Dutch Government will sign the new EU Adoption Treaty

Ministry of Justice keeps Status Quo

A widespread letter from the Ministry of Justice to the House of Representatives but not published for the public, reveals that the Netherlands will sign the new EU Adoption Treaty.

United Adoptees International warned several years ago already for the silent movement within the European Union. Especially the European Commission, where the international adoptionlobby was represented to reform EU adoption laws to create a possibility of faster adoptions within Europe and to pull of adoptions which are now protected by Foster Care and International Children Rights (CRC).

The Adoption lobby ,existing foremost by (prospective/single) adopters and the homomovement, has been successful of using anti-discrimination statements to enforce adoptionrights for their own purposes without acknowledging the necessity of creating thresholds and protection measures for the most vulnerable ones in the adoption process, the parents and adoptees.

It seems that no one really cares and believe that governments act in the best interests of the vulnerable and weak citizens in the world.

Missing Representatives at International Conferences

Due to the missing representatives of adult adoptees last decades, to ensure their voice to be heard, the European Commission and European Parliament could speed up and execute their agenda's to create new loopholes in the new EU adoption law.

United Adoptees International was present at the last Strasbourg conference warned the public for the hidden agenda of the real interest of the designers and signatories of the treaty. One of the arguments which are been used now is the statement of the Dutch Ministry, saying that, equality of sexes and the non-marital status or single adoptions becomes possible within the EU. The essence of the treaty according to this letter is to create equal rights for wish-parents (adopters).

But no sentence or revision has been pulled of to protect and to facilitate parents in stressful situations who have to make the decision of relinquishment. Nor a change in the necessary (Post) Adoption Care has been given attention. And with no word, the interests of adoptees and their questions has been answered.

Again, the international community has been successful to silence adoptees and parents. Not because they are not there, but because the 'elite' of the western society executed a well managed exclusion of their voices by denying access to conferences and space to present their stories and researches.

The UAI was finally accepted to the Strasbourg conference after threatening with the EU Ombudsman. But as said with huge hesitation to let us in. It seems that the EU is afraid of critical voices which are based on meta-level instead of representing adoptees always as mascot's denying the relevance of the intrinsic and content based discourse of the adoption debate.

Open EU Adoption Market

With the new EU Adoption Law, the Netherlands and all signatories are accepting an international adoption market, lets say a new 'Schengen Adoption Treaty' where children can be freely moved and transported easier and faster from one country to another. A new chapter is add to the international child-caravan. Constructed and directed by and at EU Level.

Foster Children free for Intercountry Adoption ?

United Adoptees International is concerned that parties behind the new EU Law see this treaty as the next step of free Foster Children for international adoption. Meaning that those children who are right now in foster care , will soon be made available for intercountry adoption. Nevertheless the subsidiarity rule in the Hague Convention. The mantra of "in the interest of the child" will be used again but this time to create a new European Adoption Market.

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