Sebastian Kruis (PVV) went looking for his biological mother: 'adoption file was correct'

THE HAGUE - Council member Sebastian Kruis of the Hague PVV is happy that his personal adoption file is correct. Last year he met his biological mother in Colombia. This was preceded by a considerable period of doubt, Sebastian told the Vrijmibo program on Den Haag FM.

'Misconduct with international adoptions forced me to check whether my own file was correct,' says Sebastian. 'Because I said that in the media at the time, it was also a big stick for me personally to actually do it. Very often people asked about it because they had read that interview in AD Haagsche Courant earlier this year. And sometimes I tend to put personal matters on the back burner. Because of that interview I had made my wish an obligation: that it finally had to happen for me this year.'

Earlier this year, Sebastian went to Colombia: 'I went there in April to check whether it was correct. And then I met my mother within a week. She knew essential personal things about me, which was very special. It actually went so fast that I didn't feel like I had time to think about it. It happened to me and that suits me too. But it is a special story and I am also happy that the file is correct. She left me in the hospital after two days. She knew where I was born, she knew my name and how old I was.

"Parents too often in suspect's bench"

Sebastian thinks that people often think too negatively about adoption: 'The most important lesson is that adoption is not always wrong. She lived on the street in Medellin and was a drug addict for 40 years, just like my father. Growing up on the street in such a situation is not a good situation. And that is why international adoption is often just a real solution. And of course: other countries are also developing, so the numbers of children are smaller. But it was nice at the time that people wanted to adopt children who would not get it right in their own country. I sometimes have the idea that parents are sometimes placed in the suspect's bench.'

'That is extremely annoying, because in addition to the fact that children were sometimes the victims of abuses, parents trusted that they were doing something that was right. They also had no way of knowing that what had been approved by the government at the time was not always correct. In my case, fortunately, everything was correct, but it also concerns other parents. Fortunately, there are also many children for whom everything went well and who have a nice family here in the Netherlands. That is sometimes good to draw attention to.'

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