2024-05-22 08:56:45
The Netherlands will now not permit its residents to undertake kids overseas, Minister of Authorized Safety Frank Verwind introduced, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
He added that in the interim, interstate procedures at a stalemate will proceed.
Over the previous half century, Dutch dad and mom have adopted round 40,000 kids from 80 international locations. Lately, the usage of this observe has decreased: for 2019, solely 145 kids have been adopted overseas, and for the pandemic 12 months 2020, this quantity drops to 70, in line with the newest information from the impartial Institute for the Research of Dutch Youth Issues.
Between February 2021 and November 2022, the Dutch authorities had launched an virtually two-year short-term ban on intercountry adoptions.
Dutch adoption coverage has come beneath scrutiny as a result of rising variety of grownup residents adopted as kids who started to analysis their ancestry and infrequently found that their beginning certificates have been both misplaced or falsified, or that their adoption happened illegally.