The Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family examined the case of the adoption of three minors by a family from the United States following relevant press reports. According to the Ministry, the information provided by Tamara Plamadeala and Igor Caldare in a news conference is aimed at harming the honor, dignity and professional reputation of the institution and its employees, IPN reports.
In a communique, the Ministry says that the information was disseminated with the aim of instigating and manipulating public opinion. In 2013, the minors were given the status of adoptable children and started to be monitored by the Ministry, as provided by the law. “In February 2015, the Ministry of Labor received the required adoption documents from a U.S. couple, which met the conditions stipulated by law. No other applications came. Thus, the preliminary matching proposal for this couple was accepted in the meeting of the Consultative Council for Adoptions of July 2015. The same month, the Ministry received the couple’s consent, while in December – the consent of the central authorities of the U.S. This allowed initiating the procedure for matching the adopters and the adoptable children,” it is said in the communique.
The Ministry also said that no legal norm concerning the adoption of the given children was violated. “Therefore, the Ministry describes the statements as tendentious and erroneous interpretations of the legal provisions on child rights protection and is concerned about the consequences of such groundless assertions as these could affect the international adoption of Moldovan children and the children’s right to grow up in a family environment,” stated the Ministry.
The head of the Public Association “Child Defender” Tamara Plamadeala said three children from Moldova aged 9, 12 and 13 are in the process of being adopted by a family from the United States even if these refused the potential adoptive parents. According to her, the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family and the Chisinau General Child Rights Protection Division seriously violate the rights of these children who were put up for international adoption.
