Panaji: A couple from Goa who recently adopted a child told TOI that although the wait was three and a half years long, the patience was worth it.
 

Five children in Goa are waiting to be adopted.
 

As for the couple who waited for three-plus years, a child was made available to them for adoption after they registered online on the CARINGS portal of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA). “We did a lot of research and spoke to friends who had adopted earlier, so we were aware of the long waiting period,” the couple said. “Although we were mentally prepared, we got impatient after three years. Every day was very trying.”
 

The couple added that they had no issues as far as the process is concerned, as it’s a neat procedure. “The waiting period is the only concern, and we hope that it decreases in the future,” they said. However, the couple said they received a lot of negative reactions when they decided to adopt, spurred by the stigma that some attach to adoption.

“Many couples choose to remain childless, fearing what society will say. They have reservations about the background of the child and the genes, which is very strange,” the couple said.

Parents who register on the CARINGS portal can choose up to three states from which to adopt a child. It is a rarity for parents from Goa to get a child from the state — given its size, it has fewer children on the adoption list.
 

The technical report above provides an overview of how the research for the The Lived Experince of Intercountry Adopted Adults in Ireland Report was conducted.

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Micromanagement is the fastest way to lose good people.

If you don’t trust your team, why hire them at all?

Is your boss always watching?
Do they need updates every hour?
Are they more focused on control than results?

If yes, you might be dealing with a micromanager.

The bad news? 
It kills trust and motivation.

The good news? 
You can handle it. 

❌ 9 Signs of a Micromanager:
1. They Struggle With Trust
2. They Struggle to Delegate
3. They Hover Over Your Work
4. They Need Constant Updates
5. They React Poorly to Initiative
6. They Obsess Over Small Details
7. They Focus on Blame Over Solutions
8. They Give Overly Detailed Instructions
9. They Demand Approval for Everything

A great boss trusts and empowers. 
A micromanager controls and suffocates. 

If these sound familiar, you might be dealing with one.

📍How to Handle It: 
✔️ Deliver quality work to build trust.
✔️ Understand why they micromanage.
✔️ Keep them updated before they ask.
✔️ Show results instead of explaining every step.
✔️ Have open conversations about working styles.
✔️ Frame independence as a way to improve efficiency.
✔️ Suggest structured check-ins to reduce interruptions.
✔️ If nothing improves, consider escalating or moving on.

Break free from micromanagement,
Own your work, build trust, and set boundaries.

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Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity, Inc. to Withdraw as Accrediting Entity

Last Updated: May 29, 2025

Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity, Inc. (IAAME) has confirmed that it will cease serving as a designated accrediting entity. IAAME and the Department are working together to identify a mutually acceptable date upon which IAAME’s work will conclude and all accrediting entity responsibilities will transfer to Center for Excellence in Adoption Services (CEAS).

The Department appreciates IAAME’s work and its many years of accrediting and approving U.S. adoption service providers (ASPs). IAAME’s work in support of children, their birth families, and prospective adoptive families under the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Adoption Convention), the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 (IAA), and the Intercountry Adoption Universal Accreditation Act of 2012 (UAA) began in 2017. IAAME served as the primary accrediting entity with jurisdiction encompassing the entire United States until CEAS was designated as a second accrediting entity in 2022 and the two organizations jointly performed the responsibilities of accrediting, approving, monitoring, and overseeing U.S. ASPs.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A former Food Network contestant who was convicted of killing her foster daughter will not get a new trial, according to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

Ariel Robinson was found guilty of homicide by child abuse in the death of 3-year-old Victoria “Tori” Rose Smith.

Victoria Rose Smith

Tori was beaten severely with a belt, causing her to suffer internal bleeding. She died at Robinson’s home on Sellwood Circle in Simpsonville in January 2021.

Het contrast is groot. De Hardenbergse Pullen werkt niet meer aan de rand van het Oegandese dorpje Mpigi, maar woont in een nieuwbouwwoning in Hardenberg. Met haar vijf geadopteerde kinderen van Oegandese afkomst is ze uit Afrika gevlucht. Haar woning is bekostigd door een Hardenbergse weldoener. Zelf geld om er een te huren of te kopen heeft ze niet.

„Ik ben het land ontvlucht na een hele hoop negatieve ervaringen die me gewoon te veel zijn geworden.’’

Overval en verkrachting

Vooral een overval begin 2020 op haar weeshuis van stichting Home of Hope and Dreams heeft er bij haar ingehakt. „Ik was in Nederland toen ik erover hoorde. Waarschijnlijk werd de overval gepleegd door vijftien mannen en onder aanvoering van een oud-medewerker. Er zijn wel mensen opgepakt, maar tot een berechting is het nooit gekomen.’’

American couple adopt orphan girl: A ten-year-old girl who was taking shelter in a children's home in Hanumakonda was adopted by an American couple. The childless couple said that they would share the love of their parents with the child. The girl was handed over to them under the supervision of the District Collector. Officials said that many children have been adopted by foreigners in the past. The Collector called for the protection of orphaned children. In the past, many celebrities have similarly taken in orphans.

I don't know if the parents became too heavy.. or if they turned their eyes away and became orphans. Whatever the circumstances were, the little girl ended up in the orphanage as an orphan. She cried for her parents for many days. She yearned for her parents' love. The orphanage provides food.. supports her but.. doesn't caress her like a mother.. doesn't make her cry like a father. The little girl had the same worries in her mind. She didn't have parents.. She worried about why she and everyone in the orphanage were orphans without parents.

She was worried that no one would love her and take her in. And the one above must have heard the pain in that child's heart. He brought a couple to her to give her the love of her distant relatives. An American couple adopted the girl, who was far from her relatives' love , and came forward to raise her as their own child. With that, the child traveled from the orphanage to America. Those details..

An American couple has adopted a girl who is taking shelter in a children's home . The couple has announced that they will become parents to the girl and provide her with the love they have always had. The girl was handed over to the American couple under the supervision of the District Collector. The details are as follows. A ten-year-old girl is taking shelter in a children's home in Hanumakonda. The girl's details have been added to the Central Adoption Resources Department. The girl's details have been uploaded online with the intention of someone adopting the girl.

In this regard, a couple from America applied to the Central Adoption Resource Authority to adopt a child. The Central Adoption Resource Authority, which examined their application, agreed to the inter-country adoption according to seniority. With this, on Friday, the girl was handed over to the American couple under the supervision of Hanumakonda Collector Praveenya.

Speaking on the occasion, the Collector said that childless couples should adopt legally. DWO J. Jayanthi said that so far 10 children have been adopted to Italy, Malta, London and America as part of inter-country adoption. They say that the child waiting for the love of his/her parents will no longer have that pain. They say that it would be good if more people come forward.. take these orphaned children in their arms .. give them a family. They are praising the couple who adopted the orphan.

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My daughter won’t ask me for money at 15.

She’ll already have ₹50 lakhs in her name — and the brains to use it.

We’re not raising her to depend on us — we’re building her financial freedom from day one.

Our plan is simple:
– Parents Invest ₹5,000/month each
– That's ₹1.2 lakhs/year
– 15-year goal: ₹50 lakhs
– Investing in NIFTY50 Index Funds
– Step-Up SIP: +8% every year
– Expected returns: 10% CAGR
– Diversified portfolio
– Review annually

₹50 lakhs won’t just give her money.
It’ll give her options.

Study anywhere.
Start her own business.
Live with freedom.

BUT—we’re not giving her blind cash.
We’re training her to respect money — at every age.

At 10 — she’ll know saving ≠ investing. 
At 15 — she’ll track her portfolio like her marks. 
At 25 — she won’t ask for a dowry. She’ll bring equity to the table. 
Because money without mindset is a liability. 
So we’re raising her with both.


Do you think every child should have a portfolio before their first phone?

Let’s talk in the comments.

n September of 2022, at the start of her senior year at Indiana’s Purdue University, Mia Griffin was working in her bedroom, laptop propped up on her knees, when an e-mail came in from 23andMe saying that her genetic testing was completed. Mia was not in a hurry. She’d bought the kit a year before, when she’d seen a sale on Amazon. It was an impulse buy for which her enthusiasm had quickly waned. It took months before she got around to spitting into the tube and mailing it back in the prepaid package.

When she logged on, all seemed as anticipated. The test listed her ancestry as 99.9 per cent East Asian and Indigenous American. (At the time, the two were lumped together by the company.) No great surprise there—she had been adopted in 2002 from China, one of more than a hundred and sixty thousand children sent abroad to the United States and other countries in the course of three decades. Not knowing her family’s medical history, she had taken the test mainly to find out if she had a heightened genetic risk for cancer, and she was relieved to learn that she did not, although the test showed a propensity for lactose intolerance and an allergy to cats, two things she already knew about.

Mia knew that finding family was a possibility, but it wasn’t on her mind. She clicked anyway on the tab that listed genetic relatives. There it was at the top of the list: Zhou Changqi, born in 1956.

“You inherited half of Zhou Chang’s DNA,” the report stated. “Predicted relationship—Father.”