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Definition of whangai in English: whangainounˈfɑːŋʌɪ mass nounNZ 1(in Maori culture) adoption of a child within an extended family. the rules for whangai varied between tribes as modifier one of the big debates over several generations has been about whangai children Example sentencesExamples - So the issue of whangai and adopted children, so far as the Adoption Act of 1955 and also the Human Rights Act are concerned, is a real issue.
- And the issues surrounding Whangai adoptions are revisited in Inside New Zealand: Whangai - Who Gets Baby?
- The Native Health Act of 1909 meant that Maori women could no longer breast feed, nor use whangai systems to adopt children.
- We had quite a discussion at the select committee about the issue of whangai, and how those people fit in.
- In respect of whangai, without a legal adoption there is still room for the tikanga of a particular tribe to apply.
- The issue with regard to whangai is very important to Maori.
- Maori people, with great anxiety, a huge amount of consultation, and a great degree of angst, thought very carefully about the process of whangai.
- We said that surely on issues of whangai, the expressions in the bill should be closely aligned to what that iwi wanted.
- I am aware we need to consider the recognition of whangai.
- As she will be aware, respective iwi have their own tikanga in terms of whangai.
- 1.1count noun A child who has been adopted within an extended family.
Timoti was a whangai and a very spoilt one at that Example sentencesExamples - For one participant being a whangai was seen to provide both benefits and tensions.
- I have never ever heard of a neglected whangai.
- Most of the whangai she interviewed "recall their homes nostalgically as happy, caring places".
- Is that definition limited strictly to whangai who are descended by blood from their original family?
- The play looks at the stresses caused by having different degrees of fluency in Maori, as the children, students and whangai of a Maori educator gather at his tangi.
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