Intercountry adoptions are decreasing year by year

Legal vagueness and cases of stolen children are all the rage. The idea of ??hanging them completely is even mentioned.

In 2016 and 2017, the ACF, the Belgian international adoption service, recognized some two hundred supervised cases of adoptions decided abroad. Since then, this number has continued to decrease: 75 in 2018, 58 in 2019 and 49 in 2020.

Why ? "The first factor is the increase in the standard of living in the countries of origin of the children, these favor since internal adoption ", explains Christine-Laura Kouassi, spokesperson for the FPS Justice. " There is also the closure of certain channels due to legal uncertainty or the application of the Hague Convention which requires the country to review their organization before intercountry adoption becomes possible again."

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