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Adoption policies for each country vary widely. Information such as the age of the adoptive parents, financial status, educational level, marital status and history, number of dependent children in the house, sexual orientation, weight, psychological health, and ancestry are used by countries to determine what parents are eligible to adopt from that country.
The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (or Hague Adoption Convention) is an international convention dealing with international adoption, child laundering, and child trafficking in an effort to protect those involved from the corruption, abuses, and exploitation which sometimes accompanies international adoption. [1]
Adoptee rights are the legal and social rights of adopted people relating to their adoption and identity. These rights frequently center on access to information which is kept sealed within closed adoptions, but also include issues relating to intercultural or international adoption, interracial adoption, and coercion of birthparents.
International adoptions declined by 93% from 2004 to 2022. A 2023 State Department report showed that there were only 1,275 intercountry adoptions , down from 1,517 the year prior.
Adoptees have long pushed back against the narrative that they should be grateful, but now their message has greater visibility because of social media and the growth in adoptee-led organizations ...
The Netherlands will no longer permit its citizens to adopt children from foreign countries, a Dutch government minister said on Tuesday. Minister for Legal Protection Franc Weerwind added that ...
David Mark Smolin is a professor of law at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama where he is the Harwell G. Davis Chair in Constitutional Law, [1] director for The Center for Children, Law, and Ethics, former director of the Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics, [2] and faculty advisor for the Law, Science and Technology Society.
After China announced earlier this month that it is suspending international adoptions, Maze Felix, a 28-year-old Chinese adoptee, said they were struck with a heady mix of “anger, relief, grief ...