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Introduction
Both adoption status and ethnic differences may contribute to stigmatization and microaggressions experienced by adopted individuals and their families. Internationally adopted children have been increasingly recognized to have elevated rates of special needs (SN), especially learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), emotional-behavioral problems, and medical-physical issues. However, relatively little is known about the feelings, perceptions, and stigma experienced by families of internationally adopted children with SN.…
This article is part of a special edition of the journal Psychosocial Intervention (Volume 22 No.03 December 2013) focused on the state of child protection in a wide variety of countries with special attention to out-of-home care placements, principally family foster care and residential care, though several aspects related to adoption were included as well.
This article focuses on the structural similarities and dissimilarities that exist between child protection systems in France and…
A woman flew from Istanbul to Paris with an infant girl hidden inside her hand luggage, Air France has said. An airport source told AFP news agency that the woman was a resident of France who was in the process of adopting the child, from Haiti. It is not clear how old the child was - one source said she was four years old, another that it was a one- or two-year-old baby. The woman and the girl have been held at Charles de Gaulle airport while authorities investigate the case.