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Article: Intercountry adoption: a global problem or a global solution?
- Article from:
- Journal of International Affairs
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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"The US is unique amongst developed states in preferring private adoption, a position that Katz associates with the American bias towards market mechanisms and preference for individual autonomy over state regulation.
Adoption involves the legal, permanent transfer of a child from the birth parent or parents to new caregivers. In intercountry adoption, this transfer occurs across an international border. The child usually moves to a new country, to parents of different race, culture and language from the birth family, and acquires a new nationality. The child's new identity replaces his or her original one. Adoption, therefore, it is appropriate to say involves ...