Original French article: http://www.liberation.fr/societe/01012321757-l-academie-de-medecine-veut-faciliter-l-adoption-nationale

Original report by the French Academy of Medecine: http://www.academie-medecine.fr/Upload/Mantz_rapp_15fevr_2011.pdf

The finding of the latest report on adoption by the French Academy of Medecine should insire France, but also Ireland, to have a hard look at how children’s best interest are not served by making domestic adoptions so hard.

At the same time, some support group for people suffering financial hardship want to avoid children being removed fromloving families because of poverty.

In France, domestic adoptions can leave children waiting for 5 to 6 years, and they have halved in 20 years, with intercountry adoptions being multiplied by 4.

The recommendation includes allowing children to avial of adoption services even without a heavy legal procedure, especially when they are abused by their birth family. Doctors shoudl be forced to report such abuse, while today they can legaly decide not to. Delay in determining that burth parents have demonstrated a “lost of interest” in their children should be reduced from 1 year to 6 months, after which they can avail of adoption.