14 febbraio 2025|
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|10 months agoSwitzerland Plans International Adoption Ban Following Historical Investigation
Swiss government moves to prohibit international adoptions after study reveals systematic irregularities in past practices, affecting thousands of cases between 1970-1999.
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- Swiss government plans to ban all international adoptions
- Investigation revealed systematic irregularities in adoptions between 1970-1999
- Several thousand children were brought to Switzerland through illegal practices
- Current international adoptions in Switzerland have dropped to around 30 per year
By The Numbers
1000
Annual adoptions in the 1980s
30
Current annual international adoptions
They Said
"There are always loopholes. We have kids who were born in California, from a surrogate mother where there's an open and legal process to have a mother for hire."
"We're going to prohibit it now when we have only 30 adoptions in Switzerland [a year], but in the Eighties we had a thousand."