{"id":140356,"date":"2025-06-03T09:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/sweden-urged-to-end-international-adoptions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:10:58","slug":"sweden-urged-to-end-international-adoptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/sweden-urged-to-end-international-adoptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden urged to end international adoptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140356\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>A Swedish inquiry exposed systemic abuse in international adoptions, including how children were trafficked and taken without consent. A Swedish commission on Monday called for an end to international adoptions after uncovering widespread abuse and fraud spanning several decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;There have been confirmed cases of child trafficking in every decade from the 1970s to the 2000s, primarily in the context of private adoptions,&#8221; Anna Singer said as she handed her report to Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Gronvall, who said her department would review it. The investigation found that some children brought to Sweden were adopted without parental consent, falsely declared dead, or handed over by individuals who were not their legal guardians. &#8221;In some cases, they have also been given up by parents who did not understand the implications of consenting to international adoption,&#8221; Singer said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Swedish government knew of adoption irregularities<\/em><br \/>\nThe probe was launched in 2021 following a report by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, which exposed serious issues within the country&#8217;s international adoption system. &#8221;The conclusion is that there have been irregularities in the international adoptions to Sweden,&#8221; Singer said, adding that the government had been aware of these issues &#8221;very early on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anna Singer, a Swedish expert leading the country&#8217;s investigation into its international adoption practices, said her commission found &#8221;significant and systemic gaps&#8221; in documentation in Sweden concerning the origin of children adopted abroad. Investigators uncovered &#8221;significant and systemic gaps&#8221; in Sweden&#8217;s documentation of international adoptions, including false information about children&#8217;s birth dates, parentage, and adoption circumstances. The report also noted that Swedish regulations prioritized facilitating adoptions from abroad, with most handled by private organizations incentivized to place as many children as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of trafficking were reported from the 1970s through the 2000s, involving countries including Sri Lanka, Colombia, Poland, and China. The commission urged the government to issue a formal apology to adoptees and their families. Singer emphasized the need to raise awareness about the violations, noting a tendency to downplay their existence and significance. &#8221;The state needs to recognize the human rights violations that have occurred,&#8221; she said.International adoptions in Sweden have plummeted\u2014from over 900 in 1985 to just 14 so far in 2025, according to Adoptionscentrum.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/sweden-urged-to-end-international-adoptions\/a-72760399\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/sweden-urged-to-end-international-adoptions\/\">Sweden urged to end international adoptions<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[5941,1355,848,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-140356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-adoption","tag-child","tag-sweden","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}