The Trinity College research examined the experiences of 180 children aged between two and 17 who have been adopted from abroad. The report found that children were 17 months old when adopted, 80 per cent had spent some time in institutional care and they came from 15 different countries.
Given the conditions in which they had typically spent their earliest months or years, the study found that most children had made an "extraordinary recovery".
Given the conditions in which they had typically spent their earliest months or years, the study found that most children had made an "extraordinary recovery".
Ireland has one of the highest rates of foreign adoptions in Europe with up to 500 foreign adoptions a year, compared with just 250 in much larger countries such as the UK, new research has found. A two-year study by the Children's Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin - commissioned by the Adoption Board - found the rate of inter-country adoption is now 10 times that of domestic adoption, which on average involves about 50 children a year. Experts yesterday said the reasons for the high rate include the relative scarcity of Irish children being offered up for domestic adoption and Ireland's failure to ratify an international convention regulating inter-country adoptions. The small number of Irish children being placed for adoption is due to a number of factors, including the protection of the family in the Constitution - which makes it almost impossible to adopt a child from a marital family - and a greater acceptance of children born outside marriage
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