In Tahiti, there is white sand, palm trees, paradisiacal lagoons and… massive adoption fraud, under the guise of an ancestral tradition called
Fa'a'amu.
In Polynesian custom, the
Fa'a'amu
allows a child to be taken care of by other people than his biological parents, often his grandparents, an uncle or an aunt.
For this, during a civil hearing, the court grants them in due form a delegation of parental authority.
The child never loses contact with his parents and will evolve within an extended family.
In Polynesia, it happens that simple adoptions are finally concluded, mainly for inheritance reasons.
But this practice of family solidarity rooted in Polynesian parenthood has largely passed the crystal clear waters of the Pacific atolls to become a godsend.
For several decades, taking advantage of the economic and social disarray of an extremely precarious population in which contraception
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