Tens of thousands of displaced children in Ukraine — as well as refugee children in surrounding nations — need financial and medical assistance from overseas and not adoption bids, experts in the field said this week.
“There are some U.S. families who are offering to adopt children from Ukraine,” Elli Oswald, executive director of Faith to Action said in an interview. “While there are children who’ve been separated from their families, these children do not need adoptive families at this time. At this point, every effort needs to be made to locate their relatives, their kin, or other personal connections.”