Forced adoption
Forced adoption is the practice of forcefully taking children from their parents and placing them for adoption. It may refer to:
- Child selling
- Forced adoption in Australia
- Forced adoption in the United Kingdom
- Sixties Scoop, a period when Canadian child welfare agents had the authority to take indigenous children from their families for placement in foster homes so they could be adopted by white families.[1]
- Child abductions in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- "Forcibly transferring children of [a] group to another group" is genocide according to the Genocide Convention.[2]
- In April 2023, the Council of Europe voted overwhelmingly, with 87 in favor, 1 opposed, and 1 abstention, to deem the "deportations and forcible transfers of Ukrainian children and other civilians to Russian Federation or to Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied" as an act of genocide.[3]
See also
- Adoption fraud
- Human trafficking
- International adoption
- International child abduction
- Interracial adoption
- Transcultural adoption
- The forced deportation of inhabitants of an occupied region is a war crime according to the International Criminal Court[4]
References
- Dart, Christopher. "The Sixties Scoop Explained". CBC Docs POV. CBC. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide". www.ohchr.org. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 9 December 1948. Archived from the original on 13 April 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- Taylor, Harry; Henley, Jon; Sullivan, Helen (27 April 2023). "Council of Europe says Russian-forced deportation of children from Ukraine is 'genocide'". www.theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- "Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998". legal.un.org. United Nations. 1998. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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