NGOs: The number of adoptable children has decreased by more than half after the new law March 19, 2013
Contradictory figures regarding the number of children that can be adopted The adoption system needs a real change, as the modification of the law from April 2012 led to a setback, the number of children declared adoptable falling to 778, compared to 1736 in 2011, said the coordinator of the SOS Infertility Association, Nicoleta Cristea-Brunel, on Tuesday. according to Mediafax.
The representative of the SOS Infertility Association stated that from April 7, 2012, when the new adoption law came into force, 999 decisions were made regarding the opening of the adoption procedure, but 221 of the applications were submitted to the courts before this date, which which means that only 778 children became adoptable since the amendment of the normative act. According to the data communicated by the Romanian Office for Adoptions, in 2009, 1,730 children were declared adoptable, in the following year, 1,921, and in 2011, another 1,736 children. "There is a need for a real change in the system", said Nicoleta Cristea-Brunel, specifying that since the entry into force of the new law, 365 sentences of imprisonment have been communicated for adoption, of which 28 in Bucharest. 3 years and 3 months, the average age of adopted children The average age of children adopted in the last year was three years and three months, and at the end of last year, in the special protection system there were 1,231 children under 12 months and 2,984 children between one and two years. SOS Infertility coordinator showed that, in the last ten months, practically, in the Capital, there was a two-month adoption in each sector. From his point of view, the situation is an "extremely serious one", showing that in the protection system there are 61,656 children who do not have access to a family because of the too restrictive legal provisions.
Cristea-Brunel also showed that, at the end of February, in Romania there were 1,351 certified foster parents, 1,095 being at the first certificate, 199, at the second, 39, the third and 18, at more than three certificates.
The ORA does not recognize the figures published by the NGO