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Navigating Child Policy in China

An interesting short update on changes to the “one-child” policy in China by Didi Kirsten Tatlow, published in the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times, available here.
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Morocco Joins Child Abduction Convention

On March 9, Morocco deposited its instruments of accession to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The treaty will enter in force in Morocco on June 1, 2010, but its accession will have effect only with respect to other treaty countries that declare their acceptance of this accession.
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Economist: The War on Baby Girls

The Economist has a story this week discussing the dramatic imbalance between the numbers of baby girls and baby boys born in a number of countries, most notably China and northern India, where there are now more than 120 boys born for every 100 girls.  According to the piece:
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Caution re Adoption in Nepal

Recent reports from both the U.S.
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Visitation and Custody Issues and Military Personnel

The Uniform Law Commission (formerly known as the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws) has appointed a drafting committee to “prepare an act that provides standards and procedures for resolving visitation and custody issues affecting military personnel and their families, which may include resolution of matters in intrasta
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