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Intercountry Adoption

Intercountry Adoption LEGAL INTERSECTIONS Forecasts and Forebodings Joan Heifetz Hollinger The number of intercountry adoptions by United States citizens has nearly tripled since 1988 and is likely to exceed 23,000 in calendar year 2004. At least 13% of the 2.1 million adopted children of all ages living in the United States with their adoptive parents in 2000 were foreign born. A much larger and steadily increasing percentage of younger adopted children are foreign born. Of the 42,000 adopted children less than twelve months old living with their U.S. adoptive parents in 2000, nearly 25% were admitted to this country through “orphan” immigrant visas. In striking contrast to the late 1980s, when nearly 30% of foreign born adoptees came from South Korea, more than 50% now come from mainland China and Russia–6,800 from China in FY 2003 and nearly 7,000 from Russia and other former Soviet countries. The United States is primarily a “receiving” country with far more adoptees from “sending” countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central and South America emigrating to this country than to any other receiving country, and perhaps more than to all other receiving countries combined. A lesser known, but intriguing, aspect of the U.S. role in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adoption Quarterly Taylor & Francis

Intercountry Adoption

Hollinger, Joan Heifetz
Adoption Quarterly , Volume 8 (1): 20 – Jul 1, 2004
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Intercountry Adoption

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LEGAL INTERSECTIONS Forecasts and Forebodings Joan Heifetz Hollinger The number of intercountry adoptions by United States citizens has nearly tripled since 1988 and is likely to exceed 23,000 in calendar year 2004. At least 13% of the 2.1 million adopted children of all ages living in the United States with their adoptive parents in 2000 were foreign born. A much larger and steadily increasing percentage of younger adopted children are foreign born. Of the 42,000 adopted children less than...
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LEGAL INTERSECTIONS Forecasts and Forebodings Joan Heifetz Hollinger The number of intercountry adoptions by United States citizens has nearly tripled since 1988 and is likely to exceed 23,000 in calendar year 2004. At least 13% of the 2.1 million adopted children of all ages living in the United States with their adoptive parents in 2000 were foreign born. A much larger and steadily increasing percentage of younger adopted children are foreign born. Of the 42,000 adopted children less than twelve months old living with their U.S. adoptive parents in 2000, nearly 25% were admitted to this country through “orphan” immigrant visas. In striking contrast to the late 1980s, when nearly 30% of foreign born adoptees came from South Korea, more than 50% now come from mainland China and Russia–6,800 from China in FY 2003 and nearly 7,000 from Russia and other former Soviet countries. The United States is primarily a “receiving” country with far more adoptees from “sending” countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central and South America emigrating to this country than to any other receiving country, and perhaps more than to all other receiving countries combined. A lesser known, but intriguing, aspect of the U.S. role in

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Published: Jul 1, 2004

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