Brandpunt Reporter - 21 okt 2007 21:50 - Seizoen 3 Afl. 14 - Adoptie.

Ooit leek het puur idealisme. Inmiddels is adoptie een wereldwijde kopersmarkt geworden. Een markt waar de jongste, de gezondste en de blankste kinderen gaan naar de meest betalende vrager. Een overspannen markt bovendien. Volgens Unicef zijn er voor ieder kind 25 ouderparen beschikbaar. Over ouders die in hun wanhopige zoektocht de grenzen van de regelgeving aftasten, prijzen opdrijven en omstreden organisaties aan het werk zetten.

Dertig jaar geleden was adoptie vooral idealisme. Geef een kind een kans. Nu is adoptie vooral de laatste optie. In de westerse wereld wachten wij steeds langer met het nemen van kinderen. En als we dan nog willen, dan lukt het steeds vaker niet meer. Het aantal ongewenst kinderlozen groeit. Voor hen is adoptie steeds vaker het laatste redmiddel.

In de uitzending komen onder andere Nederlandse adoptieorganisatie aan het woord. Zij erkennen het bestaan van de markt, maar doen naar eigen zeggen niet mee aan de prijzenslag. Zij betalen wat ze hebben afgesproken. Geen cent te veel en zeker niet onder de tafel. Nederland als netste jongetje van de klas. Waar landen als Amerika en Frankrijk de kindertehuizen in de 3e wereld feteren met luxueuze banketten en dikke dollarcheques, geven wij een lullig zilveren schaaltje. Met inscriptie. Hoe netjes zijn onze adoptieorganisaties? In hoeverre is de marktwerking ook hier doorgedrongen? Wat moet je betalen voor adoptie? En krijg je korting op kinderen met een afwijking?

Volgens de Nederlandse adoptieorganisatie wereldkinderen verandert het aanbod van kinderen. Omdat we op de internationale markt minder betalen, krijgen we steeds vaker alleen de minder gewilde kinderen aangeboden. Kinderen met een hazelip, of een klompvoet of een ontwikkelingsachterstand bijvoorbeeld. En lang niet iedereen wil zo'n kind. De meesten willen een gezonde baby. Die zijn er steeds minder en dus wachten veel ouders vooral. Jaren soms.

Roelie Post

18/10/2007

to Simon.MORDUE

Summary:

EU Vice President Frattini had an audition with the Italian Parliamentary Commission for Child Protection, where he presented on 15 March initiatives on the rights of the child, in particular concerning adoption. In fact, Frattini announced the presentation, during 2007, of a comparative study on laws in EU Member States with a view to harmonise the different legislations on adoptions. A precise analysis will be the basis for reflexion on the introduction of European adoption: being a new level to be placed between national and international adoption, this new issue may offer to abandoned children in the European region a chance to find a family.

See: After 30 minutes or so of extracting our personal histories, she announced that our problems with Peter, and mine in particular, were a direct result of my not having sufficiently grieved over my miscarriages and infertility, as well as the loss of Ben, the baby we turned down in Russia.

October 15, 2007 and Chapter 22

Filed under: Dr. Federici,FAS,Jane Aronson,Post-Institutional,Russian Adoption,Special Needs Adoption,attachment,fetal alcohol syndrome,international adoption,learning disabled,orphan — whenrainhurts @ 5:15 pm

Tags: adoption, international adoption, autism, Dr. Jane Aronson, Dr. Ronald Federici, fetal alcohol, post-institutional autism, suzanne d'aversa, Hansen, "Russian boy"

Apple Picking (October 2007)

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Vineri, 12 Octombrie 2007 01:34

October 10, 2007

Mary Bonn Sentenced

After eight months since her arrest and the various firestorms that have followed it, the Mary Bonn saga comes to an end. In a long sentencing hearing that went on for hours, she was sentenced to 366 days in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, and fines and restitution of $10,000. The court was filled with Mary's supporters, families who had happlily adopted through her. And the adoptive father in the case she was charged for appeared before the judge as well. We'll get more info on what happened, the judges comments, etc. soon.

Click on more for updates Oct 10

While this may be the end of the saga for Mary, she will have a legacy full of disparate thoughts. She helped create hundreds of families successfully. There are many who sing her praises based on their experience working with her. There are also many who have broken hearts from their experience, some still struggling today to get out of the mess of adoptions started throgh Mary. There are those, like the family in this case, whose description to their kids of how they came to join their family is not as simple as the one I'll tell mine.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS CHILD ADOPTION ISSUES ________________________________________ 18:6 IST India is hosting three days International Conference from 8th to 10th October, 2007 to discuss child adoption issues in New Delhi. Briefing the media about the agenda of the conference, Smt. Renuka Chowdhury, Minister for Women and Child Development said that the conference would provide a plateform to get feed back from the receiving countries about the adoption of Indian children. It would also apprise them of our concern regarding inter country adoption. She said that the Government wants to make the adoption procedure more transparent, hassle free with all safeguards. With this objective, it would soon come out with new guidelines on adoption. Speedy Redressal of grievances and centralize monitoring of the adoption procedure will be focus of the new guidelines, she added. Underlining the importance of family based care for the children in need of care and protection, she said that adoption is not one time event but a life long celebration which not only provide a family to a children but also a new meaning in the life of a family. The international conference being organized by Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Women and Child Development will discuss the draft UN guidelines on children without parental care and safeguards for children placed for inter country adoption. The issue of trans-cultural adoption and identity issues for children for international adoptions will also be taken up during the conference. Preparing the special needs children for inter-country adoption and their rehabilitation is one of the important subjects besides review of guidelines for inter-country adoption. The conference will be attended by more than 300 delegates including 150 delegates from across the world including Govt. representatives, national adoption agencies, social scientists and child-care experts. NCJ/DT

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It is expected that the document, albeit a non-binding document, will prove to be a useful and strong tool in the process, and it is hoped that it will be widely disseminated amongst practitioners involved in all aspects of child protection. As a final conclusion, and opening to further informal discussion, I invite you to read the latest version of the draft UN Guidelines, which are available on the Child Rights Information Network and Better Care Network’s websites (http://www.crin.org/bcn).

I´d offered to make a presentation…..Mr. Pati, Dy Director told me that he thinks I m not “balanced”. There is no speaker from the activist. No real critical person.

The Supreme Court has clarified the rules of international adoption of Kazakh children

05.10.2007

Last week, a judge in Astana the Supervisory Board of the Supreme Court gave Galia AKKUOVA official comments on international adoptions Kazakh orphans.

In RK permit foreign citizens to adopt a child gives the court. According to Ms. Akkuovoy, currently the country's 16,884 children living in orphanages, even in 2084 to three years of living in orphanages. 80% of them - the so-called "social orphans", that is, children with living parents. There are 6 children's villages of family type, 29 family houses, 23 houses and 3 youth non-"children's village". These institutions brought up only 16.6% of children. The judge said that "in such a situation, the optimal shape of the device is the adoption of children": "Since the adoption develop not only close, relationship, but there is their legal recognition."

In 1999, the existing Law "On Marriage and the Family," which allowed for the first time in Kazakhstan, international adoption, and put on the courts the duty to take decisions to permit it. According to the Sun, for 8 years, more than 20,000 children are adopted citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, about 6000 - foreigners.