Support for Adoptees and Adoptive Families
Support for Adoptees and Adoptive Families
Adoption and post-adoption services
Post-adoption services to ensure adoption remains child-centered and reflects children’s interests
The NCRC pursues child-centered adoption services and provides post-adoption services to protect the best interests of the child.
Legal basis: Child Welfare Act, Article 10-2, Paragraph 2, Subparagraph 9; Act on Special Cases Concerning Adoption, Articles 25, 29, and 36; Enforcement Decree, Articles 14 and 15
Major projects
Research on adoption policy
- Creating reports on compliance with the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption and survey of member nations on its fulfillment
- Revising the Act on Special Cases Concerning Adoption and adoption manual
Post-adoption services
- Supporting adoptees in their search for their biological parents
- Assisting internationally adopted people to gain citizenship of their adoptive country
- Post-adoption programs for adoptees and adoptive families
- Assisting international adoptees at risk
Educating the public about adoption
- Leading public campaigns for improving public awareness of adoption
- Celebrating Adoption Day and engaging in on- and off-line promotion
Education for adoptive parents and adoption workers
- Educating adoptive parents, foster parents, and adoption workers in accordance with the Act on Special Cases Concerning Adoption
- Educating adoptive parents who have gone through civil law adoption.
Operation of an integrated adoption management system
- Digitalizing adoption records and adoption database
- Archiving adoption documen ts