Report of the Adoption Board 1990
| dc.contributor.author | Adoption Board | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-11T15:59:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-11T15:59:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-11-11 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/251732 | |
| dc.description | The Board has the honour to present its thirty-eighth Annual Report for the year ended 31st December, 1990. The Board received 660 applications for adoption orders in 1990. Applications for children being adopted within their natural family increased from 257 in 1989 to 294 in 1990. These cases accounted for 45% of the applications received. The number of applications for the adoption of children placed by the health boards and the registered adoption societies continues to decline. The Board received 319 such applications in 1990 compared with 378 in the previous year. The Board received a substantial number of queries concerning foreign adoptions, particularly in relation to the adoption of Romanian children. The upsurge in interest in the adoption of children from abroad, particularly Romania, is reflected in the number of applications received by the Board for Irish adoption orders for such children (36). Twenty-seven of the applications were for Romanian children and nine were for children from Brazil, Colombia, Peru, India and the Lebanon. The Board made 648 adoption orders in 1990 compared with 615 in 1989. Family adoptions accounted for 268 orders, of which 232 orders were made in favour of the child's natural mother and her husband. The processing of applications for the adoption of children corning within the scope of the Adoption Act 1988 again accounted for a considerable portion of the Board's work. Last year the Board received 13 new applications. The Board made 17 declarations in favour of foster parents under the Adoption Act, 1988. Nine of the declarations were for children born within marriage. In 1990 the High Court made orders under the Adoption Act, 1988 authorising the adoption of seven children. The Board duly made adoption orders for the children concerned. Five of the children were foundlings, one was born within marriage and one was born outside marriage. | en_GB |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Adoption Authority of Ireland | en_GB |
| dc.subject | ADOPTION | en_GB |
| dc.subject | HEALTH BOARDS SERVICES | en_GB |
| dc.title | Report of the Adoption Board 1990 | en_GB |
| dc.type | Report | en |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-23T02:15:01Z |
