Harsh criticism of the Liberal Party's call for a freeze on adoptions
Harsh criticism of the Liberal Party's call for a freeze on adoptions
It creates "an amazing" insecurity for families with adopted children, when the Left calls DanAdopt suspended think Adoption & Society. Eyvind Vesselbo stand firm.
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Adoption and Society swipe at Liberal Eyvind Vesselbo and his call to close DanAdopt.
Written by: Theis Lange Olsen
Liberal Eyvind Vesselbo creates an amazing sense of insecurity for all adoptees and parents to adopted children when he will suspend all DanAdopt activities.
It believes Jens Damkjær, chairman of the Adoption & Society, which brings together 3,500 families who have adopted.
READ THE Left requires DanAdopt suspended
- There must adoption professionalism over when we make decisions in adoption cases. So we are somewhat saddened that Eyvind Vesselbo comes out and is so bombastic, he told BBC News.
72 Danish couple on the waiting list
Left Politics The announcement came in the wake of the story that DanAdopt not seem to have had knowledge of the men in Ethiopia, used to entice parents to be adopting their children, the so-called børnehøstere.
There are currently 72 Danish families on the waiting list for an Ethiopian child. But their situation is not helped by the Left draw a picture of the problem of child harvests are so large that DanAdopt be suspended, says Jens Damkjær.
- Here we support a much greater extent Minister of Social Affairs and Social Appeals Board action to stop these adoptions to have them investigated, he said.
Many children need helping hand
In Ethiopia dies 77 out of 1,000 children before the age of five, and the country still has major problems with neglect and abject poverty. Therefore adoptions in many respects still obvious, emphasizes Jens Damkjær.
- There are lots of children who need a helping hand to live a good life. And here's adoption that is one of the good opportunities, he said.
Vesselbo: It is preventive
Liberal Eyvind Vesselbo maintains its call to close DanAdopt despite the warning from Adoption & Society.
- But I believe that it will set up a safety for the children who come to Denmark, that they are not stolen or purchased. No parents in Denmark will surely have a child who is stolen or purchased. I say it here to prevent, so this can not happen in the future, says Eyvind Vesselbo.
He can not follow the interpretation that parents of adopted children now feel unsafe by the agency they used to adoption, proposed closed.
- It is a very compassionate attitude I have. I simply can not follow the reasoning that it would be detrimental to anyone. It is a win for all parties to go into it here, says Eyvind Vesselbo.
Enhedslistens member of the Social Committee Pernille Skipper has also voiced interest in closing down the DanAdopt. In addition, she suggests independent oversight of all organizations providing adoptions to Denmark.
Social Karen Haekkerup (S) refused to close DanAdopt work with adoptions in other countries before is clear evidence that DanAdopt have failed elsewhere.