The bill on adoption, defended by LREM MP Monique Limon, must be validated Tuesday evening in the National Assembly.
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“The adoption system must be as close as possible to the reality of the evolution of today’s society”, defends on Tuesday February 8 on franceinfo the LREM deputy for Isère, Monique Limon, author of a bill on adoption which must be validated Tuesday February 8 in the National Assembly. The text proposes in particular to open up adoption to unmarried couples, or even “to lower the minimum age required for parents from 28 to 26”when they want to adopt.
franceinfo: What motivated your text?
Monica Limon: First of all, it was a report on the ethics of adoption that I submitted with Senator LR Corinne Imbert to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe at the time, in 2019. We noted that following the law of March 2016, simple adoption was not necessarily well implemented in all departments. What motivated us is that the adoption system must be as close as possible to the reality of the evolution of today’s society.
What do you want to change in detail?
I said to myself that, if at the time marriage was a guarantor of security and protection for children, it no longer represents this security today. Many couples would be able to adopt if unmarried couples were allowed to do so. This is what will happen with this bill. We also want to lower the minimum age requirement for parents from 28 to 26. The process of adoption is a fairly long process, not for administrative concerns but because it requires reflection and it sometimes requires adapting your project to the children. By lowering the age, it allows you to think well in advance and to be able to adopt while not being very old.
How many children are adopted in France each year?
All combined, that’s 12,000 children adopted each year in France. Babies are adopted very quickly and then when the children grow up, it’s a little more complicated. This is why this bill reinforces and improves the law of 2016 which allowed the examination of the files of young children very regularly so that they are adopted as quickly as possible.