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International Adoption Guide
- Adoption Home
- Before adopting
- Adoption process
- Congratulations!
- The Process
- Paperwork
- Children Come First
- Country Guidelines
- China
- Ethiopia
- India
- Pakistan
- Russia
- Poland
- Kyrgyzstan
- Uganda
- Designated List of Countries
- Bulgaria
- Ministry of Justice
- Conditions and Procedures
- The registers of children and adoptive parents
- Accredited Adoption Agencies
- Role of Accredited Adoption Agencies
- Register of children available for adoption
- Prospective Parents Register
- Family Code
- Family Code on Inter-country Adoption
- Special Needs Adoption
- Statistics of Children adopted from Bulgaria
- Bulgaria and the Hague Convention
- Guidelines for Inter-country adoption
- Statistics on Matching by Adoption Council
- Criteria used when considering prospective parents
- Legal Procedure for Meeting Your Child
- Bulgarian Adoption Agencies
- Romania
- Colombia
- Vietnam
- Sri Lanka
- Kazakhstan
- South Africa
- Be Ready
- Stage One: First phone call to Certificate of Eligibility
- The Adoption Agency
- The social worker
- What does the social worker need to know?
- Medical Checks
- The first telephone call
- Initial consultation
- Preparation Course
- The Homestudy
- Preparation for the Home Study
- The Homestudy in a Nutshell
- Emotional effects of Homestudy process
- Aims of the Homestudy
- The social workers interview technique
- References
- The make up of the Homestudy Form
- Loss
- Elderly Parents
- Financial considerations
- Understanding of your potential child
- Your Life History
- Negative Events
- Experience of Looking after Children
- Formal Application
- Confidentiality
- Race and Nationality
- Topics covered in Part 1
- Matching considerations
- Personal and Family Profile
- Family children lifestyle
- Post adoption considerations
- If adopting a disabled child
- Social workers assessment
- Applicant Declaration
- Health
- Police Checks
- Home Study Report
- The Panel
- Support groups
- Certificate of Eligibility
- Independent Review Mechanism
- Specific Questions and Answers
- Stage Two: Suitability to agreed Match
- Academic papers
- Children Need International adoption
- Researchers Investigating International Adoption
- INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION: THE CHILD'S STORY
- Study finds how child abuse affects the brain
- Outcomes of Romanian adopted children
- Parent Cooperation Vital for Raising Adopted Children
- Parent Cooperation Vital for Raising Adopted Children
- Parent Cooperation Vital for Raising Adopted Children
- The role of social workers in intercountry adoption
- The Adoption Act
- Ex-Pat Adoptions
- UNICEFs stance on International Adoption
- Cost of adoption
- Passport applications for newly adopted children
- International Adoption Guide
- Personal Adoption Consultation
- About
- My adoption story
- Thinking of adopting internationally?
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- Successful adoptions into the UK
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- Legal
- Dedication
- When you close inter-country adoptions
- Brief History of adoption
- Adoptions into Northern Ireland
- UNICEF's agreement on Intercountry Adoption
- News
- New adoption guidelines: Bombay
- India - more girls then boys adopted
- Pakistan begins to register her orphans
- Horrendous poverty in Kenyan orphanages
- India adoption by single male
- Latest on Russian adoptions
- Saudi Arabia moving orphans into Foster care
- Italy court OKs landmark gay adoption case
- Update: Indian Adoptions
- Kyrgyzstan resumes International Adoptions
- News archive
- Congolese wait is over
- Nepal opens doors to inter-country adoption
- Russia makes changes in law to protect its adopted children
- Chinese break trafficking network
- UNICEF commends Vietnam
- Indian private adoption agency closes
- Machine Guns and a Sweet Baby Girl
- Haiti Two Years On
- Post Adoption Centre extends advice line phone hours
- UK Border Agency in Russia
- Transformative effects of adoption
- Society Putin Urges Limiting Foreign Adoption of Russian Kids
- New UK Adoption Legislation
- No change to adoption law for gays in Northern Ireland
- Ukraine: Reform of the Internats
- South Australia to formally apologise for forced adoptions
- Muslim Anti Adoption Benefits Terrorism
- Government of Laos Announces Suspension of Intercountry Adoption
- Ethiopian government travel to China to learn about inter-country adoption
- Romania New Adoption Law in Effect
- Romania New Adoption Law in Effect
- Romania New Adoption Law in Effect
- Expert Opinion on Adoption Support
- Ethiopian Delegation Visits China to Share InterCountry Adoptions
- Spain's Stolen Children
- Suspension of Adoptions Lifted in Sierra Leone
- “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”
- Indian adoptions to be quicker
- Delays in placing children
- Adoptive mother who returned son charged
- Doctors root for adoption over in vitro fertilization
- Bulgarian Journalist Sentenced for Excellent Work, Community Outraged
- Adopting From Africa: The Complicated Truth Behind A Celebrity Fad
- Forced adoption apology a 'significant step' for healing
- Kenyan Ministry reassures on funds for orphans
- Out of Ethiopia: Is international adoption an ethical business?
- France to pass gay marriage, adoption law
- Church in Zimbabwe builds orphanage
- Church in Zimbabwe builds orphanage
- Chinese orphans chained together
- China may broaden adoption law
- Agreement between US and Russia
- South Africa would rather foster than adopt
- India adoptions no longer a stigma
- The international adoption system has broken down
- Over one million orphans in Ghana
- Morocco closes its doors to inter-country adoption
- Generation of Orphans: South Africa’s Children of AIDS
- Iraq conflict: Crisis of an orphaned generation
- Haiti to fix broken adoption system
- Inter-country adoptions from India
- Ethiopian Adoptee Wins Legal Case to Revoke Adoption
- French Assembly passes gay marriage, adoption bill
- Two French charity workers jailed in 'false orphans' case
- China seeks to change adoption laws
- Almost 120 000 orphans available for adoption in Russia
- Gay family Right to adopt
- Adoption best way for happiness
- Ireland family in court to get recognition for adoption
- Adoption: Support and benefits set out in government guide
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Adopting Frozen Embryos...
- U.S. – Ireland Operating Arrangement for Outgoing Adoptions of U.S. Children by Irish Prospective Adoptive Parents
- U.S. Parents Take Child Adoption Plea to Washington
- UNICEF say number orphans declining
- The Increasing Problem of AIDS Orphans in Africa
- Orphans, families in agonizing limbo
- Oona King's speech to House of Lords on adoption
- South Korea joins Hague
- Russia may ban French Same-sex Couples
- Ireland number of intercountry adoptions fall
- Adoptee returns to birth country with accusations of kidnap
- Kazakhstan Reiterates American Adoption Ban
- China to place ban on private orphan shelters
- China has over half a million orphans
- Where is the Post Adoption Support?
- Jamica Adoption rules under review
- Indian adoptions in Gulf halted
- The horrors that vulnerable children face
- The horrors that vulnerable children face
- The horrors that vulnerable children face
- The horrors that vulnerable children face
- The horrors that vulnerable children face
- America Has its Own Orphan Crisis
- China Supervises Use of Orphan Aid Funds
- Russia stops UK single's from adopting
- Canada stops adoptions from Pakistan
- Inter-country adoptions from Slovakia
- Adoption Day in Ukraine
- South Africa and Holland sign adoption agreement
- Orphans vent Grief over Bangladash Tragedy
- Orphans vent Grief over Bangladash Tragedy
- Only one of the US Russian orphans has been adopted
- Russia-US agreement annulled
- Kyrgyzstan resumes International Adoptions
- Foster care takes root in India
- India Supreme Court gives adoption rights to Muslims
- New identiies for adopted children
- Single mums just as happy as mothers in relationships
- Japan’s orphans neglected: HRW
- Chance for SA orphans with agreement with Australia
- South African adoptions down while orphan numbers up
- Chinese orphans given free health insurance
- India to revise adoption guidelines
- Brits no longer able to adopt children in Singapore
- India: less than 20000 children adopted in 4 Years
- Great News for Indian adoptions
- Orphans political pawns in the war for Eastern Europe
- Death of Adopted Russian Boy in Italy Sparks Outrage
- Of the 8 million kids in institutions worldwide, more than 90% aren't orphans
- Kashmir has over 0.2 million orphans
- UN 1,500 new orphans as a result of Israeli war
- Woman wins permission to look at late father's adoption files
- U.S. to restart inter-country adoption program with Vietnam
- Spain and Russia Sign Partnership Agreement on Adoption
- ‘Full horror’ of suffering of Russian orphans is unveiled
- Spain and Russia Sign Partnership Agreement on Adoption
- Greece: 7 arrested in illegal adoption ring
- Ebola orphans shunned
- Government adoption reforms only impacting on younger children, says charity
- Congratulations to R and N and little one!
- The Truth of Orpans
- Teenager wins International Children's Award for her orphan work
- Irish Adoption Reforms
- Nepal
- Russia number of orphans dropping
- China chages its adoption criteria
- We are all children of the Universe
- Adoption in the News
- Loving foster homes repaired brain damage of Romanian orphan
- Cambodia to resume foreign adoption
- Not looking good for Indian adoptions
- Kazahkstan to invest in adoption
- Kenya ban revoked
- India - eases up regulations for passport applications for adopted children
- Adoptions Northern Ireland
- Anyone can adopt from India
- NAMIBIA JOINS THE 1993 INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION CONVENTION
- A new Play regarding adoption from the 60s
- Hair test in child protection goes wrong
- Congo drafts new adoption legislation
- There are very few children in the UK to adopt
- 7719 people applied to adopt from India
- High number of adoptions from China
- Social workers inquiry
- Ethiopia adoptions in chaos
- Whoop! Whoop!
- Cambodia and Malta sign adoption agreement
- Mali - new orphan crises
- Peru temporarily suspends adoptions
- India reduces fees for inter-country adoption
- India New Adoption Laws Come into Effect Today
- Ukraine's orphan crises
- Nepal to begin process to ratify Hague Convention
- Why UK has low Inter country adoption numbers
- Blog
- Views
- "Older Mom, Growing Older"
- The numbers of inter-country adoptions declining
- Love is a Many Splendored Thing
- Ignorance of journalists
- Orphans Under the Radar
- Adoption saves children from horrifying reality
- Its an age thing!
- Frankly OUtrageous
- The argument for international adoption
- Putting my head down....
- Dr. Jane Aronson on the Early Challenges of Adopting
- Investing in your Future
- Post IVF and Beyond Mentoring Programme
- Emotional Blocks
- Inter-Racial Adoption
- Happiness and Envy
- Pricing international adoption out of the market
- Adoption Language
- How much time do you have left?
- Post Placement reports
- Family Day!
- Accelerating Progress to Help the World's Orphans
- Adoption, Adoption everywhere
- We've done it!
- Consultation on DCSF charging for their services
- No children in the UK available for adoption
- Open Adoption
- Horrific reports about Irish Institutions
- Children-in-need a commodity?
- Permutations
- UK opens doors to Trans-racial adoption
- UNCEF'S Position on Inter-Country Adoption
- A new child is about to be born
- The Joy of My Son
- Intimidation by Social Workers
- Winner
- Look closely
- Flame of Injustice and Flame of Hope
- My Little Entrepreneur
- Obama supports Russia-US adoption agreement
- 'Project Prevention'
- 'He is Born'
- With all the best intentions....
- New Parenting Classes for adoptive parents
- Internationally Adopted Children Thriving
- Reflection
- Views archive
- New Major Position for Adoption in Politics
- Holding Hands
- Love and Legislation
- Adopting Abroad: Saira's Story Part 2
- Drop in number of baby adoptions
- A member has started the process!
- Children Trafficked in the UK
- Decline in International adoptions
- The lost opportunity
- World's AIDS Day
- Don't Forget the Children without Families
- The Jewish Imperative for Child Adoption
- To tell or not to tell
- Woman brings hope to orphans in Haiti
- The Children's Society Key to Child happiness report
- Open vs. Closed Adoptions
- Who Cares That Tom and Nicole's Kids Were Adopted?
- Too many children are missing out on adoption
- New borns, Fashion, Thank yous and Creative Ideas
- Adopting Abroad: Saira's Story
- Guest Blog
- Debate or Celebration?
- Every orphaned child deserves a home
- Letter to the UN
- Islamic Law, Adoptions and Kafalah
- Positive Older Adoption Story
- Adoption Blogs
- Dr Jane Aronson's Journal from the Field
- Drawn together by sharing our children's story
- Kelly Ensslin Fixing the International Adoption Mess
- Emphasizing Family, Embracing Culture
- The love for an orphan
- That Russian thingy
- They have got it all wrong
- Ofsted releases statistics on adoption
- How can this be?
- Open letter to Mr Putin
- Russia’s Adoption Ban Is Cruel and Vindictive to All
- Qinisani Home Orphanage
- Qinisani Home Orphanage
- Apology for Australians
- Hague 20 years on
- Russian orphans trapped in poverty
- GiFT Adoption Agency
- So sad, so very sad
- Silver award for progress
- We need your help
- Media reports changing face of international adoption
- Children and Families Bill 2013
- Putin's Punished Orphans
- Putting my head down....
- The brain of a neglected child
- Tatyana McFadden
- New Logo
- Educated households more likely to adopt
- Adoption 'difficult, but rewarding'
- Austrian orphans infected with malaria
- What happens when orphans leave the orphanage?
- Life after the orphanage
- Adoption challenged my idealism
- Worldwide Orphans: Warriors in the Fight Against Loneliness
- Adoption disruptions
- Holy Moly Ghana this is not a solution!
- Abuse in orphanages
- A Guide to Child Care Law in the UK
- Understanding adoption
- 6 Things Everyone Should Know to Say (or Not Say) About Adoption
- All you want for Christmas....
- Academic look at international adoption
- Toward a Greater Understanding of International Adoption
- Racial Difference Among Adopted Multiracial Adults
- Ahhhh...how IS this in the best interests of the child?
- The difference between Inter-country adoption and child trafficking
- An insight into Romanian orphan history
- Ba Vi, Vietnam Adoption: Happy and Healthy Child Living With HIV in the U.S.
- Is this in a child's best interest?
- Janette Pepall talks about Baby Hatches
- Identity
- It's a New Year!
- Nicole Kidman on Lion and adoption: 'It's about the simplicity of love'
- Challenge to ReThink and stopping support for orphanages
- You can adopt if you are disabled
- Thailand adoptions
- Nothing worse then a crying child?
- New UK Adoption Laws
- I am so incensed....
- How Music Can Help Your Child Develop Literacy Skills
- Travelling with your child
- Views
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IAG Blog
You can adopt if you are disabled
Published - Mar 05, 2018
Challenge to ReThink and stopping support for orphanages
Published - Sep 25, 2017
Nicole Kidman on Lion and adoption: 'It's about the simplicity of love'
Published - Jan 16, 2017
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Why UK has low Inter country adoption numbers
Published - Mar 23, 2017
Nepal to begin process to ratify Hague Convention
Published - Mar 14, 2017
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