Interlandelijke adoptie: enkele publicaties die ook te vinden zijn op de website van BCN Internat.

Love and Legislation: The International Politics of Inter-country Adoption
The article focuses on the dynamic landscape of inter-country adoption, examining a number of things that are of significance not only to each family involved with adoption, but also to the wider discourse of international affairs, and to the ethical dilemmas that can surround it. This piece underscores that while millions of children remain in need of care, adoption will not be a solution for a majority of them due to various practical, social, economic and cultural reasons. However, the author argues that when needed and appropriate, inter-country adoption can actually help to change the culture of adoption in the adoptees’ native country, so that in the longer term more children are cared for within their own communities. Read more: http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/ethics_online/0060.html 


Op-Ed: Author , EJ Graff, Argues ”Adoption Is Not a Solution for Poor Children”
This article explores some of the public debates underway related to intercountry adoption and the appropriateness of its use as response to vulnerabilities facing impoverished families. It questions and analyses the practice of adoption as the solution for the children in need of care, many of whom are living in institutions not because their parents are dead; rather, it’s because their families are too poor to support their children or have no childcare during the long days of labour work outside home to earn a living. Some simple initiatives that are believed to facilitate children to stay with their families are highlighted, such as economic strengthening for kinship caregivers and school sponsorship programs. Additionally, it speaks to the need to helping families keep their children by creating a healthy social-welfare infrastructure that assesses what kinds of help families might need to care for their children, - and if those families are unable, finding the right kind of homes for these children.
http://blog.prospect.org/ej_graff/2011/09/adoption-is-not-a-solution-for.html