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Foreign Adoption - the basic issues
The issue of “Foreign Adoption”, “Overseas Adoption”,
“International Adoption”, “Intercountry Adoption”, call it
what you will or prefer, has been raised a great many times.
The common misconception of a well meaning family from the
developed world carrying a suitcase full of cash and dubious
papers to some shady third world agency and coming home with
a child wrapped in blankets seems to arise every now and
then. Probably because occasionally (and I emphasise the
word occasionally) this does indeed happen but on a great
many more occasions (and very much in the majority of cases)
the process is entirely different, well run and works
extremely efficiently.
Why do many International Governments
allow Adoptions from another Country to happen when there
are probably still a great many children within the country
who need new families. Well basically the answer is as
follows, although there are many children at home looking
for an adoptive family, there are still many children in
other countries who need homes. Adoption from abroad may be
their only opportunity to belong to a permanent family. For
humanitarian reasons, Government allow International
Adoptions to proceed where:
• the child cannot be cared for in any
suitable manner in his/her country;
• the adoption would be in the best
interests of the child and with respect to the child's
fundamental rights as recognised in international
law.....for more information, see below:
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