Welcome to Swedish Friends of Children
Swedish Friends of Children is an authorized, non-profit adoption society that has worked for more than 30 years with finding families for children through inter-country adoption.
Since the start of 1979, Swedish Friends of Children has helped more than 2,000 children find adoptive homes in Sweden. Last year 64 children came to Swedish families with our help. Today we work with China, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Hongkong.
We are authorized by the Swedish Intercountry Adoptions Authority and we work within the terms of the Hague Convention and the United Nations Children’s Convention. These international rules for adoption state:
- The best interests of the child are of primary concern
- The main purpose of adoption is to provide children who cannot live with their biological families with a new, permanent family of their own
- Those responsible for the children must choose the most suitable environment for each individual child
- The biological parents, if known, must be provided with adequate counselling and time before making decisions that will affect the child’s life
- By preference, children should be placed with a family in their country of origin.
- Those involved in adoptions must not take any kind of inappropriate profit, financially or otherwise.