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| Document Title: | The Children Money Can Buy. |
| Personal Author: | Moody, Anne., |
| Publication Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | This book examines the modern history of adoption and draws on the personal experiences as an adoptive parent and director of Adoption Connections in Bainbridge Island, Washington, to explore foster care, adoption, international adoption, and transracial adoption. The first section of the book focuses on the years the writer spent as a child welfare worker. Chapters consider why people become social workers, service plans, the characteristics of families involved in the foster care system, the cycle of dysfunction, and the termination of parental rights. The second part of the book focuses on personal experiences with a large adoption agency that handled...more |
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| Document Title: | Financial Ethics in Intercountry Adoption: Navigating Four Areas of Risk. |
| Personal Author: | Mraz, Sarah. |
| Publication Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | This brief explains the responsibilities of adoption service providers (ASPs) in ensuring international adoptions are compliant with federal financial compliance regulations. It notes that while many of the fees and payments required in any intercountry adoption process are easily identifiable (foreign central authority dossier review and processing, USCIS, visas, etc.), there are other financial components in adoption processes that are harder to understand and manage. These include gift giving, travel expenses, compensation of staff or fees for services, and accounting and processing of third-party fees. Information for complying with regulations surrounding these financial components is provided and suggestions are made for...more |
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| Document Title: | International Adoption: A Global Challenge (Chapter 19 in The Routledge Handbook of Global Child Welfare). |
| Personal Author: | Kim, Oh Myo.,Kim, JaeRan.,Tarnowski, Randy. |
| Publication Year: | 2017 |
| Abstract: | A history of intercountry adoption is provided and the experiences of South Korea, Guatemala, and Ethiopia are described. The push factors that increased international adoption are discussed, including war, poverty, the AIDS pandemic, and policy decisions, as well as the pull factors, including the ideology of Christian Americanism, economic growth and the creation of global family-making in the United States. Recommendations are made for intercountry adoption programs. 48 references. |
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| Document Title: | Rescue, Refugees, Orphans, and Restitution (Chapter 1 in From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers). |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Bromfield, Nicole F. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This chapter provides an overview of the early beginnings of intercountry adoption, controversies over race and transracial adoption, the impact of World War II and a conception of refugee children, the efforts of Eleanor Roosevelt to help rescue the children of war, and the subsequent adoption of children from South Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, China, Cambodia, and Haiti. The use of financial restitution for those who have experienced the loss of their child as a result of illicit adoption practices is also discussed. 1 table and numerous references. |
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| Document Title: | Poverty, Birth Families, Legal, and Social Protection (Chapter 3 in From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers). |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Bromfield, Nicole F. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This chapter considers the impact of poverty on adoption and discusses birth mothers and domestic adoption in the United States, adoptions in the Marshall Islands, India, and South Africa, and the passage of The Hague Convention on Intercounty Adoption (HCIA) to provide social protections for orphaned and vulnerable children and their families who interface with intercountry adoption. 1 table and 47 references. |
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| Document Title: | Responding to Illegal Adoptions: A Professional Handbook. |
| Corporate Author: | International Social Service. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This report draws on a 2012 study on illegal intercountry adoption cases to provide professionals information on illegal adoption and offer guidelines for responding to illegal adoption cases. It is structured around four main chapters, each focusing on the potential responses available to a finding of an illegal adoption from a specific standpoint: legal, psychosocial, social and political. Personal testimonies are woven into the chapters, along with case studies to offer additional guidance and jurisprudence reasoning for undertaking other possible litigation. Likewise, multiple promising practices illustrating initiatives to address potential difficulties successfully, creatively and sustainably are provided. Following an introductory chapter,...more |
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| Document Title: | Child-Protection Systems of Care to Ensure Child Rights in Family Support and Adoption: India and the United States (Chapter 5 in From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers). |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Bromfield, Nicole F. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This chapter uses case studies of India and the United States to discuss how child-protection systems of care can ensure child rights in family support and adoption. It is explained that the United States has a well-established child-protection system whereas India has an emerging child-protection system. The scandals in India’s intercountry adoption system are discussed, as well as recent improvements to find missing and abducted children and to increase child protection. 1 figure, 1 table, and 32 references. |
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| Document Title: | Why Did International Adoption Suddenly End? |
| Personal Author: | Christopher, Ben. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This report explores the decline in international adoption, reasons for the decline, and the best interests of adoptable children. It begins by noting that 2004 was a record-breaking year of international adoptions in the United States but that since then the number of international adoptions has fallen with 2015 being the lowest figure since the early 1980s, a 75% decline in just over one decade. A brief history of conflicts and disasters that fostered international adoptions is then provided. The impact of supply side constraints is explained, including the imposition of restrictions and adoption moratoriums in South Korea, Cambodia, Guatemala, Vietnam,...more |
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| Document Title: | The Politics of Adoption From Romania to Russia and What We Know About Children Languishing in Residential Care Facilities (Chapter 2 in From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers). |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Bromfield, Nicole F. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This chapter investigates the politics of adoption from Romania to Russian and reviews research findings on children languishing in residential care facilities. The impact of Stalinism, the fall of the Soviet Union, and public awareness of institutionalized children on international adoptions are explained, as well as the impact of re-homing, abuse, and death of Russian adoptees in the United States on the institution of a Russia moratorium on international adoptions. 1 table and 48 references. |
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| Document Title: | Foreign Adoption in Ireland: A Case Study of the Irish-American Adoptions, 1947–1952. |
| Personal Author: | O'Keefe, Brian. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | The Irish-American adoptions were a revolutionary way of dealing with Ireland’s ‘problem of the illegitimate child’. Ireland had long been promoted as a Catholic, and thus, a morally pure country. Having a child out of wedlock often resulted in the mother and child being shunned by their family and community and having little choice but to seek the help of church-run institutions. These institutions began facilitating illegal extraterritorial adoptions in 1947 to relieve the mounting pressures as those seeking their help continued to grow annually. These adoptions were heavily concerned with protecting the religious faith of the child, and this often...more |
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| Document Title: | From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers. |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Bromfield, Nicole F. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This text presents a detailed history of intercountry adoption and surrogacy, shares findings from research involving surrogate mothers in the United States and India, and considers human rights concerns and policy implications. The book begins with an overview of the early beginnings of intercountry adoption, the impact of World War II, and the adoption of children from South Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, China, Cambodia, and Haiti. Chapter 2 investigates the politics of adoption from Romania to Russian and reviews research findings on children languishing in residential care facilities. Chapter 3 considers the impact of poverty on adoption and the passage of...more |
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| Document Title: | Guatemala: Violence Against Women and Force, Fraud, and Coercion, Including Child Abduction Into Adoption and A New System Emerging (Chapter 4 in From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers). |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Bromfield, Nicole F. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This chapter discusses the rise in adoptions in Guatemala during the mid-2000s, the prevalence of adoption fraud and violence against women, and pressure from human rights organizations to confront illicit adoptions that led to an intercountry adoption moratorium. Information is provided on the corrupt system of intercountry adoption, historical factors that impacted Guatemala and the human rights catastrophe, the involvement of organized crime and human-trafficking dynamics in children abducted for adoption, and the impact of poverty on the vulnerability of birth mothers. 2 tables and numerous references. |
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| Document Title: | "Sins of the Saviors": Africa As the Final Frontier (Chapter 6 in From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers). |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Bromfield, Nicole F. |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This chapter discusses rising adoptions in Africa, problems in Ethiopian adoptions, the lack of growth in intercountry adoptions despite of celebrity adoptions in Malawi, the adoption of children in Liberia by evangelical Christians, and challenges in adoptions in Uganda and the rise of residential care institutions, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kenya. Recommendations for when states should not allow intercountry adoption are identified and the rehoming of African adoptees is noted. Numerous references. |
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| Document Title: | Creating Systems That Protect Children: Elements of Success. (Chapter 27 in The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines). |
| Personal Author: | Harris, Rebecca.,DiFilipo, Tom. |
| Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | This chapter outlines the necessary support elements that enable the creation of a strong and sustainable child welfare system, such as appropriate funding, proficient staff, well-defined laws, proper monitoring, and transparent processes. Ways in which welfare systems can protect the best interest of the child and families are also discussed, and the broken welfare systems of Columbia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, and the United States are scrutinized to illustrate how a fragmented system that focuses only on intercountry adoption leads to unethical practices. 63 references. |
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| Document Title: | From Angelina (to Madonna) to Zoe's Ark: What Are the 'A-Z' Lessons for Intercountry Adoptions in Africa? (Chapter 25 in The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines). |
| Personal Author: | Mezmur, Benyam D. |
| Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | This chapter discusses tough issues raised by three highly publicized African intercountry adoption (ICA) cases: Angelina Jolie’s adoption of a baby from Ethiopia; Madonna’s adoption of a child from Malawi; and criminal charges that the country of Chad brought against French citizens who attempted to take a group of African children to Europe (“Zoe’s Ark”). It explains the domestic laws of some African nations do not adequately address ICA issues and need clearer standards to ensure that the children who are being adopted are indeed orphans. 5 references. |
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| Document Title: | Sanctioned Government Intervention, "Misguided Kindness,: and Child Abduction Activities of U. S. Citizens in the Midst of Disaster: Haiti's Past and its Future as a Nation Subscribed to the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption (Chapter 24 in The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines). |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Armistead, Lucy.,Monico, Carmen. |
| Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | This chapter explains that days after the Haiti Earthquake struck, the United States government created a new humanitarian parole program which expedited intercountry adoption (ICA) of Haitian orphans. It contends that this program, coupled with the chaos of the natural disaster, created complex post-adoption adjustment issues for the children. Child rights as a framework for the clarity of appropriate intervention are discussed. 86 references. |
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| Document Title: | Intercountry Adoption, Policies, Practices, and Outcomes, by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi (Eds.): Book Review. |
| Personal Author: | Hoksbergen, Rene A. C. |
| Publication Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | This chapter reviews “Intercountry Adoption, Policies, Practices, and Outcomes”, a book that discusses main aspects, developments, and changes in intercountry adoption (ICA). Statistical information is provided, as well as policies and regulations in ICA, sending country perspectives, outcomes for ICA, outcomes of medical research and of cognitive competence among adoptees, issues concerning ethics and organization of ICA, and ways to improve ICA. 7 references. |
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| Document Title: | Guide to an Ethical Adoption. |
| Corporate Author: | Summit Church Orphan Care Ministry. |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | Intended for adoptive families of The Summit Church, this guide is designed to prompt careful ethical consideration before the adoption process is complete. It begins by explaining the Hague Convention established in 1993 to help govern ethical intercountry adoption and then explains key steps families should take to ensure they are on the pathway to ethical domestic or international adoption. Red flags that families should take note of are identified and the ethical parameters for applying for a matching grant from the church are discussed. Appendices list questions every international adoptive parent should ask along with favorable answers and red flag...more |
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| Document Title: | Toward a More Ethical Adoption Process in Korea: The Special Adoption Law and the Signing of the Hague. |
| Personal Author: | Heit, Shannon. |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | The Special Adoption Law revisions, along with Korea's subsequent signing of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption on May 24, 2013, bring Korea's adoption program closer to meeting international human rights standards and helps to prevent many of the violations that have plagued Korean adoption from being repeated in the future. |
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| Document Title: | Beyond a Two-Tier Service? Preparation and Assessment in Intercountry Adoption in the UK. |
| Personal Author: | Hoffman, Katie. |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | Intercountry adoption (ICA) in the UK has historically been a small-scale practice, ?tolerated? at best, virtually unregulated and arguably privatised in nature. With the primary purpose of enabling the ratification of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 also aimed to place ICA on equal footing with domestic adoption by applying to it the adoption procedures and services prescribed by the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and its subsequent regulations. Taking into consideration factors such as the over-burdened national care system, inadequate policy provisions, tensions between ideological support...more |
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| Document Title: | The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption. |
| Personal Author: | Joyce, Kathryn. |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | This book explores the impact of the Christian evangelical movement on adoption. It argues that adoption is a new front in the culture wars: a test of pro-life bona fides, a way for born again Christians to reinvent compassionate conservatism on the global stage, and a means to fulfill the "Great Commission" mandate to evangelize the nations. Chapters discuss how conservative evangelicals control much of the adoption industry through an infrastructure of adoption agencies, ministries, political lobbying groups, and publicly-supported crisis pregnancy centers which convince women not just to choose life but to choose adoption. The text describes conservative Christians presiding...more |
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| Document Title: | [Christian Adoption and the Christian Orphan Care Movement] (Special Issue of Journal of Christian Legal Thought). |
| Corporate Author: | Institute for Christian Legal Studies. |
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | This journal is designed to equip and encourage legal professionals to seek and study biblical truth as it related to law, the practice of law, and legal institutions. This issue focuses on Christian adoption and the orphan care movement and explores whether the spiritual and theological analysis undergirding the evangelical adoption and orphan care movement is erroneous and produces practices that are sinful and exploitative. The first article highlights issues related to the unwed mother, race, and intercountry adoption, which provide important contexts for developing Christian perspectives on adoption. Following articles consider: the New Testament's focus on the care of widows...more |
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| Document Title: | The Decline in Intercountry Adoptions and New Practices of Global Surrogacy: Global Exploitation and Human Rights Concerns. |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Bromfield, Nicole Footen. |
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | Intercountry adoption (ICA) has declined significantly since 2004. Now with fewer options for family building with a healthy child or infant via ICA, global surrogacy appears to be replacing the practice in some cases. This article presents a brief history of ICA and ethical dilemmas and human rights concerns and explores global surrogacy, starting with surrogacy practices in India. It then considers the new and emerging practice of surrogacy in Guatemala, with concerns about informed consent in the context of poverty and human rights abuses, including human trafficking and violence against women. (Author abstract) |
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| Document Title: | Stuck: Every Child Deserves a Family. |
| Corporate Author: | Both Ends Burning. |
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | This 82-minute documentary tells the personal, real-life stories of children and parents navigating a roller-coaster of bureaucracy on their journeys through the international adoption system. The lives of four children are followed from orphanages in their native countries to their homes with families in the United States. The challenges the families face and their intense hope and disappointment are shared. The film highlights the power of human love and the inexplicable connection between parent and child, even when separated by thousands of miles and seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Materials accompany the DVD and include information on the Both Ends Burning organization that...more |
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| Document Title: | Haiti Adoption, Present And Future. |
| Personal Author: | Frey, Maya. |
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | This article discusses the health of Haitian orphans and the length of the Haitian adoption process. The complications that signing the Hague Adoption Convention would cause for the country is explained, including the lack of a postal system or national birth registry that would prohibit a Hague-compliant process and cause adoption to the U.S. to cease. |
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| Document Title: | In an Era of Reform: A Review of Social Work Literature on Intercountry Adoption. |
| Personal Author: | Rotabi, Karen Smith.,Bunkers, Kelley McCreery. |
| Publication Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: | Intercountry adoption (ICA) is a relatively common practice. Since its contemporary conception during the Second World War, approximately one million children have been adopted internationally. Controversy surrounding ICA includes ideas about human rights and notions of child rescue in the context of major reform to prevent child sales and abduction under the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. Social work, as a discipline, is a central player in ICA practices, and at least, one historian asserts that social work academic literature is scant on the topic of problematic practice and reforms. A review of the social work literature was conducted, and four...more |
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| Document Title: | Reestablishing the Humanitarian Approach to Adoption: The Legal and Social Change Necessary to End the Commodification of Children. |
| Personal Author: | Herrmann, Katherine. |
| Publication Year: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | This article focuses on the consequences resulting from the commodification of children, aiming to extinguish the fallacies and misconceptions upon which such an adoption market is based. Part I identifies the direct role prospective adoptive parents have had in increasing the popularity of international adoption -- particularly adoption of children under the age of five. Part II examines procedural restrictions inherent in the domestic adoption process in comparison to international adoption methods. Part III evaluates the potential for corruption created by an unnecessarily discriminatory domestic adoption process and the prevalence of adoption agencies unconcerned with the best interests of orphaned children....more |
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| Document Title: | Ethics. |
| Personal Author: | Armistead, A. Lucy. |
| Publication Year: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | This article notes the unethical practices of some agencies involved in international adoption, and emphasizes the need for prospective adoptive parents to diligently research any agency and country they are considering before signing a contract. Suggestions are offered for researching an agency and program, including researching agency licensure, googling key agency people, joining listservs or groups online to ask about the agency, finding people who have used the agency, asking the agency for examples of problematic cases and how they have handled them, researching the adoption process in the country, contacting the embassy overseas, and comparing agencies that work in the...more |
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| Document Title: | A Case for Ethical Intercountry Adoption. |
| Personal Author: | Zappala, Marc.,Johnson, Chuck. |
| Publication Year: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | This brief begins by reviewing the history of intercountry adoption in the United States before answering critics of intercountry adoption that charge the demand among Western couples for healthy infants is far greater than the number of healthy infants available for adoption abroad. The role of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption in ensuring ethical adoption practices is then explained, and recommendations for self-policing on the part of international adoption agencies are discussed. The brief concludes that the implementation of the Hague Convention by more countries and increased self-policing on the part of...more |
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| Document Title: | Brief Note: Intercountry Adoptions and Domestic Home Study Practices: SAFE and the Hague Adoption Convention [Special Issue of International Social Work, September 2009].) |
| Personal Author: | Crea, Thomas M. |
| Publication Year: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | In April 2008, the US government began the implementation of the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (HCPIL, 1993). As in domestic adoptions, a key component of intercountry adoptions (ICAs) through the Hague Convention involves the approval of a family through a formal home study process to assess the suitability of families to adopt (USDS, 2008). Hague Convention regulations, however, specify a central authority by which adoption agencies are approved to conduct home studies. The formalization of processes for ICAs to ensure ethical and professional practices in the USA highlights the variability of home study...more |
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| Document Title: | The Stork Market: America's Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry. |
| Personal Author: | Riben, Mirah. |
| Publication Year: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | This book explores unethical adoption policies and practices in the United States. It begins by discussing the history of adoption in America, adoption reform, and the history of corruption in adoption. Chapter 2 debunks myths that have been created to rationalize adoption as it is currently practiced, and Chapter 3 emphasizes the need for members of the adoption triad to relate respectfully towards one another. Chapter 4 discusses how capitalism and corruption shape adoption, the cottage industry that has arisen to supply babies to adoptive parents, and the lack of regulations that enables the buying of babies. Following chapters explore: international...more |
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| Document Title: | Intercountry Adoption and Poverty: A Human Rights Analysis. |
| Personal Author: | Smolin, David M. |
| Publication Year: | 2007 |
| Abstract: | This Article explores the question of whether intercountry adoption is an effective, appropriate, or ethical response to poverty in developing nations. As a matter of methodology, this fundamental question of adoption ethics is explored through the lens of international human rights law. This Article specifically argues that, where the birth parents live under or near the international poverty standard of $1 per day, family preservation assistance must be provided or offered as a condition precedent for accepting a relinquishment that would make the child eligible for intercountry adoption. (Author abstract) |
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| Document Title: | Adoption: At What Cost?: For An Ethical Responsibility of Receiving Countries in Intercountry Adoption. |
| Personal Author: | Lammerant, Isabelle.,Hofstetter, Marlène. |
| Publication Year: | 2007 |
| Abstract: | This report highlights the ethical responsibilities of countries who are receiving children through international adoption. It presents the results of a comparative study of the adoption practices and legislations in six European receiving countries: Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Norway, and Switzerland. The report begins with a position paper that explores the rights and reality of adoptable children in the world and practices of receiving European countries. Criticisms on the impact of the Hague Convention are discussed, as well as the abuses in private adoption, and the need for professional standards, assessment, and verification methods for accredited bodies. The second part of...more |
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| Document Title: | Overcoming Religious Objections to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. |
| Personal Author: | Smolin, David M. |
| Publication Year: | 2006 |
| Abstract: | This essay notes that the United States is virtually the only nation that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), describes the objections to the CRC commonly mentioned by some religious conservatives, and then suggests the kinds of reservations, understandings, and declarations that could logically overcome these objections. 73 references. |
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| Document Title: | The Rights of the Child in Domestic and Intercountry Adoption: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for Practice. |
| Corporate Author: | International Social Service. American Branch. |
| Publication Year: | 2004 |
| Abstract: | This document sets forth international adoption ethics and principles developed by the International Resource Centre for the Protection of Children in Adoption. Section 1 emphasizes the need for the child to be the starting point in the process leading up to adoption and stresses that adoption must be embodied in a global policy on the children and the family composed of an array of measures. Included principles state that priority must go to allowing children to be raised in their own family and that poverty alone should not be a criterion for severing a child's bonds with his/her birth family. In...more |
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| Document Title: | Ethics in Contemporary American Adoption Practice. |
| Personal Author: | Babb, L. A. |
| Publication Year: | 2001 |
| Abstract: | This chapter discusses the values, ethics, and standards in contemporary American adoption practice that affect infant, older-child, and international adoptions. The text reviews the historical antecedents of current values in adoption and the standards that currently exist. Research findings from a study of ethical codes of conduct that influence adoption practice are highlighted. The project found that the following standards were common among codes of ethics: the role of the adoption professional in society, client-employee relations, non-discrimination, diligence and due care, communication, objectivity, fees, definition of best interests of the child, contractual relationships, and confidentiality. The effects of ethics codes on...more |
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| Document Title: | Clinical and Practice Issues in Adoption: Bridging the Gap Between Adoptees Placed as Infants and as Older Children. |
| Personal Author: | Groza, V.,Rosenberg, K. F. |
| Publication Year: | 2001 |
| Abstract: | This book provides a research-based perspective of social work treatment issues for adoptees placed as infants and as older children. The text addresses family formation issues, abandonment and separation, identity development, and attachment, as well as shared identity and search and reunion issues. Differences and similarities between adoptees placed at various life stages are highlighted. The book also examines considerations for adoption support, ethical challenges and values in adoption practice, and treatment of the adoption triad. The treatment needs of children placed in transracial and intercountry adoptions are discussed. Numerous references, 1 table. |
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| Document Title: | Maintaining Standards: The Role of EurAdopt. |
| Personal Author: | Sterky, K. |
| Publication Year: | 2000 |
| Abstract: | EurAdopt is an organization of non-profit intercountry adoption agencies in Europe that promotes subsidiarity and the best interest of the child; ethical practice; collaboration between government and authorized agencies; information dissemination; advocacy; and the ratification of the 1993 Hague Convention. It has 26 member agencies from 13 countries. Primary members are non-governmental agencies that are in the best position to provide mediation because of their independence from government structures and because they can coordinate adoptions from the same country. In addition to basic ethical rules, such as respect for laws and a prohibition on coercion of the birth mother, EurAdopt is...more |
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| Document Title: | Intercountry Adoption: Global Trade or Global Gift? |
| Personal Author: | Triseliotis, J. |
| Publication Year: | 2000 |
| Abstract: | This article contends that a significant part of intercountry adoption lacks legal, moral, or professional legitimacy. Since the end of World War II, intercountry adoption has evolved from being a predominantly humanitarian response to natural calamities and the destruction caused by wars, to becoming a quest for children for those wishing to create a family or expand one. In the process of doing so, a part of intercountry adoption has become a trade in children, with scant regard paidto children's rights as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The 1993 Hague Convention has made...more |
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| Document Title: | The Market Forces in Adoption. //Adoption and Ethics//. |
| Personal Author: | Freundlich, M. |
| Publication Year: | 2000 |
| Abstract: | The second volume in a series of books about the ethical implications of adoption highlights the economic factors that influence the adoption process and adoption trends. The text explores the role of money, accountability, regulation, and the differences in the resources of birth and adoptive parents. These issues are relevant especially for the adoption of infants, international adoptions, and the adoption of foster children. Adoption agencies are being operated like businesses, rather than as services for children who need a permanent home. The market forces of supply and demand have increased the competition for infants, as well as the costs related...more |
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| Document Title: | Intercountry Adoption in the UK: Towards an Ethical Foreign Policy. |
| Personal Author: | Kirton, D. |
| Publication Year: | 2000 |
| Abstract: | This chapter explores the ethical implications of intercountry transracial adoption and the level of support provided to children adopted from other countries. Intercountry transracial adoptions have similar consequences to domestic transracial adoptions regarding concerns about the racial and ethnic identity of the child, and the sensitivity of the adoptive family to the culture and values of the country of origin. However, intercountry transracial adoptees are affected more significantly because they live farther from their community of origin and have fewer opportunities to experience their cultural traditions. Proponents of intercountry adoption assert that the benefits outweigh problems with identity development. However, the...more |