Rayagada,(Badal Tah) : District Collector approved the adoption order of a girl child by a foreign couple from New Zealand

The girl child was handed over to the couple at IDS Specialised Adoption Agency Center in the presence of 
ADM Nihar Kamhar, Members of the Child Wlefare Commitee and officers of the District Child Protection Unit.
The Secretary of the Institution Devendra Kumar Beher and other staff were present in this hand over session.

The Kerala High Court dismissed a Regular First Appeal preferred against the Decree and Judgment of the Principal Sub-Judge, Alappuzha.;

The Kerala High Court held that a Baptism Certificate alone would not suffice the necessity of a valid adoption by the Christians. 

The Court held thus in a Regular First Appeal preferred against the Decree and Judgment of the Principal Sub-Judge, Alappuzha.

A Single Bench of Justice A. Badharudeen observed, "Baptism certificate alone showing the name of adopted parents would not suffice the necessity of a valid adoption and long association of a member of the adopted family would not also confer status of adopted child on a person."

The Bench elucidated that there is no prohibition in Canon Law for having a valid adoption but there is no personal law in India applicable to Christians recognizing adoption.

Italy's right-wing government headed by Premier Giorgia Meloni has opposed singles' adoptions in court, but the country's centre-left opposition hailed Friday's ruling as a “historic turning point.”

Italy's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday (March 21, 2025) that unmarried people can adopt foreign minors, ending a 40-year-ban on the practice and setting a precedent that could pave the way to allowing Italian singles to adopt from within the country.

Friday's court ruling declared unconstitutional the exclusion of singles from international adoptions under a 1983 Italian law, which allowed only married couples to pursue international adoptions.

According to Italy's top court, the exclusion of single people risked undermining "the effectiveness of the child's right to grow up in a stable and harmonious family environment.”

The court decision also reflects concerns among adoption advocates over a downward trend in Italy's international adoption over the past few years, due to increasing difficulties for couples in completing adoptions abroad and the high costs related to the lengthy process.

A woman in the city was cheated of ₹7,500 on the promise of adopting a baby.

Radha (name changed) was shown a video by her sister, where with a payment of ₹12,500, a baby could be adopted from a hospital. Radha had emailed the organisation, mentioning the video regarding the adoption. They contacted her through a fake email of the Child Welfare Board, asking her to pay the amount and collect the baby at the Government Children Hospital in Egmore between 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Ms. Radha paid ₹7,500 of the total amount, but could not pay the rest due to network issues. “I visited the hospital to verify if the adoption was authentic. My husband and I have been trying to have a child for 14 years. We even approached the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) in the State, but due to the elaborate process and long wait time, we did not go through with it,” she said.

According to sources in the hospital, this is the first time such a scam was done online. “We spoke to the victim. She was not aware of the scam,” said a doctor from the hospital. The authorities have registered a complaint with the police.

Speaking on the incident, an official from the Child Welfare Committee said that this is recurring scams. “There is a need to create awareness on adoption among the public. Parents can adopt children only through the CARA and the State Adoption Resource Agency,” he added.

After 27 years of separation, Ms. Nguyen Trung Hiep tearfully reunited with her newborn twin daughters, who had been entrusted to a French couple to raise. She said, "I just hope you don't hate me."

Two days after meeting her biological daughter who came from France to Vietnam to find her, Mrs. Nguyen Trung Hiep (55 years old, residing in Xuyen Moc commune, Xuyen Moc district, Ba Ria province - Vung Tau) happily recounted the unexpected reunion after 27 years of separation and the difficult circumstances of the family during these years.

Speaking to VietNamNet reporter , Ms. Hiep said she was born and raised in Xuyen Moc commune, Xuyen Moc district. In 1997, after going through a "marriage," she married Mr. Nguyen Van Tien (residing in Hoa Hiep commune, Xuyen Moc district) and later gave birth to twin girls, Nguyen Thi Kim Hong and Nguyen Thi Kim Loan, in October 1998.

She said that at that time, her family was in a very difficult situation. She and her husband had to work for others, but they still had no money to eat. At that time, learning that many foreign couples were coming to Vietnam to adopt children, they intended to give one of the two Hong sisters up for adoption in the hope that their child would have a better life.

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On 20 Nov 2024, I presented online to a forum on Post Adoption attended by the Hague Central Authorities responsible for intercountry adoption as signatory countries. This forum is held yearly and shared between the Hague countries. The 2024 forum was hosted by the governments of Australia and New Zealand. One part of my presentation was to talk about the importance of engaging lived experience in the design and ownership of post adoption support services.

An excellent example of living the motto of “nothing about us without us”, is that in Australia, we intercountry adoptees have been very proactive in engaging with our federal government and in response, the Department of Social Services (DSS) have actively engaged our community to be consulted in the design of our post adoption services (PAS).

We’ve learnt how to do this better and better over time. For the first 5 year contract in which PAS was provided, the Australian government engaged an independent organisation to run our Community Stakeholder workshop consultations. The independent organisation also ran 1:1 consultations and small group discussions. For the Community Stakeholder workshops, as adoptees, we attended in person in each city of Australia where a white person facilitator stood up, with no lived experience and asked us questions about the post adoption support and what we thought of it.

Our feedback for these sessions told of the frustration we experienced as adoptees, to be engaged by a facilitator who had no idea of our experiences or the services. It slowed down the discussions because the facilitator had little idea of what we were talking about and it was like we had to educate the facilitator as we went. 

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Bowling Green, has joined House and Senate colleagues in a bipartisan letter to President Donald Trump, urging him to work directly with the Chinese government to resolve the bureaucratic impasse preventing American families from completing adoptions that had been approved before China shut down its intercountry adoption program.

The letter stated, “We write to you on behalf of hundreds of children and American families who have been devastated by the People’s Republic of China’s decision to halt its intercountry adoption program. We request that you act in the best interest of these children and engage the Chinese government to finalize these pending adoption cases.”

In the letter, the lawmakers stressed the urgency of the situation.

“The sudden termination of China’s adoption program in August 2024 only exacerbated our concern for these children’s well-being. Many of these children have special health care needs, and some will soon age out of care systems without the support of a permanent family. … We urge you to elevate this engagement and press the Chinese government to finalize pending adoption cases so these children may finally be united with their adoptive families in the United States.”

A U.S. State Department notice last November suggested China may allow adoptions to resume for families in certain countries. The lawmakers are making it clear: the U.S. must be included in any such arrangement. American families must not be left behind, and the administration must press the Chinese government to allow these adoptions to move forward through diplomatic channels, without intervention, hundreds of children remain in limbo, despite their adoptions already being approved.

olkata: A 52-year-old India-born US citizen is now in Kolkata, scouring B T Road and neighbourhoods along the Kolkata-Barrackpore route, trying to retrace her roots from the labyrinth of govt and adoption-home records and the cobwebs of a six-year-old girl's memory.

Tempori Thomas was five when she got lost from her old home and six when she found a new home around 13,000km away in Minnesota, US. "I got lost on a short-distance local train ride on December 14, 1977 while out picking firewood and charcoal for preparing dinner for my family," Thomas said.

She can recall Khardah police station, where she reached — with a stranger's help — after two days of straying. She stayed there for a day and was shifted to a home for widows, until she ended up at Presidency jail in Dec.

She stayed there until Sept 1978, before she was flown out to Minnesota with help of an orphanage and adoption NGO, International Mission of Hope in Kolkata.

Thomas, who reached Kolkata on Saturday with her friends Rebecca Peacock (49) and 47-year-old Manu Erickson (who have similar lost-and-adopted stories), spent Sunday touring the suburbs around Khardah PS from 10am to 3pm.

Now the minister wants to exempt a new group from work obligations.

Another group is set to be affected by the government's new law on work obligations in connection with cash benefits, which was otherwise intended to primarily affect non-Western immigrants.

The Ministry of Employment confirms to DR that surrogate children born abroad - just like adopted children - are covered by the new rules that come into effect on July 1 this year.

This means that if a Danish couple, for example, chooses to have a child through a surrogacy agreement from a country like the USA, the child will not have the same rights as its parents.

The Federal Council wants to ban adoptions from abroad. Now, opposition is mounting. However, opponents and supporters agree on one point.

Shortly :

• In January, the Federal Council announced a ban on adoptions from abroad.
• Now, resistance is brewing. EPP National Councilor Nik Gugger, himself adopted from India, has launched a petition against the ban. The FDP plans to submit a motion on April 11.
• Supporters of the ban take the view that even stricter controls could not prevent illegal adoptions.

Nik Gugger still remembers it clearly: As a six-year-old, he was walking through the village with his parents when suddenly someone called out: "Ah, look, there's Gugger's souvenir."

This experience doesn't stop there. "There were racist remarks from time to time, which made me feel powerless," says the EPP National Councilor, who was born in India in 1970, adopted by a Swiss couple, and grew up near Thun.