Beschreibung:
Human rights have increasingly come to bear on adoption in relation to issues such as the ethical dilemmas inherent in intercountry adoption and the sometimes conflicting rights of adoptees and birth parents in relation to accessing agency birth records. This book provides a comparative analysis of the interaction between adoption law and human rights in common law, civil law and Asian countries. Key areas where international human rights and adoption law now intersect are analysed and then the book goes on to look at common law and civil law countries in order to identify, assess and differentiate the extent of national human rights and adoption law compatibility.
1. Introduction; 2: Chapter One: Human Rights and the Concepts, Principles and Social Construct of Adoption; 3. Chapter Two: The Domestic Legal Framework; 4. Chapter Three: The International Legal Framework and Intercountry Adoption; 5: Chapter Four: The Adoption Process, Human Rights and the ECtHR; 6: Chapter Five: England; 7: Chapter Six: The US; 8: Chapter Seven: France; 9: Chapter Eight: Germany; 10: Chapter Nine: Japan; 11: Chapter Ten: China; 12: Chapter Eleven: Adoption and Human Rights: National Tensions and International Standards; 13: Conclusion.