First hospital in Japan begins providing special adoption service

The new Japanese program will not charge money AND the biological parents will be kept on child’s registry. I am sure there were several  at JCICS. How dare they set a precedent of collecting no money and not erasing an adoptees’ family history!

“The Health Ministry said on Thursday that Fukuda Hospital in Kumamoto has been requested by the Japan Medical Association to provide a “special adoption service.” The OB-Gyn hospital has become the first medical institution in the country to provide such service and has already arranged two adoptions since May. The special commission was made by the JMA in order to prevent child abuse and abandonment by parents who could not take care of their children.

Children below 6 years of age may be put into adoption by the hospital, given that the hospital will receive nothing from adoptive parents. “Any dubious money flow should not accompany child adoption services,” said Shigeru Fukuda, the Medical Director of Fukuda Hospital. Parents who are interested to adopt a child from the hospital should have a lawyer instead. In Japan’s capital, a private adoption clinic faced criticisms when found out for receiving large amount of money from adoptive parents. [See our post here for more details]

With a family court’s approval, the biological parents’ legal relationship with the child will be abrogated. The child will then be added to the adoptive parents’ family registry. There will also be no need to mention that the child was adopted, thus they will be considered and treated as if a biological child. Compared to normal adoptions, the child’s biological parents are still mentioned in the family registry, and they are noted as an adopted child.”

First hospital in Japan begins providing special adoption service

[Japan Daily Pres 8/8/13 by Faith Aquino]

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