ABSTRACT
Global intercountry adoption rose significantly during the mid-to late 1990s, and by the year 2000 the Millennium adoption boom was well under way. Then the bust came, with a dramatic decline after a 2004 global peak of 45,000 adoptions. As a result, adoption scholars and experts have considered the future of the practice, from varying perspectives (Ballard, Goodno, Cochran, & Milbrandt, 2015; Briggs & Marre, 2009; Gibbons & Rotabi, 2012). On the whole, scholars are not promoters of intercountry adoption, rather they tend to be pragmatic in their
perspective, calling for reform and strengthening of the practice for long-term sustainability (Rotabi & Bunkers, 2011; Rotabi & Gibbons, 2009). Rarely do you hear a call from them to abolish intercountry adoption outright.
