The Netherlands will no longer allow international adoptions
It must not be possible for Dutch citizens to adopt children from abroad. This is announced by a Dutch minister, writes Reuters.
Dutch adoption procedures have come under scrutiny after a growing number of adult adoptees began investigating their roots. Here, several people discovered that their birth documents had been falsified or that their adoption had been illegal.
Dutch parents have adopted around 40,000 children from many different countries in the past 50 years.
In Denmark, it is currently not possible to adopt foreign children, after Danish International Adoption (DIA), which as the only organization in Denmark mediates international adoptions, stopped that work in January .