By Bonnie Malkin and agencies
Last Updated: 2:10am BST 09/04/2008
Psychologists have warned that "Madonna-style" inter-country adoptions are causing a rise in the number of children left in orphanages.
Researchers from the University of Liverpool found that EU countries with the highest rates of children living in institutions also had high proportions of international adoptions.
This did not reduce the number the number of children in institutional care but attributed to an increase.
Madonna adopted a young boy from Malawi in 2006. Yesterday it emerged that she was also going to adopt a girl from India.
The study found that people in countries such as France and Spain are choosing to adopt healthy, white children from abroad rather than children from their own country.
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This appears to be a very myopic point of view. If some adopts, and elects to do a inter-country adoption, it may negatively affect the number of Orphans domestically, but the total number of Orphans doesn't increase.
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