{"id":2155,"date":"2009-02-18T15:27:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2011-03-23T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T15:30:28","slug":"foreign-adoptions-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/foreign-adoptions-down-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign adoptions down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/politiken.dk\/newsinenglish\/article652012.ece\" target=\"_blank\">politiken.dk<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>18. feb 2009\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/politiken.dk\/services\/rss_feeds\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>Danes are adopting fewer foreign children and more children from Danish spouses, according to the latest figures from Statistics Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 308 foreign children were adopted \u2013 the lowest figures in the 35 years statistics have been collated.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>China<br \/>\n<\/strong>Some of the foreign adoptions were stepchild adoptions \u2013 that is a spouse adopting the child of a partner. Two hundred and thirty two adoptions were into a new family, a fifth of them being children from China. Other major foreign adoption countries were Ethiopia, Thailand and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Denmark<br \/>\n<\/strong>On the other hand, the number of adoptions of children born in Denmark rose to 791 \u2013 the majority of which were stepchild adoptions, with only 67 Danish-born children having been adopted into a new family, by a family member or foster parents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men adopt partner\u2019s children<br \/>\n<\/strong>Of stepchild adoptions, a woman only adopted a man\u2019s children in 28 cases, whereas a man adopted a woman\u2019s child in 614 cases.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred and fifty eight children were adopted by one of those in a same-gender registered partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half of the stepchild adoptions were of children of 18 years of age or older.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by <a href=\"mailto:julian.isherwood@pol.dk\">Julian Isherwood<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: politiken.dk 18. feb 2009\u00a0 Danes are adopting fewer foreign children and more children from Danish spouses, according to the latest figures from Statistics Denmark. Last year, 308 foreign children were adopted \u2013 the lowest figures in the 35 years statistics have been collated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}