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Bulgaria Parliament eases adoptees' access to adoption records

SOFIA, Bulgaria – The Parliament adopted revisions to the Family Code that ease adoptees' access to their adoption records.

The revisions scrap the requirement for "significant circumstances" that can start the procedure for granting adoptees access to the information about their biological parents and broadens the scope of people who can request disclosure of this information.

The information can now be requested by the adoptee, the adoptive parents, the heirs and spouse of the adoptee.

Adoptees who are 18 and older, their heirs and spouse can ask the regional court that has allowed the adoption, to grant them access to the information about their origin.

The regional court will make a decision at a hearing behind closed door after notifying the biological parents of the adoptee's request and after hearing the position of a prosecutor.

Stepchild adoption possible despite surrogacy

Surrogacy is prohibited in Germany. Nevertheless, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main allowed a German couple to adopt a stepchild born abroad to a surrogate mother.

 

The Higher Regional Court (OLG) of Frankfurt am Main has ruled that the stepchild adoption of a child born abroad to a surrogate mother is possible despite the ban on surrogacy in Germany (decision of December 14, 2023, case number 2 UF 33/23). With this ruling, a German couple can proceed with the corresponding stepchild adoption.

The background to the case was the German couple's previously unfulfilled desire to have children. They had contacted a Ukrainian fertility clinic to arrange a surrogacy. With the help of an egg donation, a pregnancy was subsequently induced in a Ukrainian woman.

At the beginning of 2020, the husband had already acknowledged paternity of the child born to the surrogate mother in Ukraine. In the summer of 2020, the German couple took in the child, and now the wife wanted to adopt the child to legally secure her position.

Catholic Church put up 30,000 children for adoption without mothers' consent

The Catholic Church sold around 30,000 children to adoptive parents without their mother's consent or knowledge, new testimonies reported by Het Laatste Nieuws reveal.

Created just after World War Two, institutions run by nuns took in underage girls and pregnant unmarried women until the late 1980s. These women were subjected to unpaid labour, humiliating conditions, and in some cases, sexual abuse.

During childbirth, some women were given general anaesthetic while others had to wear a mask – all ways to prevent mothers from seeing their child, who were immediately separated after birth. Some women were even sterilised. Others were forced to sign a document renouncing their child or were told the child was stillborn.

The children were then sold for large sums – between 10,000 and 30,000 Belgian francs (roughly between €250 and €750), sometimes much more – to adoptive families.

Unkept or destroyed files are now making reunion processes extremely difficult, says Debby Mattys (57), who was put up for adoption by the nuns and spent over 20 years looking for her birth mother. "My mother was 18 years old when she had an unwanted pregnancy," she told Het Laaste Nieuws.

Adopted girl goes missing, Karnataka artist couple ends life

UDUPI: A few hours after their 17-year-old adopted daughter went missing from home in Majoor village of Udupi district’s Kaup taluk, acclaimed theatre artist Leeladhar Shetty (68) and his wife Vasundhara L Shetty (59) hanged themselves with a nylon saree in their bedroom on Tuesday night.
Police sources said the girl was adopted by the couple about 16 years ago. Cops have registered a case of kidnapping and are conducting an investigation to trace the missing teen, on a complaint lodged by a relative of the Shettys.
 

 

Leeladhar once contested from Kaup assembly constituency and had served as head of Majoor gram panchayat. His well-regarded drama troupe reflected his popularity.

Gerard Depardieu stripped of Order of Quebec after vulgar comments caught on camera

Gerard Depardieu stripped of Order of Quebec after vulgar comments caught on camera

French actor Gerard Depardieu speaks on the final day of the Montreal World Film Festival in Montreal, Monday, Sept.6, 2010.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

French actor Gerard Depardieu speaks on the final day of the Montreal World Film Festival in Montreal, Monday, Sept.6, 2010.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

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Historic forced adoption - scoping study: final report

Research to scope the support needs of people affected by historic forced adoption in Scotland.

 

Acknowledgements

The research team would like to acknowledge and thank the people affected by historic forced adoption who shared their experiences with us. Without your involvement, this research would not have been possible. Thanks also to the campaigners, support organisations, local authority representatives, and academics who took part in interviews, completed and publicised our online survey, and supported the recruitment of interviewees.

 

Historic forced adoption - scoping study: final report

Research to scope the support needs of people affected by historic forced adoption in Scotland.

 

Acknowledgements

The research team would like to acknowledge and thank the people affected by historic forced adoption who shared their experiences with us. Without your involvement, this research would not have been possible. Thanks also to the campaigners, support organisations, local authority representatives, and academics who took part in interviews, completed and publicised our online survey, and supported the recruitment of interviewees.

 

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2,000 children adopted by Indians, 224 by foreigners so far this year: Govt

Women and Child Development Ministry had notified Adoption Regulations, 2022, which have been framed in line with the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (as amended in 2021)

 


More than 2,000 children have been adopted by Indians in the financial year 2023-24 so far while 224 children have been adopted by foreigners, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani informed the Parliament on Wednesday.

In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Irani said the Women and Child Development Ministry had notified Adoption Regulations, 2022, which have been framed in line with the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (as amended in 2021), on September 23 last year.

The Adoption Regulations were framed keeping in mind the issues and challenges faced by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) and other stakeholders, including the Adoption Agencies and Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs), she said.