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Patna: District magistrate (DM) Chandrashekhar Singh on Thursday issued adoption order of three children under the recent guidelines issued by the Central government. The children of different ages were adopted by three different couples of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, respectively.

Two children from Arunoday Vishisht Duttak Grahan Sansthan and another from Srijini Vishisht Duttak Grahn Sansthan were adopted at an event, which was attended by deputy development commissioner of Patna, Tanay Sultania, assistant director child protection (ADCP) Uday Kumar Jha and others.

Jha said earlier adoption of children was a long process through family court, but later it was simplified and the district magistrate concerned was authorised to issue adoption order. He said, “The couples, who had at least two years of stable married life and whose mental condition are fine, are eligible to adopt children after getting registered on the portal of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).”

Meanwhile, the DM inspected the district minority welfare office and directed the officials to make people aware about various welfare schemes launched by the government so that maximum number could avail their benefits. Various schemes sponsored by both central and state government were available for welfare of the minority in the district.

The DM further ordered effective implementation of the Bihar state madrasa strengthening scheme. He also interacted with the employees, checked their attendance, ordered closure of the unnecessary bank accounts and return the unspent amount of past government schemes.

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The court terms the “young woman in distress” to be a unique case. The petition was originally filed seeking medical termination of pregnancy by a 20 year-old student.

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ON Tuesday, a Supreme Court bench comprising the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala, issued a clarification in its direction from earlier this month to seek prospective adoptive parents with utmost priority and urgency before the delivery of a child by an unmarried 20 year-old student.

The petition was originally filed seeking medical termination of pregnancy. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), however, submitted a report that in light of the petitioner being in the last stage of her pregnancy, the termination of pregnancy could cause harm to the mother and the child. Accordingly, the bench, by an order dated February 2, directed AIIMS to fix a suitable date for the delivery of the child and to ensure all necessary facilities are made available without charges.

Further, the petitioner suggested giving the child for adoption since neither she nor her family was in a condition to care for the child. In light of the situation, the bench granted permission for the adoption of the child by prospective parents registered with the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA). Subsequently, on Tuesday, the bench directed CARA to implement the order and take necessary steps within 24 hours.

The Grand Criminal Court in Amman issued a life sentence with hard labor against a Jordanian man and his American wife for murder with severe torture.

The sentence was issued based on Articles 327/3 and 64 of the Jordanian Penal Code, after the couple was convicted for torturing their eight-year-old adopted child to death.

The child was put in a bathtub filled with extremely hot water and left there for hours.

The court proved that the convicted husband and wife wanted to "get rid of the four children and kill them," by beating and torture.

They reportedly hit them with wooden sticks and poured hot water on their bodies almost every day.

Cate Riley, daughter of Swiss parents, was adopted by an Australian family in the 1970s. Now she wants to be legally recognized as Swiss. But this is not that easy.

Melanie Eichenberger and Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch

Wrapped up, two teenagers stand with their father in the Basel train station hall. Her mother is coming down the escalator. She waves. It is Cate Riley (52) who walks through the hall beaming despite the freezing temperatures.

It must be a bit of a temperature shock for the family, coming straight from the Australian summer. She has traveled 17,000 kilometers by plane. “We had to buy new jackets and shoes; we never need anything like that at home ,” says Riley.
 

Tiphaine Scholz was born in South Korea and adopted by a couple from Europe. Years later, this turns out to be completely unsuitable. Scholz goes looking for her biological parents. But on a trip to her native country, she learns things she would have preferred never to have known.

An a day in August, Tiphaine Scholz stands in her kitchen and imagines what she would say to her birth mother if they were to face each other one day. It's a simple, conciliatory sentence: "I'm not mad at you." Tiphaine is preparing Korean ribs, a dish that reminds her of the country of her birth. She is sure that her birth mother is blaming herself hugely.

A few months later, in December, everything is different. Tiphaine sits on the sofa. She has made a trip to South Korea, a journey into her past. She experienced things there that overwhelmed her like a wave that first buries what has been washed up and then pulls it back into the ocean. “I now wonder whether women in South Korea have no heart,” says Tiphaine. If she were to meet her birth mother now, she would only have one question for her: “Why?”

Openly gay Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana bucks coalition position, votes for legislation sponsored by MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzano, who slams government as most LGBTQ-phobic ever

The Knesset rejected on Wednesday an opposition lawmaker’s bill that sought to officially enable same-sex couples and single people to adopt children.

The bill, proposed by Yesh Atid MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzano, was defeated in a preliminary reading by 45 votes against, and 37 in favor.

Current law, dating back to 1981, states that only a “man and his wife” are permitted to adopt children in Israel. However, the courts have the power to enable singles (including a single person in a same-sex relationship) to adopt in exceptional situations. According to the Aguda-The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel, adoption agencies give priority to heterosexual couples so that even those singles who are able to apply are pushed down the list to receive a child to the point where their chances of success dwindle to almost nothing. In addition, the partner of a single person who adopts a child is not recognized as also being a parent.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, an openly gay lawmaker for the coalition Likud party, broke ranks from the government’s stance of opposing the bill and voted in favor.

PATNA: An Italian couple on Tuesday, adopted a 7-year-old girl Kristina from Vishisht Dattak Grahan Sansthan, an orphanage, being operated under the aegis of the District Child Protection Unit.

Kristina, who was found wandering at the Patna railway station by a police officer in 2019, was handed over to the couple Christina Margotta and Luna Celestini by assistant director, District Child Protection Unit, Uday Kumar Jha, after getting an order from the Family Court, Patna on Tuesday.

The couple completed all the procedures according to the provisions of the Adoption Guide 2022, issued by the Union ministry of women and child development, Government of India.They applied for the adoption of a child about 3 years ago. Kristina was registered on the adoption site in 2019 after newspaper advertisements failed to locate her biological parents.

Any couple with sound physical and mental health is qualified to adopt a child, if they have been happily married for at least two years and have given their mutual consent for adoption.

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If survivors of forced adoption fighting for a parliamentary inquiry in Western Australia get their way, they believe it will be partly thanks to an Albany woman's traumatic story.

Danae only found out last year, at the age of 50, that she was adopted when, she said, a relative dropped the bombshell by text.

"I cried for I don't know how long … days and weeks," she said.

"It was like this big hole in the ground opened up and swallowed me in.

"It was overwhelming."