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The International Laws On Adoption: An Historical And Conceptual Approach

Updated: Apr 4, 2024

Ankana Bal, Ph.D. Scholar, Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.





ABSTRACT


Adoption is one of the most common customary practices in the world. All the societies do not substitute

non-consanguineous relationships as analogous to blood relations, but all of them recognise some kinds of alternative family care systems. Adoption, being the most popular alternative family system, causes great concern to the international community.


Therefore, international laws gradually develop universal standards of child protection in the institution of adoption. This paper discusses how the international laws relating to adoption evolved; what are the standard protections mandated for the States; and how adoption historically a system that gave a family a child, evolved to a system that gives to a child a family.


Keywords: Best Interest of the Child, CRC, Article 20, Article 21, HCIA




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