Adoption and Kafala

Adoption is the formal, permanent transfer of parental rights to a family other than a child’s own and the formal assumption by that family of all parenting duties for the child. Where a child’s parents are living and their parental rights have not been terminated, they must provide informed consent for adoption. In some countries it is not culturally acceptable to give the parental rights to a non-family member, and therefore alternative long-term care options must be pursued e.g. kinship care. In some Islamic countries, the term ‘Kafala’ in Islamic law is used to describe a situation similar to adoption, but without the severing of family ties, the transference of inheritance rights, or the change of the child’s family name.   

 

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Adopt Us Kids,

This resource offers principles to frame an agency's foster care recruitment and retention practices related to siblings.

EveryChild ,

This report examines the impacts of HIV on the care choices of children, exploring how HIV affects whether or not children can remain within parental care, and on the alternative care options open to them.

International Social Service,

Using a range of intergovernmental, governmental, nongovernmental and media sources, this report compiled by International Social Service constitutes an unprecedented effort to document, and draw preliminary conclusions from, the course of events related to intercountry adoptions from Haiti in the first half of 2010

BCN Secretariat ,

In June 2010, the Committee on the Rights of the Child issued its Concluding Observations to countries reviewed during the Committee's 54th session. This brief summarizes the UNCRC observations regarding alternative care.

RELAF and SOS Children’s Villages International,

This paper is based on The Latin American Report: The situation of children in Latin America without parental care or at risk of losing it. Contexts, causes and responses, which was prepared using reports from 13 countries in the region. The paper gives an overview of the state of one of the most fundamental rights - the right to parental care, a keystone for the right to live in a family and a community.

ISS for UNICEF and Department of Adoption of Ministry of Justice of Viet Nam,

Independent assessment of the situation of Intercountry adoption in Vietnam.

ISS-IRC,

Defines the ethics and principles that should govern adoption.

UN General Assembly A/RES/64/142,

The Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children were endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly on 20th November 2009, in connection with the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

Save the Children UK,

Brief recognizes the potential opportunities ICA can provide a child but examines the problems and risks frequently associated with the practice.

International Social Service ,

Discusses risks associated with using adoption in emergency settings. Additional consideration given on where adoptions can be safely and appropriately facilitated for children with adoptions underway prior to the earthquake.