The Decline of International Adoption

"With the opening of China and Russia in the 1990s, international adoption exploded -- 410,000 children were adopted by citizens of 27 countries between 2000 and 2010, according to Peter Selman, an international adoption expert from Newcastle University and statistical adviser to the U.N. Hague Convention on international adoption."CNN World

 "Chinese orphanages then were stuffed with abandoned infants," largely girls, Caughman said, as boys were preferred by families after the implementation of the one-child policy. "Russia was on its knees in a catastrophic situation as the social fabric unraveled."CNN World

 I think it's both a surprise that it's been dropping, and it's a surprise that significant forces are opposed to international adoption
Elizabeth Bartholet, Harvard Law School

 The U.S. adopts more children internationally, but also domestically, as the rest of the world combined
Adam Pertman, author of "Adoption Nation"

"Laura Blitzer with her daughter, Cydney, adopted from China in 2000. Blitzer has waited six years to adopt a second child"CNN World
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"Laura Blitzer 
with her daughter, Cydney, adopted from China in 2000. Blitzer has waited six years to adopt a second child"CNN World
"Transnational adoptions grew in popularity following the World War II -- at least 50,000 took place from 1948 to"CNN World