Reactie op Advies RSJ "interlandelijke adoptie moet stoppen"

Op 3 november publiceerde de Raad van Strafrechtstoepassing en Jeugdbescherming een advies aan de minister van V&J om te stoppen met interlandelijke adoptie.

Na bestudering van de argumenten in het rapport, blijkt een discussie op zijn plaats. In een veranderende wereld is het goed om systemen nu en dan tegen het licht te houden, en dat is te prijzen in het initiatief van de commissie, anderzijds moeten de in het rapport afgewogen argumenten kritisch geëvalueerd worden.

In de links bij deze nieuwsbrief een viertal reacties op het rapport. Om de discussie te verdiepen.

Professor dr. Rien van IJzendoorn stelt in zijn blog dat het rapport geen deugdelijk wetenschappelijk bewijs levert voor de stelling dat interlandelijke adoptie de groei van het aantal weeshuizen zou bevorderen of de jeugdzorg in de landen van herkomst zou benadelen.

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Adopted children may be interested in discovering more about their origins as an important part of their identity. Several countries allow children to access their adoption files and receive information about their biological families and the circumstances of their adoption.

This right does not always include identifying pieces of information about their biological parents (such as their identity and address).

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Key aspects

• In fourteen Member States, persons have access to their adoption file and to certain information regarding their biological families at 18 years (Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom).
• Only Italy requests a higher age, namely 25 years.
• In Belgium, Finland and Czechia, children aged 12 or over may exercise such a right; in Austria and Hungary, this is possible from the age of 14 years. In Bulgaria, Germany and the Netherlands (as well as in Scotland) the threshold is set at 16 years. In the Netherlands, in the case of intercountry adoption, children may obtain their adoption file from the age of 12 years.
• In France and Slovakia, the possibility to access files depends on the child’s maturity.
• Ireland and Slovenia do not grant the right to access adoption files and information relating to one’s biological family. In Ireland, there is a register for facilitating contact between adopted people and their biological families. Participation is voluntary and contact is only initiated if all people involved register. In Slovenia, new rules will apply from 15 April 2019. Access to data on biological families will only be possible if the relevant persons consent. If the child wants to obtain such data, the biological parents must therefore consent. Similarly, if the biological parents ask for information, the child has to consent.
• Certain states allow children to access this information at a lower age, provided they have the consent of their parents (for instance in Denmark, Estonia, Germany and Portugal), for important reasons (for instance in Italy and Lithuania) or subject to an individual assessment of the child’s maturity (in Belgium and Sweden).
• Some countries provide for professional assistance for children prior to or during the consultation of the adoption file. This is the case, for instance, for the French-speaking community in Belgium, where such an assistance is compulsory for all persons under 18 years, and in Finland, where the child is free to accept it or not.
• In Hungary and Estonia, there are limits on the release of information regarding the identity of biological families. These apply if biological parents or siblings could not be asked or did not consent to their identity being disclosed, or if such information is not in the child’s best interests.
• In Slovakia, adoptive parents – if they so choose – may provide the child with information about the biological family, if this is in the child’s best interest.
• In Czechia, children have the right to access files at the Registry Office from the age of 12 years, and those kept by the court at 18. In the case of the mother having requested confidentiality at birth (so called “secret birth” or “anonymous” or “confidential” birth), the disclosure of her identity is allowed only on the basis of a court’s decision, regardless of the child’s age.

Happy New Year ROMANIA

Rupert Wolfe Murray ianuarie 2, 2017 Opinie, Societate/Life

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31/12/16

This is the time of year for greetings, congratulations, optimism and hope. I’ve sent my Christmas cards, eaten my roast ham and welcomed in the New Year. But something is missing.

Happy New Year ROMANIA

Rupert Wolfe Murray ianuarie 2, 2017 Opinie, Societate/Life

Deocamdata nu sunt comentarii 704 Vizualizari

31/12/16

This is the time of year for greetings, congratulations, optimism and hope. I’ve sent my Christmas cards, eaten my roast ham and welcomed in the New Year. But something is missing.

Brabants echtpaar veroordeeld voor illegale adoptie

Een echtpaar uit Uden is door de rechtbank in Den Bosch veroordeeld voor illegale adoptie. Het in Spanje verblijvende stel moet 20.000 euro boete overmaken aan Unicef en krijgt een voorwaardelijke celstraf van 3 maanden.

Redactie 30-12-16, 15:46

Het paar woont al 3,5 jaar in Spanje met het kind en onttrekt zich zo aan het Nederlandse recht. Volgens de rechtbank heeft het er alle schijn van dat de twee de regels proberen te omzeilen bij de adoptie van een Roemeense baby: ,,Dit is buitengewoon laakbaar."

De straf komt bijna overeen met de eis van de Officier van Justitie. Die eiste twee weken geleden een boete van 30.000 euro die overgemaakt moest worden naar Unicef. De verdachten lieten zich toen vertegenwoordigen door een advocate. Het stel kan zelf niet meer internationaal reizen, omdat hun paspoorten zijn verlopen.

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DCOF-UNICEF ASSESSMENT OF “STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS TO PROTECT VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN CAMBODIA”

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report describes the outcomes of the joint DCOF/UNICEF visit to Cambodia to assess the three-year, DCOF-funded project on Strengthening Systems to Protect Vulnerable Children and Families in Cambodia. The assessment visit was carried out in May 2012, toward the end of the project (September 2012). 

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