DSWD calls on child adopters to take legal process
PARENTS with adopted childrend are urged to legitimize the adoption instead of resorting to fake birth certificates and risk being discovered by the government.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the region has been on a campaign encouraging adopting parents, explaining the easy legal process when taking on a child under their care.
According to DSWD Region I information officer Iryn delos Reye, the various aspects of adoption include eligibility requirements of adopters, financial costs, cancellation of adoption, and how to void simulated birth certificates, which is a common practice.
Delos Reyes explained that the simulation or tampering of birth certificate, wherein the adopting parents register the adoptee as their biological child in the birth certificate, is illegal and punishable under the law.
The DSWD official stressed that the process of legal adoption is not expensive and that the requirements are not steep, as she emphasized that adopters have to be motivated by a true sense of caring for homeless, unwanted children and children in difficult circumstances.
“Adopters need not be very rich, so long as they can provide a nurturing home and provide for the health and education needs of the child. Adoption fees particularly, acceptance fees of lawyers, depend on the adopting parents’ understanding wth their lawyers,” Delos Reyes said.
She said that there are currently 190 abandoned, neglected, and surrendered children who are temporarily placed in institutions and with foster parents, some of whom are already in the process of adoption. (PIA-Pangasinan)
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