Peter Selman
Newcastle University, School of GPS, Emeritus
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... Bojorge, Celica. 2002.Intercountry Adoptions: In the Best Interests of the Child? QUT Law & Justice Journal 2, no. 2: 26691. Bowie, Fiona (ed.). 2004. Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption. London: Rout-ledge. ... St. Paul, MN: Yeong and Yeong Book Co. Kane, Saralee. ...
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The number of children sent for intercountry adoption has grown rapidly in the last fifteen years - to a total of over 45,000 worldwide in 2004 (Selman 2007). While this has undoubtedly saved many individual children from a life in... more
The number of children sent for intercountry adoption has grown rapidly in the last fifteen years - to a total of over 45,000 worldwide in 2004 (Selman 2007). While this has undoubtedly saved many individual children from a life in institutional care, critics have raised many doubts about this movement of children asking whether it is a "global trade or
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Abstract One hundred and fifty-two women who failed to keep appointments for discussion or fitting of an IUD at a hospital clinic have been studied. Home visits were made by a social worker in an attempt to encourage the women to accept a... more
Abstract One hundred and fifty-two women who failed to keep appointments for discussion or fitting of an IUD at a hospital clinic have been studied. Home visits were made by a social worker in an attempt to encourage the women to accept a new appointment, or make ...
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Background With the growing influence of permanency planning ideology on child care services in Britain in the 1970s, several independent projects were established which demonstrated that substitute families could be found for every child... more
Background With the growing influence of permanency planning ideology on child care services in Britain in the 1970s, several independent projects were established which demonstrated that substitute families could be found for every child with any kind of disability (Argent, 1996, ...
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ABSTRACT What should a comprehensive UK policy on intercountry adoption consist of? Peter Selman looks at some of the lessons to be learned from the Netherlands and Sweden.
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Over the decades, there have been numerous trends in the formation of family for those experiencing infertility. Adoption – initially domestic but now mostly international – has long been a prevailing method, with a dual outcome of also... more
Over the decades, there have been numerous trends in the formation of family for those experiencing infertility. Adoption – initially domestic but now mostly international – has long been a prevailing method, with a dual outcome of also finding homes for parentless children. Those would-be parents with a stronger desire for genetic relatedness have turned to assisted reproductive technologies for the creation of their families. In the 21st century, capitalising on global-isation and advances in medical sciences and communication, global commercial surrogacy (GCS) is emerging as a dominant method of family formation. In seeking to publish this article in Adoption & Fostering, our primary objective was to provide its readership with an introductory look at GCS, thereby expanding an awareness of surrogacy to an audience whose work has traditionally been concerned with the care and protection of children through foster care and adoption. A secondary aim was to see where the long-standing field of adoption could potentially inform the burgeoning field of global commercial surrogacy. To achieve these objectives, we use international adoption and the adoption triangle as a framework, as we look at the similarities and differences between: (1) the adoptive and commissioning parents; (2) the birth mother and the surrogate; and (3) the adopted children and the children born of global surrogacy.
After a period of steady growth from the early 1990s, when numbers doubled from 1993 to 2004, the annual number of intercountry adoptions fell by more than fifty per cent between 2004 and 2013. The aim of this chapter is to explore this... more
After a period of steady growth from the early 1990s, when numbers doubled from 1993 to 2004, the annual number of intercountry adoptions fell by more than fifty per cent between 2004 and 2013. The aim of this chapter is to explore this decline in a global context.
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This paper reviews discussions in Thematic Area 3 at the International Forum on Intercountry Adoption & Global Surrogacy, held in the Hague in August 2014. Thematic Area 3 was concerned with the contribution of agencies to furthering of... more
This paper reviews discussions in Thematic Area 3 at the International Forum on Intercountry Adoption & Global Surrogacy, held in the Hague in August 2014. Thematic Area 3 was concerned with the contribution of agencies to furthering of the best interests of the child in intercountry adoption. There was also a consideration of the lessons that could be learned from the process of accreditation under the 1993 on oHague Convention on Intercountry Adoption (HCIA) in respect of intermediaries in international surrogacy, for which a further Hague Convention is under consideration.
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By the end of the 1980s the total number of intercountry adoptions seemed to be falling in many countries. In Sweden and the Netherlands a decline had been underway throughout the 1980s; in the United States numbers rose from 4868 in 1981... more
By the end of the 1980s the total number of intercountry adoptions seemed to be falling in many countries. In Sweden and the Netherlands a decline had been underway throughout the 1980s; in the United States numbers rose from 4868 in 1981 to 10 097 in 1987 ( ...
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This paper explores trends in ICA to and from European countries from 2003 to 2014, when the annual number of adoptions from Russia had fallen to less than 1,000 from a peak of 9,000+ in 2004 and Europe had replaced the USA as the main... more
This paper explores trends in ICA to and from European countries from 2003 to 2014, when the annual number of adoptions from Russia had fallen to less than 1,000 from a peak of 9,000+ in 2004 and Europe had replaced the USA as the main destination for children moving for intercountry adoption
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The annual number of international adoptions has fallen by more than half in the ten years from 2004 to 2013, but the number of children adopted from Africa has been rising. In 2003 five per cent of international adoptions were from... more
The annual number of international adoptions has fallen by more than half in the ten years from 2004 to 2013, but the number of children adopted from Africa has been rising. In 2003 five per cent of international adoptions were from African countries; by 2013 this had risen to 27 per cent.
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This powerpoint presentation looks at the history of intercountry adoption worldwide since the end of the Second World War, using data from receiving countries, and estimates that at least 1,000,000 intercountry adoptions had been... more
This powerpoint presentation looks at the history of intercountry adoption worldwide since the end of the Second World War, using data from receiving countries, and estimates that at least 1,000,000 intercountry adoptions had been recorded in the period 1948-2012. The presentation also reports data on adoption from South Korea provided by their Ministry of Health & Welfare.