UN rules on adoption Profit with foster children should be punishable

P" one of our reporters

|EN HAGUE - Illegal placement of adopted children and profit

j*°et be criminalized. It's in the 'Declaration on the Welfare of Adoptive and Foster Children' adopted yesterday '0 the General Assembly of the United Nations.

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E. den Hartog for adoption association of the geref. denomination

GOUDA - The Adoption Association of the Reformed Congregation holds the autumn meeting on Saturday 22 November in the auditorium of De Driestar in Gouda. The meeting is also open to non-members and interested parties.

The afternoon program starts at half past two with the opening address of President Rev. A. Bac from Bodegraven. This afternoon's speaker is the well-known (former) major of the Salvation Army Eva den Hartog. She has worked in many disaster areas around the world and has been involved in a children's home and adoption in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. She will show slides and tell about her work, after which discussion with her is possible.

Dutch:

GOUDA — De Adoptie-vereniging der gereformeerde gezindte houdt op zaterdag 22 november de najaarsvergadering in de aula van De Driestar te Gouda. De bijeenkomst is ook voor niet-leden en belangstellenden toegankelijk.

NRC Handelsblad

18-12-1985

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Adoption of children from the third world, 1 - Het Spoor - VPRO

In fifteen years, the Netherlands adopted fifteen thousand third-world children: development work in their own country. For years, adoption has been enveloped by a pink cloud. Then came the scandals: long waiting times, high costs, illegality, child trafficking, out-of-home placements. Series of two documentaries on foreign adoption, which were positively approached for years. Until the problems came: frustrations of eternally waiting adoptive parents and financial scandals. And then the practices of very lucrative child trafficking in third world countries and the involvement of Western rogue adoptive associations. In this part we focus on successful adoptions. Interviews with, among others: - journalist and mother Helma van der Berg; - Mr Walenkamp from Wereldkinderen; - mother Geertje; - clinical psychologist Dr. Wolters; - Jan and Sylvia Jongepier; - Prof. dr. Dr. Hoksbergen; - parent and journalist Alexander Munninghof, who adopted a child in Sri Lanka four years ago and of which Ronald van den Boogaard made recordings in Sri Lanka at the time. Now, four years later, Lida, Michel and Ronald are visiting Alexander again.

Dutch:

In vijftien jaar tijds adopteerde Nederland vijftienduizend derde-wereld-kinderen: ontwikkelingswerk in eigen land. Jarenlang is adoptie gehuld geweest door een roze wolk. Daarna kwamen de schandalen: lange wachttijden, hoge kosten, illegaliteit, kinderhandel, uithuisplaatsingen.
Serie van twee documentaires over buitenlandse adoptie, die jarenlang positief werd benaderd. Tot de problemen aan het kwamen: frustraties van eeuwig wachtende adoptief ouders en financiële schandalen. En dan de praktijken van zeer lucratieve kinderhandel in derde wereldlanden en de betrokkenheid van westerse malafide adoptieverenigingen.
In dit deel vooral aandacht voor goed verlopen adopties.
Interviews met o.a.:
- journaliste en moeder Helma van der Berg;
- De heer Walenkamp van Wereldkinderen;
- moeder Geertje;
- klinisch psycholoog dr. Wolters;
- Jan en Sylvia Jongepier;
- Prof. Hoksbergen;
- ouder en journalist Alexander Munninghof, die vier jaar geleden in Sri Lanka een kindje adopteerde en waarvan Ronald van den Boogaard indertijd in Sri Lanka opnamen maakte. Nu, vier jaar later, gaan Lida, Michel en Ronald weer op bezoek bij Alexander.

Samenstelling: Lida Iburg en Michal Citroen

The Hague incest (grand) child died

In February 1985 Panorama brings the disconcerting story of the then 35-year-old Corrie S. from The Hague: "I had four children from my own father". From her early childhood she was abused by her father, nine times she became pregnant, and four children survived. Corrie told her story after she caught her father with one of those four children, the then 14-year-old Zarah. Almost thirty years later, this Zarah wants to tell how things went on at the time. How the assisting The Hague abandoned her and after the article she was abused for five years by her father.

“I remember that you came to us, I was then 14. You wanted to make an article about fathers who have to raise their children on their own. And then you all started asking questions about my mother. He was a lizard! "

Zarah S. remembers the visit of the Panorama reporter at the end of 1984 as yesterday. The report about her mother and the incest children struck the emergency services in The Hague like a bomb, but in 2009 it is staggering to find that it didn't help much: father S. just kept going. The judges and child protectors did not reach out and Zarah was abused until her father's death (in 1996).

When the article appeared in February 1985, the originally S. family from The Hague lived in The Hague again. Corrie S. (35) had fled from home and lived on the Bierkade, father S. lived with the children Renata (18), Zarah (14) and Eduard (11) in Westlandsestraat. The previous residence of the family was Leeuwarden: father S. was reluctant to relocate if social workers were too concerned with him. That had been the case in Friesland.

Amigoe

16-02-1985

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Leeuwarder courant : hoofdblad van Friesland

14-02-1985

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drie geadopteerde Haïtiaanse meisjes

* Immacula Bongard (Moumoune), geboren in Haïti in 1977 en in 1985 geadopteerd

* Immacula haar Haïtiaanse broer heet Ason

* Marie Narcisse Lauture (Miyou), geboren in Haïti in 1980 en in 1984 geadopteerd

* Jesumene Gere, geboren in 1982 in Haïti en in 1987 geadopteerd

Madras High Court

P.K. Subramani vs Paster Mani And Anr. on 4 April, 1984

Equivalent citations: AIR 1986 Mad 181

Author: S Natarajan

Bench: Natarajan, Venkataswami