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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.  Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up. 

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The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, advocacy and operations. In doing so, UNICEF establishes, promotes and nurtures partnerships with broad spectrum of national and international partners, most notably Government and its institutions.

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Oana Sârbu, one of the most beloved artists of the '80s-'90s generation, is living a different story today: that of a devoted, discreet mother deeply anchored in the life of her adopted son, Alexandru. The boy is 16 years old today and is the result of a choice made with her heart more than a decade ago – a choice that changed her life forever. And the story behind this adoption reveals a sensitive and deeply emotional side of the artist.
 

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1 Alexandru, the boy who changed Oana Sârbu's life 

2 A family story that began with two: Oana Sârbu and Robert Turcescu 

2.1 Robert Turcescu, another life, another marriage 

Completion of legislation for implementing reform of public adoption system centered on national and local governments
- Enforcement Decree and Enforcement Rules of the International Adoption Act and the Domestic Adoption Special Act are enacted and revised, and are scheduled to take effect on July 19 -

  The Ministry of Health and Welfare (Minister Cho Kyu-hong) announced that following the promulgation of the Enforcement Decree of the Special Adoption Act (renamed the Enforcement Decree of the Special Act on Domestic Adoption), the Partial Revision Decree of the Enforcement Decree of the Child Welfare Act, and the Enforcement Decree (enactment) of the Act on International Adoption ('25.5.7.), it has enacted and revised the related enforcement regulations* ('25.5.14. promulgated), which will go into effect on July 19. 

   * Enforcement Decree of the Special Adoption Act (renamed as the Enforcement Decree of the Special Act on Domestic Adoption), Enforcement Decree of the Act on International Adoption

  This is a follow-up measure to the revision of subordinate statutes in accordance with the revision of the law in July 2023 to strengthen national responsibility for domestic and international adoption of children in order to implement the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption*. 

Students who hide their pregnancy under thick sweaters and give birth alone, it still happens in the Netherlands. Stichting Beschermde Wieg, which helps women in all phases of an unwanted pregnancy, has seen the group of students grow in recent years. ‘Above all, these women want to prevent parental interference.’

It sounds like a story from another time. Yet last year a student gave birth alone in her student house. She immediately went out onto the street to give the baby up for adoption, wrapped in a blanket.

Kitty Nusteling, operational director at the Beschermde Wieg foundation, has seen these types of students more and more in recent years. ‘Sometimes they take another exam the following week.’ Every year, around 1,500 women contact the Beschermde Wieg foundation for help in all phases of pregnancy. This can involve a listening ear, advice, shelter or medical support, or giving babies up for adoption. This year, the foundation has already facilitated seven births of women who wanted to give their child up for adoption, three of whom were still studying. Two of those births were in Amsterdam.

Whether this also means that the number of students in the Netherlands who hide a pregnancy is increasing is difficult to say. However, Nusteling does see more women who only use natural contraception, methods to prevent pregnancy without hormonal agents, which are less reliable. Nusteling. 'In addition, there is always a number X, the women who do not report to us. Research shows that women who want their child never to be found succeed in their plan.'

Forced adoptions in Switzerland have so far received little research. According to historian Rahel Bühler of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts (ZHAW), the procedures were mostly legally correct, but unmarried mothers were under enormous social and official pressure.

Young women were "put under severe psychological pressure and forced to consent to an abortion, sterilization, or adoption of one or more of their children." The Federal Office of Justice records this under the heading "Victims of Coercive Welfare Measures and Out-of-Home Care." 

Unlike, for example, indentured children, forced adoptions have received little public attention. From a scientific perspective, the events have also been little studied. "There are many unanswered questions," says Rahel Bühler (44) of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). The historian has co-authored recent studies on adoptions in forced situations in Switzerland since the 1960s.

DAVANAGERE: A special-needs child from Amulya Orphanage in Davanagere will soon join his adoptive family in Italy, marking the tenth international adoption from the facility.

The child's adoptive parents were chosen through Central Adoption Resource Authority's (CARA) selection process after his teenage biological mother expressed her inability to raise him.

Tarun, 3, with walking disabilities, will be transferred to his adoptive parents through DC G M Gangadharswamy on May 13.

T N Kavitha, the district child protection officer, said: "Govt-specialised adoption agency Amulya Kendra, Davangere, rceives legally free adoption (LFA) recommendations from the district child welfare committee in keeping with rules for orphaned, abandoned, and surrendered children."

The officer further said: "A 19-year-old unwed mother had surrendered Tarun about three years ago. When the Italian couple showed interest in adopting him, we completed the formalities." The couple had satisfied all adoption criteria.

While law prohibits direct adoptions, the process is based on an assessment of prospective parents' health, psychological well-being, social standing, and financial capability.

Post-adoption monitoring continues for two years with quarterly welfare updates.

Cathy Terkanian was happily married and living in Massachusetts but would often think about the smiley, blue-eyed baby girl she had given up for adoption when she was a teenager - hoping she was having a good life.

Then, after years of wondering, she made the shocking discovery that her daughter, Alexis Miranda Badger, had in fact been murdered by her adopted father, Dennis Bowman, who dismembered her body and buried her in a shallow grave in the backyard of his Michigan home.

Now Terkanian, who is featured in Netflix's Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter, tells the Daily Mail the true horror of discovering that her daughter, re-named Aundria Bowman, had been placed with a serial killer.

'There were a few people my daughter grew up with who told me quite a few graphic details... terrible things,' she said. 

'I think he (Dennis) was molesting my little daughter at a very young age,' she added. 

Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten are raising adopted Black children – something he recently discussed on the "Flagrant" podcast. And they're hardly alone.

Scroll through TikTok and you'll find wholesome, heartwarming stories about White parents with Black children posting videos perfecting their children's hair. Many comments are encouraging: "omg her hair is beautiful and so is a mothers love." "A mother who TRIES is all our kids need." "You’re doing a great job caring for them."

Buttigieg alluded to plenty of advice he received on his children's hair from Black parents on social media. "They're like, 'let me tell you how to do it,'" he said.

Today, there are plenty of resources for parents who adopt children of a different race, a process known as transracial adoption. But that wasn't always the case.

For transracial adoptees who grew up in White families decades ago, these TikTok videos and the attention this subject is now getting bring mixed emotions. It's encouraging to see how far things have come in terms of adoptive parents working to better understand their children's needs. But these viral positive posts aren't reflective of what they experienced.

In a landmark judgment, the Chhattisgarh High Court has held that women employees who adopt children are also entitled to childcare/child adoption/maternity leave since it is a fundamental right of every mother under Article 21 of the Constitution, irrespective of the mode of attainment of motherhood, to give motherly care and attention to their new-born children.Justice Bibhu Datta Guru...