6 Nov 2010
‘The Irish Times’ reports that the recently enacted Adoption Act left voluntary adoption agencies in limbo. While the Act was supposed to implement the Hague Convention which is important for the protection of 400 foreign-born children adopted, the law leaves the small number of adoptive parents of Irish born babies in uncertainties.
DOMESTIC ADOPTIONS have been stalled by the enactment of the Adoption Act 2010 this week, causing frustration for those going through voluntary agencies, rather than the Health Service Executive. Several Irish-born babies in hospital or in care, who were about to be placed by those agencies, are now in limbo, putting them at risk of being too old to emotionally “attach” to adoptive parents by the time they are placed, say agency social workers.
Meanwhile, some adopted adults tracing their birth mothers have had this psychologically gruelling process stalled suddenly.
‘The Irish Times’ reports that the recently enacted Adoption Act left voluntary adoption agencies in limbo. While the Act was supposed to implement the Hague Convention which is important for the protection of 400 foreign-born children adopted, the law leaves the small number of adoptive parents of Irish born babies in uncertainties.
DOMESTIC ADOPTIONS have been stalled by the enactment of the Adoption Act 2010 this week, causing frustration for those going through voluntary agencies, rather than the Health Service Executive. Several Irish-born babies in hospital or in care, who were about to be placed by those agencies, are now in limbo, putting them at risk of being too old to emotionally “attach” to adoptive parents by the time they are placed, say agency social workers.
Meanwhile, some adopted adults tracing their birth mothers have had this psychologically gruelling process stalled suddenly.
