TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Infectious Disease Issues in Internationally Adopted Children A1 - Staat, Mary Allen A2 - Shah, Samir S. A2 - Kemper, Alex R. A2 - Ratner, Adam J. PY - 2019 T2 - Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2e AB - Each year thousands of children immigrate to the United States to begin a new life through international adoption. While internationally adopted children are immigrants who are classified as orphans, most children are not truly orphaned, but have been abandoned by or separated from their parents.1 Children available for international adoption generally have resided all or most of their lives in orphanages before coming to the United States. The exception is South Korea and Guatemala, where nearly all children were placed in foster care until their adoption. In more recent years, some children from China have also been placed with foster families until adopted. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1157324692 ER -