Haiti working for Passing Adoption Reform

Based on the poor state of the country's adoption system, the Haitian governments moved to reform and strengthen its legislation on the adoption process of Haitian children. According to several officials, the proposed reform in legislation is committed in ensuring that the state's obligation to the protection of children is being met. It included the policy of having both biological parents to give legal consent when filing their child for adoption. Other requirements noted in the new legislation is that couples trying to adopt a child should have been married for at least five years, with one of them being at least 30 years of age while a single individual filing to adopt should be at least 35 years of age. It has already been thoroughly discussed and documented in the Senate and is now awaiting an approval from the country's Houses of Parliament.

The handling of international adoption shall be done by Haitian government's social welfare industry under General Director Arielle Jeanty Villedrouin, in line with Hague Adoption Convention's requirements and the prohibition of adoptions that have not been authorized by the government. This is in line with the alarmingly increasing number of smuggled children in the Caribbean archipelago.

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