Council youth protection calls for stop on adoption from abroad – NU.nl

The Council presents the advice on Wednesday to the cabinet, reports Faith. The cabinet had the advisory board be asked to examine ways in which the adoption process of the Inspection Youth care can be improved.

On that adoption process was a lot of criticism. The Board, however, comes with the advice to foreign adoption, not more.

A first step would be that not more adopted might be from China, the US and EU countries. According to the council, it is in China, not to verify that the adoption procedure is followed, and in countries like the US and EU countries, the board proposes that it is implausible that the children will not soon be able to visit families in the country itself.

Home

“A child is always better off in a family than in a home and it is very important that a child’s continuity of education,” says juvenile court Jolande Calkoen, who is a member of the RSJ.

“So that the environment stays where it is the culture, the social environment and knows the language. Growing up in a family in the country of origin, therefore, has the preference.”

Money

According to the council for international adoption is a demand driven market’ arise in which the interests of the child are not paramount and where both in the Netherlands and abroad a lot of money is earned to adoption.

“The fact that homes are not military, indicates that it is a demand-driven market seems to be. There is also shown that the majority of the children for adoption, or parents. The are not being. You can then ask yourself to what extent the waiver of a child is really the intention was of that mother,” says Calkoen. “It is better and more durable to help in the construction of child protection in the country of origin.”

The council think it would be better if the Dutch government, the attention shifts to the improvement of the welfare system in the countries where adopted children come from.

The Council finds that adoption a lot of benefits for the individual child, but found that the system as a whole too much insoluble entails risks. The RSJ stressed in the report that adoptive parents and bemiddelingsbureaus nothing be blamed.

By: NU.nl/ANP