Overseas Adopted Child’s Names Made Compulsory A new legislation requires that adoptive parents must keep their overseas adopted child’s original first name definitely if they’re over 12 months and preferably before that too. For more info on actual policy: www.acwa.asn.au/acwa/news/LRCGray.doc Edited from Sunday Telegraph, August 2002 ‘New Names Banned for Children Adopted Abroad’ by Katrina [...]

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