From intercountry adoption to global surrogacy : a human rights history and new fertility frontiers / Karen Smith Rotabi and Nicole F. Bromfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rotabi, Karen Smith, author.

Bromfield, Nicole F., author.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercountry adoption.

Surrogate motherhood.

Physical Description:

xvi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Intercountry adoption has undergone a radical decline since 2004 when it reached a peak of approximately 45,000 children adopted globally. Its practice had been linked to conflict, poverty, gender inequality, and claims of human trafficking, ultimately leading to the establishment of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption (HCIA). This international private law along with the Convention on the Rights of the Child affirm the best interests of the child as paramount in making decisions on behalf of children and families with obligations specifically oriented to safeguards in adoption practices. In 2004, as intercountry adoption peakea and then began a dramatic decline, commercial global surrogacy contracts began to take off in India. Global surrogacy gained in popularity owing, in part, to improved assisted reproductive technology methods, the ease with which people can make global surrogacy arrangements, and same-sex couples seeking the option to have their own genetically-related children. Yet regulation remains an issue, so much so that the Hague Conference on Private International Law has undertaken research and assessed the many dilemmas as an expert group considers drafting a new law, with some similarities to the HCIA and a strong emphasis on parentage. This ground-breaking book presents a detailed history and applies policy and human rights issues with an emphasis on the best interests of the child within intercountry adoption and the new conceptions of protection necessary in global surrogacy. To meet this end, voices of surrogate mothers in the US and India ground discourse as authors consider the human rights concerns and policy implications. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Rescue, refugees, orphans, and restitution 1

2 The politics of adoption from Romania to Russia and what we know about children languishing in residential care facilities 36

3 Poverty, birth families, legal, and social protection 52

4 Guatemala: violence against women and force, fraud, and coercion, including child abduction into adoption and a new system emerging 64

5 Child-protection systems of care to ensure child rights in family support and adoption: India and the United States 89

6 "Sins of the saviors": Africa as the final frontier 103

7 From intercountry adoption to commercial global surrogacy 121

8 Voices of US surrogates: a content analysis of blogs by US gestational surrogates 132

9 Perspectives of Indian women who have completed a global surrogacy contract / Lopamudra Goswami Goswami, Lopamudra 142

10 The future of intercountry adoption, global surrogacy, and new frontiers 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781472448859

1472448855

1138242632

9781138242630

OCLC:

953886017