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  • Intercountry adoption: Privilege, rights and social justice

    Author(s)
    Fronek, Patricia
    Cuthbert, Denise
    Willing, Indigo
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Fronek, Patricia
    Willing, Indigo A.
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    Intercountry adoption tends to be understood in parts – the individual child, the needs of adoptive parents, the legality of its processes, and perceived red tape. Mostly, however, the focus is the facilitation of placing a child with a prospective adoptive family, and the elimination of perceived barriers between the adoptive parents and the desired child. By failing fully to consider the whole picture concerning intercountry adoption, important issues are obscured and disempowered people remain disempowered. Resources are consequently directed toward specific, enabling aspects of intercountry adoption, a need constructed ...
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    Intercountry adoption tends to be understood in parts – the individual child, the needs of adoptive parents, the legality of its processes, and perceived red tape. Mostly, however, the focus is the facilitation of placing a child with a prospective adoptive family, and the elimination of perceived barriers between the adoptive parents and the desired child. By failing fully to consider the whole picture concerning intercountry adoption, important issues are obscured and disempowered people remain disempowered. Resources are consequently directed toward specific, enabling aspects of intercountry adoption, a need constructed by influential voices particularly where the market approach dominates.1 In that process, other considerations such as the moral or material circumstances that lead to intercountry adoption and the disempowered first parents, families and communities tend to be ignored in public commentary in the media and in adoptive parent group blogs and chatrooms.
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    Book Title
    The intercountry adoption debate: Dialogues across disciplines
    Publisher URI
    http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-intercountry-adoption-debate
    Subject
    Social Work not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/161587
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