{"id":1082,"date":"2008-08-26T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2010-09-06T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T12:33:08","slug":"adoption-france-wants-to-attack-their-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/adoption-france-wants-to-attack-their-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"La France veut combler son retard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: Figaro<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Juliette Chain et Agn\u00e8s Leclair<\/p>\n

Unofficial translation from<\/p>\n

Adoption : la France veut combler son retard<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to the funding of humanitarian projects, the USA, but also Italy and Spain, host many more children from abroad.
\nParis prepareS itself to copy their more efficient methods.<\/p>\n

Everyone starts doing it. In respect of Intercountry Adoption, competition is rife among the receiving countries in recent years. With some delay, France is preparing to change its methods after a decline of 20.5% last year, with only 3 162 foreign children adopted by French couples.<\/p>\n

Nadine Morano and Rama Yade, respectively secretaries of State for Family and Foreign Affairs, today present their plan to revive adoption (see below). Other countries, thanks to a very proactive policy, succeeded in reversing the declining numbers of international adoptions. France, despite all being in the top three of receiving countries, is thus far behind the USA and has been overtaken by Spain where the number of adoptions has quadrupled in less than ten years. While there are several possible reasons for this decline: growth of domestic adoption in countries like China, slowing adoption procedures to adapt to the Hague Convention, which regulates the practices\u2026 But in this context , Italy has still seen its international adoptions jump by 9%.<\/p>\n

Competition can be played within orphanages. In its bilateral agreements, Vietnam, for example, requires funding for a humanitarian project. “For a project, the French agencies approved for adoption (OAA) can give about 15 000\u00a0euros. The Americans will have an envelope at least twice as large. Their adoption agencies operate like private businesses, “says someone from Doctors of the World. “The orphanages say<\/p>\n

that children are not assigned based on money received, but there is a principle of reality that we can not ignore,” he yet deplores.<\/p>\n

The financial weight of the USA, which generates more than half of international adoptions, can not be ignored. “France, can invest in major works such as construction of a hospital but did not provide money for projects to link more directly with children and adoption,” another OAA regrets.<\/p>\n

Italian families less demanding Projects that sometimes flirt with the limits of the framework imposed by the Hague Convention. “When agencies are working on programs to prevent abandonment and are also doing adoptions, how do you know if everything is done for a mother to keep her child? Especially if there is a financial issue behind “asks Stephanie Romanens-Pythoud, a lawyer at the International Social Service.<\/p>\n

In terms of humanitarian projects, Italy, for its part is illustrated by an effective policy, with funding from the central authority. Actions which are also valued by diplomatic channels. “The State finances the full cost of Italian OAA \u2013 offices, local correspondents – which leaves them the money to build research teams,” says Gilbert<\/p>\n

Bayon, president of Children of Queen of Mercy, which operates Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. “These research teams criss-cross the country to find small orphanages not identified by authorities hosting adoptable children.” Even if it is then the<\/p>\n

Government of Burkina Faso that “assigns” the children in hosting families, “this aid for the census weighs heavy, “points out Gilbert Bayon.<\/p>\n

But “good” results of Italy have another cause: the host families have understood that they had to be less demanding. In France, only 23% of adopted children are more than five years. In Italy, this figure exceeds 50%. However, this practice has been directly encouraged by the Italian authorities. In Peru, the “Angel che guardan” programme was created to boost the adoption of already big children. Finally, the good implantation of Italian nuns in orphanages in countries of origin would also favours assigning children to their compatriots. The Spanish enjoy the same advantage.<\/p>\n

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La France veut combler son retard<\/p>\n

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\nLe bureau des adoptions de P\u00e9kin. Cr\u00e9dits photo : Maro KOURI\/IML Image Group-REA<\/p>\n

Gr\u00e2ce au financement de projets humanitaires, les \u00c9tats-Unis, mais aussi l’Italie ou l’Espagne, accueillent beaucoup plus d’enfants venus de l’\u00e9tranger. Paris s’appr\u00eate \u00e0 copier leurs m\u00e9thodes plus performantes.<\/p>\n

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Tout le monde s’y met. En mati\u00e8re d’adoption internationale, la concurrence fait loi parmi les pays d’accueil depuis quelques ann\u00e9es. Avec un peu de retard, la France s’appr\u00eate \u00e0 changer ses m\u00e9thodes apr\u00e8s un recul de 20,5\u00a0% l’an dernier, avec seulement 3\u00a0162 enfants \u00e9trangers adopt\u00e9s par des couples fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n

Nadine Morano et Rama Yade, respectivement secr\u00e9taires d’\u00c9tat \u00e0 la Famille et aux Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, pr\u00e9sentent aujourd’hui leur plan pour relancer l’adoption (lire ci-dessous). D’autres pays, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une politique tr\u00e8s volontariste, ont r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 enrayer la baisse du nombre d’adoptions internationales. La France, malgr\u00e9 tout dans le trio de t\u00eate des pays d’accueil, figure ainsi loin derri\u00e8re les \u00c9tats-Unis et s’est fait doubler par l’Espagne o\u00f9 le nombre d’adoptions a quadrupl\u00e9 en moins de dix ans. Certes, plusieurs raisons peuvent expliquer cette baisse\u00a0: croissance de l’adoption nationale dans des pays d’origine comme la Chine, ralentissement des proc\u00e9dures d’adoption pour s’adapter \u00e0 la convention de La\u00a0Haye qui r\u00e9glemente les pratiques\u2026 Mais dans ce contexte, l’Italie a tout de m\u00eame vu ses adoptions internationales bondir de 9\u00a0%.<\/p>\n

La concurrence peut se jouer au sein m\u00eame des orphelinats. Dans ses accords bilat\u00e9raux, le Vietnam, par exemple, exige le financement d’un projet humanitaire. \u00abPour un projet, les organismes agr\u00e9\u00e9s pour l’adoption (OAA) fran\u00e7ais peuvent donner environ 15\u00a0000\u00a0euros. Les Am\u00e9ricains auront une enveloppe au moins deux fois plus importante. Leurs agences d’adoption fonctionnent comme des entreprises priv\u00e9es\u00bb, indique-t-on chez M\u00e9decins du monde. \u00abLes orphelinats affirment que les enfants ne sont pas attribu\u00e9s en fonction des sommes re\u00e7ues mais il y a un principe de r\u00e9alit\u00e9 qu’on ne peut pas ignorer\u00bb, y d\u00e9plore-t-on encore.<\/p>\n

Le poids financier des \u00c9tats-Unis, pays qui r\u00e9alise plus de la moiti\u00e9 des adoptions internationales, ne peut \u00eatre ignor\u00e9. \u00abLa France, elle, sait investir dans des gros travaux tels que la construction d’un h\u00f4pital mais ne donne pas d’argent pour des projets plus directement en lien avec l’enfance et l’adoption\u00bb, regrette-t-on dans un autre OAA.<\/p>\n

Les familles italiennes moins exigeantes<\/h3>\n

Des projets qui flirtent parfois avec les limites du cadre impos\u00e9 par la convention de La\u00a0Haye. \u00abQuand des organismes travaillent sur des programmes de pr\u00e9vention de l’abandon et font aussi de l’adoption, comment savoir si tout est fait pour qu’une m\u00e8re garde son enfant\u00a0? Surtout s’il y a un enjeu financier derri\u00e8re\u00bb, s’interroge St\u00e9phanie Romanens-Pythoud, juriste au Service social international.<\/p>\n

En mati\u00e8re des projets humanitaires, l’Italie s’illustre pour sa part par une politique efficace, avec un financement des r\u00e9alisations par l’autorit\u00e9 centrale. Des actions qui sont \u00e9galement valoris\u00e9es par voies diplomatiques. \u00abL’\u00c9tat finance l’int\u00e9gralit\u00e9 des d\u00e9penses des OAA italiennes – locaux, correspondants sur place – ce qui leur laisse de l’argent pour constituer des \u00e9quipes de recherche, raconte Gilbert Bayon, pr\u00e9sident de Les Enfants de reine de mis\u00e9ricorde, qui op\u00e8re au Burkina Faso et en \u00c9thiopie. \u00abCes \u00e9quipes de recherche sillonnent le pays pour trouver de petits orphelinats non recens\u00e9s par les autorit\u00e9s h\u00e9bergeant des enfants adoptables.\u00bb M\u00eame si c’est ensuite au gouvernement burkinab\u00e9 d’\u00abattribuer\u00bb les enfants aux familles d’accueil, \u00abcette aide au recensement p\u00e8se lourd\u00bb, pointe Gilbert Bayon.<\/p>\n

Mais les \u00abbons\u00bb r\u00e9sultats de l’Italie ont une autre cause\u00a0: les familles d’accueil ont compris qu’elles devaient se montrer moins exigeantes. En France, seuls 23\u00a0% des enfants adopt\u00e9s ont plus de cinq ans. En Italie, ce chiffre d\u00e9passe les 50\u00a0%. Or, cette pratique a \u00e9t\u00e9 directement encourag\u00e9e par les autorit\u00e9s italiennes. Au P\u00e9rou, notamment, le programme \u00abAngel che guardan\u00bb a \u00e9t\u00e9 cr\u00e9\u00e9 pour relancer l’adoption des enfants d\u00e9j\u00e0 grands. Enfin, la bonne implantation de religieuses italiennes dans les orphelinats des pays d’origine favoriserait aussi l’attribution d’enfants \u00e0 leurs compatriotes. Les Espagnols jouiraient du m\u00eame atout.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Le plan du gouvernement veut impliquer davantage les familles<\/a>
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