CHILD ADOPTION (Number of applications)
Parliament of Singapore · 18 February 2005
Official Report, 18 February 2005, Vol 79, Issue 7 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)
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CHILD ADOPTION:
(Number of applications): 13.
Mr Zainudin Nordin asked the Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports (a) how many Singaporean couples have applied for child adoption in the past five years (2000 -
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2004); (b) what is the success rate of their applications; and (c) how many of these children are from foreign countries.
Mr Speaker: Mrs Yu-Foo, you have two-and-a-half minutes.
The Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports (Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon) (for the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports): Mr Speaker, Sir, in the past five years (ie, 2000 to 2004), 3,276 Singaporean couples applied for child adoption. The average success rate is 98%. Of the children put up for adoption, 2,196 were from foreign countries.
Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 18 February 2005. Republished on SGParliament.