Articles of category "International Adoption Laws"

On Average about 133 million babies are born each year. Out of all the children put into adoption only 20,000 children world wide are adopted each year. Not very many people understand what it means to be a foster or an adoptive parent, or the adoption law. People tend to shy away from something that they do not know much about, which is the case for adoption/foster care. Learn more, and make a child's wish come true.

There really is not a body of international law like we understand law in the United States. There is no legislature to pass laws, no police force to arrest people for violating laws and no courts to punish offenders of laws. The closest thing to what we know as laws are various conventions and treaties that countries agree to enforce within their own borders. The closest thing to an international adoption law is the Hague Convention on Adoptions.