Table 2. The status of national and inter-country adoption, by year
Year
National adoption
Intercountry adoption
Total
National adoption,
as % of total
2003
1,564
2,287
3,851
2004
1,641
2,258
3,899
2005
1,461
2,101
3,562
2006
1,332
1,899
3,231
2007
1,388
1,264
2,652
2008
1,306
1,250
2,566
2009
1,314
1,125
2,439
40.6%
12.0%
41.0%
41.2%
52.3%
50.9%
53.9%
* Source: Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2010
2) Questions
51. What are the specific reasons that the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and
Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption has not been ratified? What actions does the
Government plan to take to ensure that the children's rights are not violated in the process of
adoption or adoption dissolution and in relation to the management of the adoption-related data and
information? What is the reason that intercountry adoption remains predominant? And what measures
does the Government plan to undertake to address this situation?
3. Child abuse and neglect
1) Current situation
52. Despite the Government's consistent effort to prevent child abuse, the number of reported cases
of child abuse continued to increase until it reached 9,309 in 2009. In particular, the cases of
neglect and psychological abuse (two types of child abuse) are growing at the fastest rate and take
up the largest portions in the cases of child abuse. In this light, the Government is required to take
prompt actions to handle the cases of neglect and psychological abuse, as well as proactive
measures to prevent occurrence of those cases.
53. According to a report by the National Child Protection Agency in 2009, the number of reported
cases of repeated child abuse was 581, which underpins the need to provide consistent service to
both the victims and the offenders of child abuse. The Periodic Report proposes more training and
education programs, including cyber-education for the people responsible for reporting child abuse
cases (para. 252). However, the 2009 publication released by the National Child Protection Agency,
people who are not responsible for reporting child abuse takes up a much larger percentage (35,312
persons) than those with the reporting obligation (14,649 persons) in the total reported cases of
child abuse.
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