Catalogue by titles / Intercountry Adoption: The Process and the Risks
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| ISS/IRC Code | COM-INTL-ADOPT ENG-031 |
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| Title | Intercountry Adoption: The Process and the Risks |
| Author | BARR Brenda |
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| Date published/issue | 00-00-1993 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
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| Type of material | Monograph |
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UNITED STATES |
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Interacial State-receiving Child-health-info Identity-adoptive |
| Free text | Undated document (post 1993). The authors, from Mercer University warn of the risks involved in intercountry adoption. Among the problems they discuss in this paper are irregularities in the adoption process where the best interests of the child are not taken into consideration; health problems of intercountry adoptees; psychosocial consequences suffered by adopted children, particularly in transracial adoptions. |
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