Wrongful adoption

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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008009294
- info:lc/authorities/sh2008009294
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2008009294#concept
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- Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Broader Terms
- Adoption
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Archuletta, David. Odyssey of an unknown father : the complete book on wrongful adoption, 2009.
- found: The Praeger handbook of adoption, 2006: v. 2, p. 672 (After courts recognized wrongful adoption based on fraud, they extended the concept to include agencies' negligence in communicating children's background information to prospective adoptive parents)
- found: Adamec, C.A. The encyclopedia of adoption, 2007: p. 302 (Wrongful adoption; a legal term for an adoption that should not have ocurred or would not have occurred had all the relevant facts about the child been made available to the adoptive parents; Instead, information was deliberately misrepresented and/or witheld by the agency, and as a result, the adoptive parents were essentially defrauded)
- found: WikiAnswers.com WWW site, Dec. 5, 2008 (Wrongful adoption)
Change Notes
- 2009-01-29: new

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