ADOPTION Rethink

In their article Put an end to adoption (15/2), Pien Bos and Will van Sebille call on the temporary stop of intercountry adoption of children to be converted into a permanent one. Based on research among distance parents (usually mothers), legally correct adoptions should also stop, they argued. By signing a legal document, a mother does not become the ex-mother.

I was shocked by this, because drawing a definitive line under adoption has a significant impact. For example, for gay and straight couples who cannot have children and who really want to. The temporary stop on adoption is understandable in order to reconsider: how can we ensure that adoption is always done carefully in the future? Of course, taking into account the mother and the child itself.

I therefore think that adoption should be possible again in the future, but only from so-called safe countries, I am thinking of the OECD countries. The OECD now has 38 countries that subscribe to the principles of the market economy, the rule of law and (not unimportant in this regard) respect for human rights. In this way we can hopefully meet the justified concerns and the fervent wish for an adopted child.

Eddie Altenburg-Collin

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