{"id":4524,"date":"2009-04-22T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T10:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2014-04-14T10:53:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T10:53:49","slug":"netherlands-limits-adoptions-of-us-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/netherlands-limits-adoptions-of-us-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands limits adoptions of US children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5g2-M-kYml7bNRXjXMDIUQEHCe0cg\" target=\"_blank\">www.google.com\/hostednews<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>22 April 2009<\/p>\n<p>THE HAGUE (AFP) \u00c2\u2014 The Dutch government said Wednesday it would make it more<br \/>\ndifficult to adopt American children, who formed the third largest group of<br \/>\nforeign adoptions in the Netherlands last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The adoption of children from the United States will be subjected to stricter<\/p>\n<p>requirements,&#8221; the justice ministry said in a statement &#8212; explaining that small<br \/>\nchildren could easily be placed with American families.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;From a total of 767 foreign adoptions last year, 56 were of American children<br \/>\n&#8212; the third largest group after China and Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>Under Dutch adoption regulations, it was preferable for a child to be adopted<br \/>\nfrom within his own area or country. And investigations have shown that &#8220;small<br \/>\nchildren can easily find homes with American families,&#8221; said the statement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There appears to be no necessity to place these children outside the United<br \/>\nStates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the tougher criteria would not be applied to American children<br \/>\nof five years or older, those in foster care, or those who are difficult to<br \/>\nplace because of health problems or other special reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0www.google.com\/hostednews 22 April 2009 THE HAGUE (AFP) \u00c2\u2014 The Dutch government said Wednesday it would make it more difficult to adopt American children, who formed the third largest group of foreign adoptions in the Netherlands last year. &#8220;The adoption of children from the United States will be subjected to stricter requirements,&#8221; the justice ministry said&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/netherlands-limits-adoptions-of-us-children\/\" title=\"Read Netherlands limits adoptions of US children\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524"}],"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=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}