This new ISS publication on intercountry adoption breakdowns aims at giving support to adoptees, adoptive parents, professionals from Central Authorities and from other competent authorities, and Adoption Accredited Bodies, in order to prevent and manage the crises, and even breakdowns, faced by adoptive families. The publication brings together the contributions of experts from extremely diverse geographical and professional horizons (legal, social, psychology, psychoanalysis, research, health, mediation, politics, media, etc.).Two messages are clearly set out in this manual. 1. Benevolent, professional, quality support can transform a crisis into an opportunity to reinforce relationships which have suffered from a series of personal and interpersonal factors. 2. Adoption breakdown is a painful process but it never signifies that a person's life is a failure.
