African child adoptions

The African Child Policy Forum says more than 41,000 African children have been sent overseas海外 for adoption in the past eight years. Most go to the United States, others to Western Europe and Canada. The situation is especially dramatic戲劇性 in Ethiopia which, the report says, now sends more children abroad國外 for adoption than any other country, apart from除了 China.

One reason for the increase in adoption from Africa is that it is more difficult to adopt children from countries in South America and Eastern Europe because many have limited or shut down overseas adoption programmes. As a result, the report says, countries such as the United States have turned en masse集體 to Africa to find children to adopt.

The African Child Policy Forum insists every child has the right to be reared飼養 in the country in which it was born, an opinion shared by Mr Bekele of the Abebech Gobena orphanage孤兒院 [in Ethiopia]: "We prefer local adoption to international adoption because the children will not be uprooted連根拔起 from their culture, from their people, and they will not forget their country or their language."

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