RT Book, Section
A1 Staat, Mary Allen
A2 Shah, Samir S.
A2 Kemper, Alex R.
A2 Ratner, Adam J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1157324692
T1 Infectious Disease Issues in Internationally Adopted Children
T2 Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259861536
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1157324692
RD 2024/04/24
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.