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Adoption

Adoption and Human Rights

Does international adoption by American families break any human right laws?

10,000 international adoptions to American families occur each year
-majority from American Adoption Agencies
Children's most basic human right is to grow up in a family
Is the child and object of a business transition?

Article 3: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."
Adoptive children can not know the information of their birth parents. They do not have security of person because they were given to strangers for adoption

o Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Are these children bought?

International Human Rights Project

I would like to research adoption and how that fits into human rights. I have read a lot about people who think adoption is going against many human rights, but isn't a child's right to family so much more important? I would like to look at different arguments and figure out which is more important- that a child stay in orphan, but stay in his own country, or that a child has a safe home and family.

Debate of Adoption and Human Rights
http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/international-law-and-human-rights/international-adoption-human-rights-position

http://www.amfor.net/humanrights.html


Is it human right for a child to be in a family? Or to stay in their country?

Some argue- it goes against their right of security
-because they can not access the information about their birth family