Over 280 children in Serbia awaiting adoption

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16. avg. 2023. 11:22
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Thirty-seven children from Serbia have been adopted since the beginning of the year, of which five in the intercountry adoption procedure, while there is a list of 286 children eligible for adoption in the Unified Adoption Register kept with the Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography, reports the daily Vecernje Novosti.

The same register contains the names of 793 potential adoptive parents who signed up by 2022, some of them as far back as in 2006.

A total of 2,089 children have been adopted since 2006 – 1,811 in Serbia and 278 abroad.

Most of the children who enter the adoption process are from foster care, and fewer from orphanages.

There are some 4,500 foster families in Serbia taking care of approximately 6,000 children and seven centers for foster care and adoption, which monitor the foster families.

There has been a decline in foster homes over the past few years, so the Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography is soon to launch a regional campaign to promote foster care and foster parent training programs.

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