Over the past 20 years, the growing shortage of adoptable infants
in Britain and the United States has resulted in a number of
couples acquiring their family from abroad, yet the effort needed
to acquire such a child from another country is enormous. So what
exactly are the costs, hazards and emotional difficulties involved,
and why do some couples feel that this is their only chance of
becoming adoptive parents? "Inter-Country Adoption" charts the
experiences of eight couples who between them have adopted eleven
children from South America, India and Sri Lanka who ranged in age
from four months to seven years. The main emphasis of these
first-hand accounts is on the events leading up to the decision to
adopt from abroad and on the obstacle course which followed and
which involved dealing with the authorities in Britain and in the
child's country of origin. The final two chapters are by an
academic social worker and a parliamentary campaigner who examine
the legal and ethical considerations of inter-country adoption.
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