An interministerial inspection mission (Foreign Affairs, justice, childhood) delivered a harsh report on Wednesday. 120,000 French people have been adopted abroad since 1945, especially from the 1960s, with a predilection for children from Asia and Latin America.
A record number of 4,136 children born abroad were adopted by French parents in 2005, the year the French Adoption Agency was created. There were only 421 in 2019, and 232 in 2022, proof that the new procedures have put an end to deviance.