CHENNAI: As a ray of hope to prospective adoptive parents with disabilities, S Velmayil (34) and P Baby (36), a couple with disabilities from Srivaikuntam in Thoothukudi district, adopted a four-month-old baby on Tuesday. The child was assigned to couple after a wait of four years but the adoption committee had recently rejected them, citing disabilities as a reason. TNIE had reported this. The baby was finally brought home after the couple underwent a physical examination and were declared fit.

P Baby, the mother, was at a loss for words to express her happiness. She said the adoption committee has asked them to take care of the baby with the help of Velmayil’s parents and handed over the child by 5 pm.

Both Velmayil and Baby have locomotor disability of 90% and 80% respectively; while it has affected the lower limbs of the former, the latter can’t move her right hand and right leg.

The couple, who got married in 2016, live with Velmayil’s parents. Baby is a noon meal organiser and Velmayil works at a fuel station. They registered to adopt a child in 2020, following which social workers inspected their house twice and cleared all formalities. In June, the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) informed the couple that a specialised adoption agency in Dindigul has assigned them a baby born in March.

However, a five-member adoption committee said the couple would not be able to care for the child, particularly in the first two years of age, due to their physical disabilities. Taking a decades-old disability certificate as basis and without examining them further, an ortho surgeon from Government Thoothukudi Medical College Hospital said the couple was unfit to adopt the child. But the final recommendation from the medical board chairman stated that they could handle the baby.

The Romanian authorities express their understanding of the pain of the Romanian family from Leeds whose children were taken into foster care by the British state, but consider that the reasons behind this decision are "legal and justified", reports RareșPetru Achiriloaie, the president of the National Authority for the Protection of Child Rights and Adoption (ANPDCA), through a post made on the institution's page.

Yhe President of the Child Protection in Romania says that what happened in Leeds represents a "sad event with a big impact both in the Romanian community in the territory and in British society". "Emotions took the place of reason and, carried by good intentions, people let things degenerate into a situation that turned into a riot We understand the family's pain and desire to keep their children close. Many things could have gone better, on both sides, but the important thing is to find solutions to resolve the conflict peacefully, with understanding and calmness. We understand the parents' point of view, we understood that they felt powerless, wronged and that they reacted out of fear", says Rareș-Petru Achiriloaie, president of ANPDCA.

Child Protection in Romania considers the reasons of the British colleagues legal and justified 

On the other hand, the ANPDCA president says that the Romanian authorities understand the reasons why the British authorities took the decision to act in the Leeds case.

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Born and sold: The dark truth behind Nepal’s child adoption

Raised in the Netherlands, Shanti Chalise was always curious about her skin colour, which differed from her family. Her parents and brother had white skin, but she had brown. Sometimes, she felt bad about it.

But after some years, another child with a similar skin colour as Chalise joined the family. Only then did she learn about Nepal.

“He was two years older than me. He used to tell me repeatedly – Shanti, we came from Nepal,” Chalise recalls. “He frequently wished to see his photos taken in Nepal.”

Chinese boy adopted by Dutch couple finds biological parents after 12-year-long search In 1994, Gouming got lost when his parents were travelling from their home in China's Jiangsu province to his mother's hometown in Sichuan province. DH Web Desk La...

A PhD graduate in linguistics, Gouming Martens of the Chinese descent has found his birth parents after a 12-year-long quest. ADVERTISEMENT According to a report by South China Morning Post, Gouming was adopted by a couple from Netherlands when he was four-years-old after he got lost while travelling with this biological parents. In 1994, Gouming got lost when his parents were travelling from their home in China's Jiangsu province to his mother's hometown in Sichuan province. He was sent to to an orphanage and was adopted in 1996 by a Dutch couple - Jozef and Maria Martens. According to SCMP, the orphanage had named him Gou Yongming and after adoption, the Martens called him Gouming so that he could remember where he came from as they ...

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Not knowing where your child is. For Yoo-hee (69), this has been the nightmare she has been living in for almost forty years. In 1987, she gave birth to a cloud of a baby in South Korea, but before she could hold it once, her son was taken away. “Against my will,” the mother testifies. An adoption service brought him to Belgium and since then there has been no trace. The Korean woman tells her story for the first time. Desperate, she begs: “I want to be able to hug my son just once before I die.”

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Paralakhemundi : An incredible inspiration for those childless parents who deserve foster care by adopting those vulnerable children of Gajapati.This indeed a landmark perhaps care & protection of those children a great grip for their rising.Again by DCPU(District Child Protection Unit)handed over their 55th adoption care.Jharkhand couple showed interest for adoption.
That girl child who had no claim of parents had been restored & rehabilitated at Utkal Balashram for all care & management.Later under central child adoption portal that girl details uploaded to acknowledge those childless parents.So by seeing such information Jharkhand couple applied for adoption. That girl’s age is 14.After proper verification of that couple district administration conveyed their signal for adoption. The couple looked happy while received that child.
On this occasion Collector Smrutiranjan Pradhan,ADM(Revenue) Birendra Kumar Das, DCPO Arun Kumar Tripathi,Dr.Milan Kumar Adhikari,Nisaan Salem institution care taker Pratyush Kumar Surya, Chairman of CWC Aswini Kumar Mahapatra & members of DCPU were present.

Police have busted a child trafficking racket, and rescued six babies (aged between 11 months to 2.5 years) in Karnataka's Tumakuru district. Four people, including an owner of a private hospital and three nurses who allegedly sold babies to childless couples have been arrested.

The accused have been identified as Mahesh, a nurse at a government hospital in Kunigal, and Mehboob Shariff (owner of a private hospital). Two female nurses, Sowjanya and Poornima, who were the delivery nurses involved in the case.

Mahesh and Mehboob Shariff used to secure babies from parents who didn't want the child and sold the baby to other couples for Rs 2–3 lakh by illegal adoption procedure.

These babies were mostly born out of extra marital affairs or pre-marital affairs and hence, their biological parents didn't want to keep the babies.

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WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - Reality TV star Paris Hilton called for greater federal oversight of youth care programs at a U.S. House of Representatives committee hearing on Wednesday as she described her traumatic experience in youth care facilities.

Hilton, 43, the great-granddaughter of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton, has spoken publicly about the emotional and physical abuse she endured when she was placed in residential youth treatment facilities as a teen.

In remarks to the committee on Wednesday, she described being taken from her bed in the middle of the night at age 16 and transported across state lines to a residential facility where she experienced physical and sexual abuse.

"This $23 billion industry sees this population (of vulnerable children) as dollar signs and operates without meaningful oversight," she said.

"There's no education in these places, there's mold and blood on the walls," she added in response to lawmaker questions. "It's horrifying what these places are like. They're worse than some dog kennels."