TEHRAN – More than 38,000 Iranian families have applied for adopting children, Saeed Babaei, an official with the Welfare Organization, has said.
A total of 9,372 families applied for adoption in the past Iranian calendar year (March 2022-March 2023), he added.
“Taking the number of families applied for child adoption over the past three years, the number of adoption applicants exceeded 38,000.
Of course, out of this number, about 6,000 families have been blessed with adopted children in the last three years.”
It is projected to take advantage of other methods for the children to leave nurseries and enter families, even temporarily, he pointed out.