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The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption: The Significance of the Indian Adoption Scandals
Seton Hall Law Review (2005)
  • David M. Smolin
Abstract

This article summarizes international law, and the law of India and the United States, relevant to intercountry adoption. The article then presents extensive information and analysis of a major series of adoption scandals in Andhra Pradesh, India. The article uses this analysis of law and a major series of adoption scandals to present the "two sides of intercountry adoption:" positively, as a humanitarian act, and negatively as a form of child trafficking. The weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the intercountry adoption system that led to the Indian adoption scandals are extensively analyzed.

Keywords
  • Adoption,
  • Intercountry Adoption,
  • International Adoption,
  • Child Trafficking,
  • Child Laundering,
  • Human Rights,
  • India
Publication Date
June, 2005
Publisher Statement
35 Seton Hall Law Review 403 (2005)
Citation Information
David M. Smolin. "The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption: The Significance of the Indian Adoption Scandals" Seton Hall Law Review Vol. Thirty-Five Iss. Number Two (2005)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_smolin/2/