PROBLEMATICA ADOPŢIEI INTERNAŢIONALE

Valerica CELMARE; Victor PĂDURARU

Valerica CELMARE Dunarea de Jos University of Galati
Victor PĂDURARU Dunarea de Jos University of Galati

Keywords: international adoption, the best interests of the child, the cultural perspective in international adoption, legislative policies on international adoptions, child trafficking, organizations accrediting in international adoption

Abstract

This study aims to describe the issues specific to international adoption. The author starts from a short presentation of the history of international adoptions in the Republic of Moldova and the specific conditions for making international adoptions in the Republic of Moldova. International adoption has a number of peculiarities, because besides the specific problems that the integration of the child in the adoption family (such as the problems of age, personality and availability between child and family) increase, others factors such as cultural differences and physical differences (color, height, language, race, etc.) between the child and adoptive parents. Another factor that influences international adoptions is legislative policies on international adoptions, policies that can encourage or aggravate the process of international adoption. Although, in essence, international adoption has a noble purpose, to provide children with permanent families, in practice they also encountered situations of irregularities (child trafficking, violations of principle and violations of the law) that led to a negative perception on the process of international adoption.