Abstract
This chapter examines the Ghanaian legal framework for child fostering and adoption in the context of international law. In particular, it considers the genesis and regulations of two legal child-care concepts in the Ghanaian Children's Act-child adoption and foster care-and shows how these concepts are applied in concrete cases. By analysing two concrete cases of transborder child adoption, the chapter shows how people adapt to and negotiate this legal framework. The author focuses on the international and national legal frameworks relating to child adoption and foster care, and complements the socio-anthropological perspectives on child fostering. Using Ghana as an example, the chapter discusses the practice of child fostering in the context of the intense international migration of Ghanaians and the emergence of international and national legal norms with regard to forms of parenthood and children's upbringing. Keywords:child adoption; child fostering; foster care; Ghana; legal pluralism
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