In researching the different methods of organising intercountry adoption in England and France, Joanna Greenfield found that neither country could guarantee good practice.
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Interdepartmental Review of Adoption Law, Background Paper Number 3 and Discussion Paper No.4 on Intercountry Adoption, January 1992.
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DuncanW, ‘The Hague Convention on the protection of children and co-operation in respect of intercountry adoption’, Adoption & Fostering. 173. 1993.
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The major part of this article was first published in Social Work in EuropeVol I, July 1994.
