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Download or read book Intercountry Adoptions written by Jaffe and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incidence of foreign adoptions from the nations of South America, Eastern Europe and Asia has greatly increased as a result of the drastic decrease in the number of adoptable babies from western nations. This book, written by adoption workers and legal scholars from twelve 'sending' countries, presents, for the first time, details of those countries' adoption laws and procedures as well as international agreements governing foreign adoptions. Intercountry Adoptions constitutes an important and long-awaited reference book for potential adoptive couples, child care workers, legal experts and social service agencies.