Saxony-Anhalt: 230 children and young people adopted in Saxony in 2021

Kamenz (dpa/sa) - A total of 230 children and young people were adopted in Saxony in 2021.

Saxony-Anhalt: 230 children and young people adopted in Saxony in 2021

Kamenz (dpa/sa) - A total of 230 children and young people were adopted in Saxony in 2021. That was 15 fewer than in 2020, as the State Statistical Office announced on Wednesday in Kamenz. The majority of them (63 percent) were accepted by the stepparents, so there was no change in the living situation of the children and young people. Around a third of the children were not related to the adopting parents. Most were children under the age of six.

At the end of 2021, 179 children were reportedly in foster care, the probationary period for children and potential parents. It turned out that many adoption requests had little chance of success: the adoption agencies received 226 applications for 54 children who were marked for adoption.