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Journal Article
The Fate of Intercountry Adoptions Following COVID-19
2021
Overview
Intercountry adoption (ICA) is the process of adopting \"a child from a country other than your own through permanent legal means,\" and then bringing that child to live with you in your country of residence. Whether the adoption is international or domestic, the process is largely handled by private agencies and lawyers who act as intermediaries and interact directly with the participants. For prospective adoptive parents, adopting a child from a foreign country is based on contractual arrangements and requires time, paperwork, and intermediaries to hasten the one- to four-year process. For lawyers and private agencies, ICA is a complicated process, often burdened by state regulations, or concerns with equality, legality, or bureaucratic due process. But imagine initiating this process as an adoptive parent, only to find a worldwide pandemic will intervene and further delay the process with travel bans and raised expenses, distracting from the whole objective of foreign adoption. The purpose of this comment is to analyze problems that countries have and/or are going to face post-COVID-19, as travel bans are lifted, and blended families are united.
