Catalogue by countries / The History and Causes of Intercountry Adoptions in a "Receiving Country"
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| ISS/IRC Code | COM-INTL-ADOPT ENG-016 |
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| Title | The History and Causes of Intercountry Adoptions in a "Receiving Country" |
| Author | EISENBLATTER Peter |
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| Date published/issue | 04-00-1992 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
| Place published | PHILIPPINES |
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| Publisher | Terre des Hommes Germany |
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| Page | 16 p |
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| Type of material | Monograph |
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GERMANY |
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State-receiving Sale Adoption-intercountry Disabled Legislation-adoption Meetings Traffick Abandonment Child-interest |
| Free text | Address by Dr. Peter Eisenblatter, from Terre des hommes, Germany presented to the Symposium on Protecting Children's Rights in Intercountry Adoptions and Preventing Trafficking and Sale of Children (Philippines, April 1992). The author analyses the motives that push prospective adoptive parents to look for children in the third world, while sometimes ignoring the best interests of the children they adopt. Intercountry adoption seen as a recent mass movement which has created a situation of trafficking in "adoptable" children. Examples from the situation in Germany. The solution seen in a change in attitudes towards the problems of abandonment and the tightening up of laws governing adoption both in the countries of origin and in the receiving countries. |
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