The local tutelage authorities not always can ensure a match between the adults who want to adopt and the adoptable children as the adopters are interested in children of an early age and without health problems, while the State Adoption Register contains mainly children older than seven who have health problems or couples of siblings and this makes the waiting period for adopters longer, IPN reports.
In a response provided to IPN, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection says the duration of an adoption process depends on the case, including on the period during which the required documents are provided, the period of matching that lasts for two-three months and the approval of adoption by court. These stages in national adoption usually last for seven-eight months.
The length of the matching procedure also depends on the case. After the adoption is accepted, the child is under the supervision of the local tutelage authority from the domicile of the adoptive parents or the central adoption authority in the accepting state, in case of international adoption, until the child turns 18. Post-adoption monitoring is performed by the authorities that are supervising the child, during two years of the acceptance of adoption. They present four reports during the first year (in a month, three, six and 12 months) and two reports during the second year (in six and 12 months).
In 2019, the foreigners adopted seven children from the Republic of Moldova: four girls and three boys. Two foreign couples accepted in their families by two siblings, while another three foreign families adopted by one child. Of the seven children adopted by foreigners in 2019, three were aged between three and six, two between seven and ten, while another two between 11 and 15.
The same year, Moldovan citizens adopted 80 children: 40 boys and 40 girls. Eighteen couples adopted by two siblings, while another three families by three siblings. When being adopted, 21 children were aged between 0 and 2, 40 between 3 and 6, 11 between 7 and 10, while 8 between 11 and 15.
All the foreign adopters expressed their readiness to adopt children older than three and with special needs.
The adoption application must contain the reasons why the couple wants a foreign child to grow in their family and the eventual readiness to adopt several children and/or children with special needs. The future adopter can also indicate the age and sex of the child they want to adopt.
