Adoption law and human rights: international perspectives (1st)

In recent decades, there have been many changes to adoption law and practice, such as a sharp decline in the voluntary relinquishment of children, an increase in the number consigned to public care, and an abrupt decrease in those made available on an intercountry basis.

Additionally, human rights are becoming more prominent, particularly in relation to issues such as: non-consensual adoption; the ethics of intercountry adoption; the eligibility of LGBT adopters; the impact of commercial surrogacy; and the sometimes conflicting rights of birth parents and adoptees when accessing agency birth records.

In this book, O'Halloran presents a comparative analysis of the interaction between adoption law and human rights in common law, civil law, and Asiatic traditions, while also developing a matrix of legal functions to assist in identifying and analysing areas of tension between human rights and adoption.