ABSTRACT
It is estimated that the United States probably accommodates more intercountry adoptions than the aggregate of all the other receiving countries, for example, in Western Europe, Israel and Australia. However, the international media attention soon impacted on Romania's sense of self-esteem and there were clearly flaws in the way in which the system of intercountry adoptions was being operated. However, The Committee on the Rights of the Child noted that: 'this suspension was not absolute since more than 1,500 intercountry adoptions took place in 2002 and 600 such cases are currently under consideration'. The Committee also noted with concern the high number of intercountry adoptions, 'suggesting that this form of adoption is not necessarily a measure of last resort'. The original factors of war-related disruption to the population, giving rise to intercountry adoptions in the 1950s, are no longer relevant today.
