Intercountry Adoption in Europe 1998–2008: Patterns, Trends and Issues
This paper analysed movements of children for adoption between European countries, distinguishing countries sending children from those receiving them. It examined the changing European adoption system and its relationship with policy developments, including European Union enlargement. UK data form part of the comparison.
Limitations: Country-level administrative evidence, not adoptee testimony or individual outcome measurement. Countries differ in data completeness and definitions. UK-wide figures should not be relabelled as England-and-Wales-only findings. The article updates an earlier book chapter and overlaps other Selman statistical analyses. Publication relationship: this research was published by BAAF or in its Adoption & Fostering journal, now associated with CoramBAAF, an adoption-sector organisation. Publication does not establish that the organisation conducted the research; readers may take the institutional relationship into account.
- Research type
- Comparative demographic analysis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
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- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Intercountry adoption
Programme: Selman comparative intercountry adoption statistics
Institutional context: Adoption-sector advocacy/service organisation
Publication relationship: this research was published by BAAF or in its Adoption & Fostering journal, now associated with CoramBAAF, an adoption-sector organisation. Publication does not establish that the organisation conducted the research; readers may take the institutional relationship into account.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: administrative data, Adoption systems, intercountry adoption, research methodology
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: Europe, including UK
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