Ukraine Parliament Passes Provision for Older Adoptive Parents

“The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has passed the law “On Amendments to the Family Code of Ukraine” (regarding adoption).

The law was supported by 256 MPs out of 332 registered in the parliament’s session hall.”

Parliament allowed older people to adopt children

[ForUm 9/9/11]

“Verkhovna Rada abolished a rule of maximum age gap of 45 years between the adoptive parents and children, whom they want to adopt.

For the same bill voted 256 members /

The law provides to withdraw from the current rate is now Family Code, which states that “the difference in age between the adopter and the child could not be more than 45 years.”

At the same time, Parliament retained the Family Code that adoptive parents can be a person over the child, whom he wants to adopt, at least 15 years.

At the same time, the main scientific and management expertise to welcome its output to the bill came out against a legislative proposal to abolish the fixed maximum age criterion.

In particular, management stressed that in many national laws provide for the restriction in age between the adoptive parents and children 40-45 years.

Recall President Viktor Yanukovych has authorized the Ministry of Social Policy to deal with adoption and child protection.

In May, the United Nations called on Ukraine to ensure that adoptions of children under 3 years.

Cabinet noted that in 2010 fewer adoptions of children by Ukrainians.

According to government statistics, in 2010, Ukrainians were adopted by 2247 children, whereas in 2009, according to the Ministry of Family, Youth and Sports, the Ukrainians adopted 2381 children.

In addition, on 16 June Parliament passed a law that governs the determination of categories of families belonging to large families.”

Rada removed age limits for adoptive parents of the child
[Korrespondent.net 9/9/11 google machine translated]

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