Growing number of overseas adoptions leads to recommendations from Manitoba MDs.
Four Manitoba physicians have developed recommendations to help doctors provide medical advice and counselling to families that want to adopt children from foreign countries. Foreign adoptions are appealing to would-be parents, who might wait years to adopt a Canadian-born child, but in many countries there is a high risk that children placed for adoption will have medical conditions, infectious diseases and developmental problems.
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D000300:Adoption; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008350:Manitoba