At a press conference on adoption, Mrs Helena Obeng Asamoah, Deputy Director of Ghana's Department of Social Welfare, "stressed that poverty should not be an excuse to separate children from their families to live in orphanages, but should be seen as a signal for the need to provide appropriate support to the family," according to this article from Ghana Business News. Furthermore, Mrs Victoria Natsu, Deputy Director, Department of Social Welfare, Justice Administration "noted that the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is concerned about the state of affairs with regards to inter-country adoption and had initiated moves to address the anomalies and inconsistencies in the practice."
