Overview: Traces the evolution of adoption law, policy, and practice across many centuries and various nations, focusing on conceptual and definitional matters.Provides a comparative evaluation of adoption in d.This book, which updates and expands the third edition published by Springer in 2015, explains, compares and evaluates the social and legal functions of adoption within a range of selected jurisdictions and on an international basis. From the standpoint of the development of adoption in England & Wales, and the changes currently taking place there, it considers the process as it has evo
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