International Adoption Guide

Spain has been rocked by a scandal that involves children been taken from their birthparents and given to otheres sometimes for money other times a reward gift for hard work.

The Inter Country Adoption Board (ICAB), an attached agency of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), successfully matched 12 children from Central Visayas for inter country adoption.

A developmental perspective is required when it comes to supporting adopted children and the families who take them in.

April 11, 2012 The Romanian Office for Adoptions announced that its new adoption law went into effect on April 7, 2012. The new law allows for intercountry adoptions of Romanian children by relatives of the fourth degree of kinship, the spouse of the child’s natural parent, and Romanian citizens who are habitually resident abroad.

April 11, 2012 The Romanian Office for Adoptions announced that its new adoption law went into effect on April 7, 2012. The new law allows for intercountry adoptions of Romanian children by relatives of the fourth degree of kinship, the spouse of the child’s natural parent, and Romanian citizens who are habitually resident abroad.

April 11, 2012 The Romanian Office for Adoptions announced that its new adoption law went into effect on April 7, 2012. The new law allows for intercountry adoptions of Romanian children by relatives of the fourth degree of kinship, the spouse of the child’s natural parent, and Romanian citizens who are habitually resident abroad.

On 14th, March, 2012, director-general of China Centre for Children's Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA), Zhang Shifeng and deputy director-general, Chu Xiaoying met with a visiting Ethiopian government delegation.

March 30, 2012 The Office of the Government of Laos announced on February 20, 2012, that the authorization to allow foreigners to adopt Lao children is suspended until appropriate regulations and procedures are established on intercountry adoption. Updated information will be provided as it becomes available on adoption.state.gov.

Strictures on adoption in the Muslim world make it all too easy for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to recruit child soldiers. But that may be changing, Asra Nomani writes.