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Number of kids who found adoptive parents here last year the highest in almost a decade
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Ms Lin Xiu Zhen and her husband Ivan Yeo with their daughter Zara, two, whom they adopted from Malaysia when she was one month old. About 30 per cent of the adoption applications in the past five years involved Singaporean children - the rest were mostly babies from Malaysia and Indonesia.
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The number of children who found adoptive parents here last year was the highest in almost a decade, as more couples suffer from fertility problems and become more open to adoption, said those who work with adoptive parents.
There were 432 adoption applications last year, preliminary figures from the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) showed. This is 15 per cent more than the 375 in 2017.
