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Intercountry Adoption Numbers Drop Again
The U.S. State Department’s Annual Report on Intercountry Adoption (for Fiscal Year 2011) shows a total of 9,320 incoming intercountry adoptions and 73 outgoing intercountry adoptions. The countries of origin from which the largest numbers of children came to the United States were China (2589), Ethiopia (1727), Russia (970), South Korea (736) and Ukraine (632). These [...]
Test for Violence Against Women Law in Afghanistan
Alissa J. Rubin and Rod Nordland have reported in the New York Times on the arrest of four men for an acid attack committed against the wife and three daughters of a man who had refused a marriage proposal for one of the daughters. See “Four Afghan Men Held in Acid Attack on Family” (NYT 12-9-11). [...]
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
The December 2011 issue of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family is available online; articles include a very thought-provoking article by Peter Hayes on The Legality and Ethics of Independent Intercountry Adoption Under the Hague Convention, which argues against the movement to eliminate independent intercountry adoption under the 1993 Hague Adoption Convention. [...]
New Issue: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
Online access to the August 2011 issue of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family is available here. Articles include: Normann Witzleb, Marriage as the ‘Last Frontier’? Same-Sex Relationship Recognition in Australia; Maria Eriksson, Contact, Shared Parenting, and Violence: Children as Witnesses of Domestic Violence in Sweden; Ali Reda Bariklou, The Wife’s Right [...]
