Norway considers halting overseas adoptions as Denmark’s only international agency winds down work

By JAN M. OLSEN
Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s only overseas adoption agency says it is “winding down” its facilitation of international adoptions after a government agency raised concerns over fabricated documents and procedures that obscured children’s origins abroad. Danish International Adoption mediated adoptions in the Philippines, India, South Africa, Thailand, Taiwan and the Czech Republic. Last month, an appeals board suspended its work in South Africa. The Danish agency announced it was getting out of the international adoption business on the same day Norway’s top regulatory body recommended stopping all of the country’s overseas adoptions for two years pending an investigation. For years, some families in Europe, the United States and Australia have raised alarms about international election fraud