Adoption: what “price” to pay for adopted children?

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Haitian children arrive with their adopted French family at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport (Paris), December 22, 2010. REUTERS / Philippe Wojazer

By: Adrien Delgrange

1 min

Adoption and often love stories can turn to misunderstanding, because once adults, many adoptees sometimes come up against gray areas on the conditions of their adoption: lack of information, inconsistency in their file. even a lie.

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They want to understand why one day, often very young, without asking their opinion, they had to leave their country of origin to live elsewhere, far, very far from their place of birth.

Can we speak of an adoption scandal?

Many across the planet want to move the lines, change the rules, review the laws. 

To discuss it:

- Emmanuelle Hebert

, co-founder of the association Recognition of illicit adoptions in France (RAIF)

- Anne Royal

, president of the Childhood & Families association (EFA)

- Yves Denéchère

, professor of contemporary history at the University of Angers, specialist in international adoption, author of the book “

 ”, Armand Colin editions

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