For subscribers
New laws planned to curb unethical adoption practices
Such practices will be made a crime, with fines or jail terms; Bill likely later this year
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
Theresa Tan Senior Social Affairs Correspondent and Goh Yan Han, Theresa Tan, Goh Yan Han
Follow topic:
Significant changes to adoption laws and practices are on the cards here, including moves to make unethical adoption practices a crime.
These practices could include "tricking parents into providing consent to give their child up for adoption, hiding important information during the adoption process and 'testing' a child's 'adoptability' as if they were up for sale", said the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).
