Families Urged To Adopt Children
MANILA, Philippines - Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman on Friday urged Filipino families to legally adopt children to provide stable homes for the growing number of orphaned, abandoned and neglected children in the country.
Soliman said legal adoption gives the child the same rights and duties as that of a biological child of the adoptive parents, including the right to use the surname of the adoptive parents.
“The DSWD is advocating legal adoption to provide stable homes to the growing number of children who are orphaned, abandoned or neglected and who are in need of families who will love, care and protect them,” Soliman said in a statement.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said there are 216 abandoned children housed at its Reception and Study Center for Children needing parental care.
Based on DSWD data, there were 6,558 children placed for domestic adoption from 2000 to 2011.
Source: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=774519&publicationSubCategoryId=63
