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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
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Theresa Tan Senior Social Affairs Correspondent and Goh Yan Han, Theresa Tan, Goh Yan Han
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).
