The Flemish NGO Kind en Gezin (Child and Family) has published figures that show that more than 50 % of the applications for adoption in Flanders came from gay or lesbian couples. A total of 577 adoption requests were filed and 294 of those were by lesbians and gays. The majority were lesbian couples who wanted to make the partner an official mother of the child(ren) of an earlier relationship of the other partner. Otherwise put: most adoptions have as main purpose to regularize an existing situation. This brings more protection for the child in case something happens with its previous single parent.
Gays can adopt since July 2006, so it is to be expected that the figures will drop once most gay families have regularized their situation. Adoption of foreign babies by gay couples is less frequent. A lot of third world countries don't want the children they put up for adoption to go to gay couples. It seems they think those children are better of in an orphanage or living on the streets than being lovingly cared for by parents of the same sex. The victims of this incomprehensible and backward mentality are of course not so much the gay couples whose opportunities to adopt are restricted, but the children whose future is jeopardized by this bigotry.

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Lev Raphael - Flanders? IP:24.11.175.188 | 2006-12-18 21:48 Hi: My parents lived in Bruxelles for 5 years, my mother learned français, my father Vlaams, and I've travelled there twice. Anyway, do you mean that half the adoptions in Flanders are by gays? Or that half the adoptions in all of Belgium are by gays? Your news is being reported in the US on blogs as pertaining to all of Belgium and that Flanders = Belgium. Reply | Quote 0   0

Ivo Moelans - Flanders - Belgium Publisher | 2006-12-19 01:19 Hi, I have seen those sites and I know some equal Flanders with Belgium. I just started this blog and I realized that Belgium is a very complicated country. I do plan to explain this in a separate section, eventually. Last week the RTBF (French speaking Belgian Radio and Television) aired a fake news bulletin that Flanders had unilaterally declared independence. Although this is ridiculous on many, many levels, more than 80 % of the Walloons panicked. How am I going explain all this in a blog meant for foreigners? But, to answer your question: the figures are for Flanders (the name of the NGO "Kind en Gezin" should have been a clue). Nevertheless I understand your confusion. Reply | Quote 0   0

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