Adoption

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a second which sees intercountry adoption as being positive for all, and a third which recognizes that there are negatives as well as positives which must be considered by both the sending and receiving countries as well as by the individuals making the decision to relinquish the child for adoption or adopt cross naturally.
Opposition to intercountry adoption primarily comes from developing countries, but also from those who make class and feminist analyses. Their argument is that this is one more instance of exploitation of the poor by the rich. They argue that if the world distribution of resources were equitable, there would be fewer children who couldn’t be cared for within their country of birth than at present. Some of those making this analysis see it as a major concern that children adopted cross nationally may have a confused sense of ethnic and racial identity. They also argue that the numbers involved in cross national placements are so small that it doesn’t really help poor countries struggling to develop. The final argument in the critiques is that international adoption takes pressure off of governments to effect economic and social changes which would be of particular benefit to women and children.
Advocates of intercountry adoption, who are generally from richer countries, argue that many of the children who have been adopted by parents from Western countries would have died from malnutrition, lack of medical care, or as a consequence of war if they had not be...