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Now available in paperback adoption beyond borders endorses international adoption as a viable path to child welfare by exploring key topics including effects of institutionalization on childrens developing brains cognitive abilities and socioemotional functioning. 2017 adoption beyond borders how international adoption benefits children adoption quarterly vol 20 no 2 pp 195 199. That is evidence strongly suggests that policy should favor placing unparented children in adoptive homes as early in life as possible instead many policies encourage time wasting waffling while children remain in institutions or prioritize temporary foster care or institutionalization in the country of origin over international adoption. Adoption beyond borders integrates evidence from a range of disciplines in the social and biological sciences including psychology neuroscience evolutionary biology sociology anthropology and social work to provide a ringing endorsement of international adoption as a viable child welfare option