Authority: Irregularities in adoptions should be investigated

The Swedish Agency for Family Law and Parental Support (MFoF) and the Adoption Center - mediators of international adoptions - request an independent investigation into how foreign adoptions to Sweden took place during the 20th century. Stock Photography. Photo: Jessica Gow / TT

The Netherlands froze adoptions from abroad this week after a government commission discovered that children had been stolen from their biological parents.

A similar inquiry should also be appointed in Sweden, according to both the Swedish Agency for Family Law and Parental Support (MFoF) and the Adoption Center.