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Intercountry Adoption: Society's responsibilities to children adopted into cultures other than their own

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

R.A.C. Hoksbergen
R.A.C. Hoksbergen*
Affiliation:
Adoption Research Center at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He visited Australia toward the end of 1988. This paper was presented to a seminar in Perth and the International Conference on Adoption and Permanent Care held in Melbourne in November 1988.
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When we discuss and think about responsibilities to intercountry adopted children, we have to answer several questions first:

– Responsibility to whom? What are the special characteristics of the persons or groups involved? How big will this responsibility be?

and

– Is it, quantitively speaking, an important phenomenon?

I will answer the second and easiest question first.

How many intercountry adopted children arrive each year in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Great Britain, other European countries, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada?

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , 1988 , pp. 3 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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