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 Disability Among Internationally Adopted Children in the United States Rose M. Kreider, PhD and Philip N. Cohen, PhD in PEDIATRICS Vol. 124 No. 5 November 2009, pp. 1311-1318 (doi:10.1542/peds.2008-3206) |
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Another country, not my own by Hopgood, M-L. One overseas adoptee explains: Parents’ embrace of the ”home” culture can have its costs |
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Are International Adoption Critics Really Wrong? by Niels at Pound Puppy Legacy Critique of a Barthelot article. |
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Big Business in Babies: Adoption, The Child Commodities Market by Riben, M. Based on The Stork Market |
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Child Laundering and the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption: The Future and Past of Intercountry Adoption by Smolin, D. Abstract The United States ratification of the 1993 Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption became effective April 1, 2008, amidst a context of declining numbers of intercountry adoptions and increasing media attention to corruption and child trafficking in the intercountry adoption system. There is a need to sort out the connections between these events, and chart a course for the future. This article includes an extensive discussion of the work of preparation of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. The article demonstrates that concerns with child trafficking in the intercountry adoption system were a central impetus to the creation of the Convention. The article also examines the demographics of adoption, particularly reviewing the tripling of interocuntry adoptions to the United States that occurred from 1993 to 2004, and the subsequent decline. The article seeks to establish whether the Hague Convention is connected to either the rise or subsequent decline of intercountry adoptions. Finally, the article looks to the future, and describes the kinds of reforms that would be necessary to make the intercountry adoption system meet the goals of the Hague Convention. |
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Child Laundering as Exploitation: Applying Anti-Trafficking Norms to Intercountry Adoption Under the Coming Hague Regime by Smolin, D. Child laundering occurs when children are illicitly obtained by fraud, force, or funds, and then... |
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Child Laundering: How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing Children by Smolin, D. This article documents and analyzes a substantial incidence of "child laundering" within the intercountry adoption... |
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Does Opening Adoption Have an Adverse Social Impact? by Carp, E. W. This study provides an international history of the adoption reform movement in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia from 1953 to 2007. It empirically tests how safe birth parents and adopted adults are in countries that have opened their adoption records, usually birth reg- istration records, using contact preference forms and contact vetoes. The results of this investigation reveal that a vast gap exists between the fear by birth parents and adopted adults that their privacy will be invaded and their family disrupted and the reality that few or no offenses are committed. It follows that opening adoption records with contact preference forms or con- tact vetoes provides a balanced adoption disclosure system and is a viable alternative to the sealed adoption policies currently used in the vast majority of American states and Canadian provinces. |
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Feminist Lens on Adoption by Leo, K. |
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Duped by Indian adoption agency, US family cautions couples US-based Desiree and David Smolin were elated when they adopted two girls from Hyderabad. But their happiness was shortlived. Within weeks, the couple discovered that their two lovely daughters were not orphans, but victims of child trafficking. |
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Ethiopia: The Hand That Rocks the Broken Cradle (Part II) Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam on the “harvesting” and commoditization of Ethiopian children. "The documented fact is that there is a not-so-hidden cottage industry in Ethiopia that trades and traffics in children under the benign cover of charitable adoptions." Ethiomeida Feb 22, 2010 |
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Familial Legacies: Rethinking Transnational Asian Adoption in the 21st Century Condit, Kelly. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Oct 12, 2006. 2009-05-24 Abstract: In correspondence to the world’s increasing transnational movements, parents in the United States are internationally adopting children at record rates. Between 1990 and 2005, international adoption more than tripled. At a startling average, 42.75% of these children came from East or Southeast Asian countries. Although statistics may be interpreted in various ways, the adoption rates since 1990 are inarguably indicative of a historically unprecedented explosion of transnational adoption. Demographically, culturally, and politically, adoptees, like multiracial Asian Americans, are transforming the face of Asian America. Their lived experiences, as well as the impact of their presence on the racial landscape of America must be examined. Transnational adoption must also be linked to Asian American histories and cultures and to formations of race, gender, and class both within the U.S. and across the globe. Examining transnational adoption histories, cultures, and experiences is crucial to rethinking the transnational configuration that is “Asian America.” An emergent constituent of the American demographic, American Studies has paid relatively little attention to this population. While I value the excellent new work on this topic by scholars such as Toby Alice Volkman and David L. Eng, transnational adoption remains severely underexamined and undertheorized in American Studies. At the same time, Asian adoptees are too often omitted from scholarship on U.S. transracial adoption, which is largely limited to a domestic black-white racial paradigm. In response to this gap, my work offers an interdisciplinary critique of transnational Asian adoption within the context of the American family. The heterosexual nuclear family has historically symbolized ideal visions of normative white American values and citizenship. Used to socially control and manage national productions of morality and racial purity, the American family and its domestic space have historically excluded Asian Americans. For example, only with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 could non-U.S. born Asian immigrants become naturalized American citizens, and not until 2000 were anti-miscegenation laws repealed from all U.S. states. In fierce contrast, the “color-blind” institution of transnational adoption places no limitations or restrictions on incoming adoptees based on race, and following the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, transnational adoptees are automatically granted citizenship upon entry into the United States. Thinking about the historical construction of the American nuclear family, the Asian American adoptee appears to occupy a highly contested and contradictory space. The adoptee’s main function is in the completion of a historically exclusionary, white American institution. However, the system of transnational adoption is “color-blind” and the popular discourse surrounding the institution is widely supportive and encouraging. Unlike the Native and African American communities, who have publicly spoken against transracial adoption as a form of cultural “genocide,” there is no national stigma against transnational Asian adoption and the Asian American community has remained comparably silent. Socially acceptable, transnational Asian adoption is exponentially increasing. Through a deconstructive reading of the adoptee’s role in family-making, I seek to illuminate the larger function of transnational adoption in perpetuating national constructions of family, citizenship, and white hegemony. |
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Holt International’s price for children Translated by ShinWoo Kang Members of Adoptees Solidarity Korea (ASK) and KoRoot stage a performance calling for a “Day without Adoption” by placing coins in a shape of a plane to symbolize the 200 thousand children that have been sent abroad in exchange for money in the past 50 years, May 5, 2008. |
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Inside Story of an Adoption Scandal by Dohle, A. |
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Intercountry Adoption and Poverty: A Human Rights Analysis by Smolin, D. This Article explores the question of whether intercountry adoption is an effective, appropriate, or ethical... |
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Intercountry Adoption as Child Trafficking by Smolin, D. This article analyzes when intercountry adoption constitutes a form of child trafficking, particularly under international... |
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International Adoption and the Fight for Human Rights by Westra, H.W.S. Editorial: International adoption has quietly become a large, lucrative business. While international adoption agencies would no doubt like to keep it this way, adult international adoptees are now asking questions. They are participating in a debate over whose best interests the practice actually serves, or should serve: the adopter or the adoptee? Taking a critical look at the practice of international adoption, chairman of United Adoptees International Hilbrand Westra explores its disturbing overlaps with free market practices and religious justifications, and lays out solutions for practical legal reform. Westra shows the power of an emerging collective adoptee voice shaping what was once seen as an inevitable inequality. |
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INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION: Child protection or a Breach of Rights? Roelie Post AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2009 CONDUCIVE Author Roelie Post wants to distance herself from pro and anti-adoption labels and direct the discussion back to the heart of the matter: whether intercountry adoption is a child protection measure, if children have rights in their own country, and if intercountry adoption is ultimately a breach of such rights? Post ends with the crucial question: can intercountry adoption be legislated without it leading to a demand-driven child market? Romanian banned intercountry adoptions, Post will describe the experience and the consequences for other countries. |
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Meet the Parents: The Dark Side of Overseas Adoption by Carney, S. A Midwestern kid's family believes his birth parents put him up for adoption. An Indian couple claim he was kidnapped from them and sold. Who's right? |
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Prophecy, Proselytizing and Profit: Adopting Christian Soldiers by Mirah Riben Uncovers the right wing religious fundamentalist pro-adoption practices. |
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