➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
International: Breaking the adoption taboo in Dubai
The Islamic Monthly – April 11, 2016
In the UAE and in many other Muslim countries, many people eschew the idea of adopting a child. Some concerns are religious and others are cultural. While Islam highly stresses the importance of caring for orphans, it forbids stripping away a child’s sense of his or her own biological lineage and biological rights, as commonly happens under conventional adoption procedures.