What does cerebral palsy mean?

“It is also known as spasticity and is a posture and movement disorder caused by damage to the brain. In my case, this is due to a lack of oxygen at birth. My biological mother gave birth on the street, after which I ended up in a children's home in Mumbai.

I was adopted when I was seven months old and ended up in the Netherlands. This is where my disability was diagnosed. I can barely walk, so I have been in a wheelchair since I was three.”

Do you feel as young/old as you are?

“Actually, yes. At least I don't feel old! I think this is because I do a lot of business and am often among people. For example, I did wheelchair dancing, I enjoy acting and I am building a modeling career.

Adopted children experience many of the same issues in education as children in care, notes Kimberly Clarke

Ten cheers for Floella Benjamin, Civitas and the cross-party group of peers behind the report Breaking the Care Ceiling (Young people leave care, then are hung out to dry. Why don’t we help them get to university instead?, 11 September). However, I would urge them – and anyone who is considering the issues involved – to expand their work to explicitly include adopted children.

There is no doubt that children who are adopted have better outcomes than those who spend a lot of their young lives in care, but it is a widely believed myth that adoption magically erases or reverses the trauma that children have been through, and often continue to experience as they try to make sense of their lives.

Adopted children are 20 times more likely to be excluded from school than their peers. This in itself is evidence that adopted children experience many of the same issues in education as children in care, but often there is an expectation from professionals (educators and others) that they don’t deserve different treatment.
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During the 26 years that Alex Balógh has been in Denmark, her situation has gone from bad to worse, and she is now among the most vulnerable in society.

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Well-known adoption center says it has fallen victim to a conspiracy by Madhya Pradesh officials

A central Indian state has refused to renew the permit of a Christian orphanage, accusing it of running boys’ and girls’ hostels under one license.

The Department for Women and Child Development in Madhya Pradesh refused to renew the permit of the orphanage managed by Adharshila Sansthan (Cornerstone Institution), run by a Protestant couple, in Damoh district.

A woman adopted from Bangladesh in the 1970s filed a lawsuit in 2019 against Wereldkinderen, Terre des Hommes Netherlands and the Dutch State. The woman accuses these parties of having acted unlawfully in her adoption. Like the court ruling in 2021, the court of appeal today concluded that the case has expired.

The court of appeal upholds the court's ruling

After the court ruling in 2021, the woman lodged an appeal. The court of appeal today confirmed the ruling of the court that the case has expired.

The court took into account, among other things, that Terre des Hommes was not an adoption organisation, that it has not been established that employees of Terre des Hommes would have induced the woman's biological mother to give her up under false pretences, and that the woman waited too long to hold Terre des Hommes liable.

Like the court, the court of appeal was therefore unable to establish that Terre des Hommes was involved in or responsible for the course of events surrounding the adoptions from Bangladesh.

Application for initiation of investigation concerning human rights violations and incidents of historical significance in the field of international adoption 1.0 Introduction On behalf of the organization Danish Korea Rights Group (DKRG), we hereby submit an application to initiate an investigation concerning human rights violations and incidents of historical significance in the field of international adoption during the authoritarian rule in South Korea. DKRG is an organization for Danish adoptees from South Korea adopted to Denmark. At the time of writing, we represent more than 160 adoptees. DKRG is a non-profit interest organization that works for the rights of Danish adoptees from South Korea and for their rights to their own identity and personhood as adoptees and free individuals with their own ability and power to act as independent and free human beings. DKRG's inquiry to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the Republic of Korea is based on the fact that many adoptees in Denmark were adopted during the time of authoritarian rule in South Korea. We are adoptees who seek our Korean origins and wishes to examine our backgrounds as adoptees. Access to background information and historical facts for the adoptees are therefore of crucial importance and significance, and for some adoptees it is also important to be able to search for their origin. Both the access to background information for adoptees and the access to search for biological family are today hampered by the practice of adoption agencies, which dates back to the time of authoritarian rule, which is still de facto unregulated when it comes to post-adoption services and is important to ensure the human rights of adoptees.

Joint statement on illegal intercountry adoptions

Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib has been in contact with her fellow ministers in Ethiopia, India, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia, Congo and South Korea in connection with possible illegal adoptions. 

She stated this on Monday at a meeting with organizations representing adopted people.The minister gave the organizations an update on the investigation into the adoptions. This was requested in a resolution adopted in Parliament last year. For example, the archives of the Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs are being searched for traces of illegal adoptions. 

The Belgian consular posts in various countries are also involved in the investigation. They send their archives to Brussels, where they are analyzed.“We must do everything we can to tell the people involved the truth about their origins,” the minister said on Monday. Adoptions have allegedly been carried out over the past seventy years after kidnappings or with smuggled children, the resolution of June last year stated. If this is confirmed in the investigation, the Chamber will ask that Belgium officially recognize that such adoptions have taken place.Knack - Time To Read

The victims must receive help in their search for their biological relatives. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, the House may later decide to set up an investigation committee.

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Jimmy Lippert Thyden says he always knew he was adopted. He also knew that he had been born not in the United States, but in Chile. Raised in Virginia by very loving and committed adoptive parents, he says he never lacked anything. The 42-year-old who served in the US Marines is now an attorney who is married and has two young daughters.

“I was told that I was given up for adoption out of love,” Thyden said. “Given by a mother who loved me and wanted the best for me: a life full of opportunity, education and meaning.”