Report recommends halting adoptions from abroad because of abuses: AD

A report about adoption in the Netherlands is asking to stop adoption from abroad. After civil worker, Tjubbe Joustra has noticed through studying cases for 30 years the abuse has done to the parents and children by the way of forgery, stealing of documents, and child trafficking. His study was concerned with Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. The report will be published on Monday.

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