Poland restricts international adoptions

Source: www.vita.it

Publication date: 5 April 2018

International adoptions

Editorial Staff 05 April 2018

In recent months, the Polish Central Authority has refused consent for adoption for minors for which the Warsaw Catholic Adoption Center had given a favorable opinion. These minors will no longer be adoptable, says the government to the CAI, also communicating a restriction of international adoptions

Poland restricts international adoptions, favoring national adoptions, in the belief that it is possible to find adoptive families or a family substitute environment in Poland. This is the response that the Ministry of the Family and Labor and Social Policies of Poland sent to the International Adoptions Committee, which had asked for explanations about the numerous denials received in recent months by some adopting families routed in Poland. The families had received an opinion favorable to the combination with Polish minors by the Catholic Adoption Center in Warsaw but later, after several months of waiting, the Ministry as the Polish Central Authority had not consented to the continuation of the adopted procedure.Cai communicates this on its website. For all minors for whom the Ministry of Family and Labor and Social Policies has in recent months refused consent, there will also be the revocation of international adoption.

As a consequence of this, Cai invited the institutions operating in Poland "not to accept new positions by couples wishing to adopt in Poland and not to deposit new files", assuring "the active interest, also through diplomatic channels, to actions aimed at a possible solution of the affair in the primary interest of abandoned children and Italian families who have long awaited their adoption project ». There are six Italian institutions operating in Poland: Il Conventino, Brutia, Voluntary Solidarity Group, La Stogna, NAAA, NADIA. In 2016 Poland was the second country of origin for minors adopted in Italy, with 181 admissions and in 2017 with 95 entries it was the fifth country.

Countries: Italy, Poland