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  • The future of inter-country adoption: a paradigm shift for this century

    Author(s)
    Fronek, Patricia
    Cuthbert, Denise
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Fronek, Patricia
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    The only existing international framework for inter-country adoption (ICA) is a legal one. Current legal and welfare approaches have limitations in that ICA tends to be conceptualised in individualistic terms, while strategies that prevent ICA by strengthening communities and addressing structural inequalities in the first instance are neglected and divorced from ICA practice. A vision and an overarching framework based on a socioecological approach that informs other arenas, such as health promotion, are proposed. The article concludes that the development of collaborative, intersectoral approaches, the reorientation ...
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    The only existing international framework for inter-country adoption (ICA) is a legal one. Current legal and welfare approaches have limitations in that ICA tends to be conceptualised in individualistic terms, while strategies that prevent ICA by strengthening communities and addressing structural inequalities in the first instance are neglected and divorced from ICA practice. A vision and an overarching framework based on a socioecological approach that informs other arenas, such as health promotion, are proposed. The article concludes that the development of collaborative, intersectoral approaches, the reorientation of public and private resources and international leadership from academics, legislators, policy makers, practitioners and communities are necessary for a paradigm shift for this century.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Social Welfare
    Volume
    21
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2011.00799.x
    Subject
    Political science
    Social work
    Social work not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/40957
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