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Home Is Where The Heart Is: Determining The Standard For Habitual Residence Under The Hague Convention Based On A Child-Centric Approach, Aimee Weiner Nov 2015

Home Is Where The Heart Is: Determining The Standard For Habitual Residence Under The Hague Convention Based On A Child-Centric Approach, Aimee Weiner

Seton Hall Circuit Review

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Openness In International Adoption, Malinda L. Seymore Sep 2015

Openness In International Adoption, Malinda L. Seymore

Malinda L. Seymore

After a long history of secrecy in domestic adoption in the United States, there is a robust trend toward openness. That is, however, not the case with international adoption. The recent growth in international adoption has been spurred, at least in part, by the desire of adoptive parents to return to closed, confidential adoptions where the identity of the birth mother is secret and there is no ongoing contact with her. There is, however, an emergent interest in increased openness in international adoption, spurred by the success of domestic open adoptions, health concerns when an adoptee's genetic history is important, …


Openness In International Adoption, Malinda L. Seymore Mar 2015

Openness In International Adoption, Malinda L. Seymore

Faculty Scholarship

After a long history of secrecy in domestic adoption in the United States, there is a robust trend toward openness. That is, however, not the case with international adoption. The recent growth in international adoption has been spurred, at least in part, by the desire of adoptive parents to return to closed, confidential adoptions where the identity of the birth mother is secret and there is no ongoing contact with her. There is, however, an emergent interest in increased openness in international adoption, spurred by the success of domestic open adoptions, health concerns when an adoptee's genetic history is important, …