A Swedish commission has recommended that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades
A Swedish commission has recommended that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decadesa report by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter detailing the Scandinavian country’s problematic international adoption system.
Monday’s recommendations were sent to Minister of Social Services Camilla Waltersson Grönvall. “The assignment was to investigate whether there had been irregularities that the Swedish actors knew about, could have done and actually did,”and the head of the commission, told a press conference. “And actors include everyone who has had anything to do with international adoption activities. "It includes the government, the supervisory authority, organization, municipalities and courts. The conclusion is that there have been irregularities in the international adoptions to Sweden.” The commission called on the government to formally apologize to adoptees and their families. Investigators found confirmed cases of child trafficking in every decade from the 1970s to the 2000s, including from Sri Lanka, Colombia, Poland and China. Singer said a public apology, besides being important for those who are personally affected, can help raise awareness about the violations because there is a tendency to download the existence and significance of the abuses.The AP and Frontline spoke with more than 80 adoptees in the U.S., Australia and Europe and examined thousands of pages of documents to reveal evidence of kidnapped or missing children ending up abroad, fabricated child origins, babies switched with one another and parents told their newborns were gravely sick or dead, only to discover decades later they’d been sent to new parents overseas. The Netherlands last year announced it would no longer allow its citizens to adopt from abroad. Denmark’s only international adoption agency said it was shutting down and Switzerland apologized for failing to prevent illegal adoptions. France released a scathing assessment of its own culpability. South Korea sent around 200,000 children to the West for adoptions in the past six decades, with more than half of them placed in the U.S. Along with France and Denmark, Sweden was a major European destination of South Korean children, adopting nearly 10,000 of them since the 1960s.
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