{"id":4104,"date":"2024-10-18T18:34:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T01:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T01:41:33","slug":"international-child-adoptions-drop-sharply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/10\/18\/international-child-adoptions-drop-sharply\/","title":{"rendered":"International child adoptions drop sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>International adoptions of children from other countries, to the United States have collapsed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6.png 683w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6-600x364.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/international-adoptions-have-dropped-72-percent-since-2005-heres-why-91809\">International adoptions have dropped 72 percent since 2005 \u2013 here\u2019s why (theconversation.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last remaining large source has been China &#8211; which announced yesterday it will be banning international adoptions: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusf.org\/2024-10-17\/china-ends-international-adoption-reactions-range-from-shock-to-relief\">China ends international adoption. Reactions range from shock to relief | WUSF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reasons for the collapse of international adoptions include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Demographic changes &#8211; there are low fertility rates, and hence, far, fewer children, in much of the world<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Costs &#8211; costs of an international adoption are said to have risen a lot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Policy changes, including concerns over cross cultural adoptions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International adoptions of children from other countries, to the United States have collapsed, and with China ending adoptions, yesterday, will soon be near zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-regulatory","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}