Adoptions of foreign children by French families are increasing. They rose 14% year on year from 3,017 in 2009 to 3,504 in 2010, according to statistics from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, quoted by Le Figaro on Wednesday 12 January. Haitian children arrive well ahead of such adoptions, after the earthquake that devastated the island in early 2010.In 2010, 992 of them have been adopted against 653 a year ago. "This is an acceleration of the proceedings before the earthquake, not new adoptions," said the Ambassador in charge of international adoption, Jean-Paul Monchau. Then comes Vietnam (469 adoptions in 2010), Colombia (369) or Ethiopia (352) and Russia (301).
This 14% increase over one year (7% excluding Haiti) explained Monchau says, by "good relations with certain countries [that] allow the French to resist global trend of decline in the supply.
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