Catalogue by titles / Intercountry Adoption: Developments, trends and perspectives
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ISS/IRC Code | COM-INTL-ADOPT ENG-024 |
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Title | Intercountry Adoption: Developments, trends and perspectives |
Author | SELMAN Peter (Ed.) |
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Date published/issue | 00-00-2000 |
Date received | 00-00-0000 |
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Publisher | British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), Skyline House, 200 Union Street, London SE1 0LX, |
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Page | 545 |
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ISBN | 1 873868 84 7 |
Type of material | Book |
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Interacial State-receiving Child-rights Adoption-intercountry Awareness-raising Child-interest |
Free text | Collection of articles by a number of experts in the field of adoption worldwide who are concerned with the issues surrounding intercountry adoption, how it affects the children involved and how it should be carried out in their best interests and work towards upholding their rights. The book is divided into five sections looking at different aspects of intercountry adoption which give background information as a means to provoke discussions in the UK as the country moves to ratify the Hague Convention of 1993: Section I: The development of overseas adoption; Section II: Reseach into outcomes of intercountry adoption; Section III: Intercountry adoption in the UK; Section IV: A worldwide perspective: experience from other countries; Section V: Personal perspectives on intercountry adoption. |
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