LRC urges pre-adoptive counselling for immigrant mothers

MOTHERS who do not speak English and place their child up for adoption should be given pre-adoptive counselling, a law reform report recommended yesterday.

LRC urges pre-adoptive counselling for immigrant mothers

Following the Tristan Dowse scandal, the Law Reform Commission (LRC) examined the issue of inter-country adoptions.

Tristan became known nationwide two years ago when it emerged that in 2001, Wicklow man Joe Dowse and his wife adopted the two-month-old Indonesian. Two years later, they decided the adoption wasn’t “working out” and left him in an orphanage in Jakarta.

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