This is the announcement made by the Secretary of State for Children this Tuesday, November 8: a the inspection mission will examine illegal practices in intercountry adoption.
The number of international adoptions peaked in the early 2000s before plummeting, as the Secretary of State explains in a statement: “This decrease is mainly the result of changes in policies in the countries of origin of the adopted children, but also of the implementation of the 1993 Hague Convention on Child Protection and Cooperation in Intercountry Adoption; the creation of the French agency for adoptions in 2005 has also made it possible to further improve fraud prevention ”.
In recent years, the scandals linked to international adoptions have in fact been revealed cases of abusive separation of children presented as orphans and deprived of their families to be entrusted to another abroad. This was the case in Ethiopia, as a poll of To chat in 2021 which revealed scams and deceptions about the conditions of adoption by French families, or even in Chad with the much publicized case of L’Arche de Zoé in 2007, named after the offending association.
The voices of the adopted are beginning to be heard
In 2021 the formidable documentary A story of your own directed by Amandine Gay he accurately traced the journey of several adopted people and indicated through them thenecessary politicization of this approach:
” Parents need to prepare for adoption : a black child, for example, has specific needs. So you have to ask yourself questions: Have you visited the child’s country? Can we take him there? Are we interested in your language, your culture? Do you have a black sociability before adopting black children? Because if your son is the only black person we know, that’s a bad omen …
In France we have a huge taboo on race, which can cause problems only in the context of international adoption. “
These voices are just starting to make themselves heard, like that of the creators of AdoptEcoute who, to break the isolation and allow adoptees to discuss their experiences, have founded a listening line:
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Source: Madmoizelle
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