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Dutch halt adoptions from abroad after highly critical report February 8, 2021
The Netherlands has called a halt to all new adoptions from abroad in reaction to a highly critical report which condemned the role of government officials and highlighted a wide range of abuses, including corruption, forgery and child snatching.
‘The Dutch government has shown shortcomings by looking away from abuses in cross border adoptions and for not taking action,’ justice minister Sander Dekker said.
Dekker also said that children adopted from abroad deserved recognition of the mistakes made in the past, and help in the present.
‘Although many adoptions were experienced as positive, the government should have taken a more active role by intervening in cases where there was abuse,’ Dekker said. ‘The positive sentiment surrounding adoption in the last century – with the guiding idea that we did good with adoption – is an explanation, but no justification.’