Adoptions

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Domestic adoptions increased in 2010 01 Jun 2011 According to Statistics Finland, adoptions in Finland in 2010 numbered 485, which was 85 more than one year earlier. Especially grew the number of domestic adoptions, 293, for there were 117 more of them than in the year before. The number of domestic adoptions grew mainly because internal adoptions within families of registered same-sex partnerships (122) increased clearly. The change was expected, because applying for internal adoption within the family only became possible for registered same-sex partnerships in the latter half of 2009. In 2009, 15 internal adoptions within the family were made among registered same-sex partnerships. Next release: 31 May 2012
Description:	The statistics on adoptions contain data about children adopted from Finland or abroad by a person or persons permanently resident in Finland. There may be either one or two adoptive parents. A new spouse of a child’s biological parent may also adopt his or her stepchild(ren). Data on adoptions are produced by the age, gender and country of birth of adopted children. Read full description >>>

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Statistics Finland

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Latest release:
Domestic adoptions increased in 2010
01 Jun 2011
According to Statistics Finland, adoptions in Finland in 2010 numbered 485, which was 85 more than one year earlier. Especially grew the number of domestic adoptions, 293, for there were 117 more of them than in the year before. The number of domestic adoptions grew mainly because internal adoptions within families of registered same-sex partnerships (122) increased clearly. The change was expected, because applying for internal adoption within the family only became possible for registered same-sex partnerships in the latter half of 2009. In 2009, 15 internal adoptions within the family were made among registered same-sex partnerships.

Next release:
31 May 2012

Description:

The statistics on adoptions contain data about children adopted from Finland or abroad by a person or persons permanently resident in Finland. There may be either one or two adoptive parents. A new spouse of a child’s biological parent may also adopt his or her stepchild(ren). Data on adoptions are produced by the age, gender and country of birth of adopted children.
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Referencing instructions:

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Adoptions [e-publication].
ISSN=1797-738X. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 9.2.2012].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/adopt/index_en.html.

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