Uma Feed came to Norway as an infant. 40 years later she found out that her birth parents never wanted to give her away.
Their fight against foreign adoption could mean the end of the practice, including in other countries. Adoptions are an extraordinary process, perhaps it is the most far-reaching administrative act that is possible in a constitutional state. In no other country were more children adopted from abroad in relation to the population than in Norway. More adoptions than anywhere else Norway has discussed its decades-long adoption practice in recent months.