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Terre
des hommes Foundation (2008). Adoption: at what cost? For an ethical responsibility
of receiving countries in intercountry adoption. 60 p. Authored by
Hofstetter, M. and Lammerant, I. A comparative study on the ethical
responsibility of receiving countries, Germany, Spain, France, Italy,
Norway and Switzerland, of intercountry adoption. Focus has been given for
many years on the practices of the countries of origin. They have been
found to be too lax or too corrupt, and considered to be responsible for
the downward slide in standards for intercountry adoption. It shows how the
receiving countries also have a certain responsibility. With procedures and
legislation which have little, if any, respect to the interests of the
child, and policies which tend to respond to the demands of adopting
couples or put pressure on the countries of origin in order to obtain
children, the receiving countries do not respect the engagements they
undertook by ratifying the Hague Convention on international adoption.
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