"It's really difficult to know where I belong."

Mimi Woods, from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, was adopted from Thailand at the age of three.

Over the years she has struggled with issues around identity and belonging, but wanted others to know they were not alone.

The 22-year-old said adoption was a "taboo subject" which "needs to be talked about more".

Mimi and other young Welsh adopted people have created a bilingual podcast episode for the National Adoption Service for Wales about their experiences featuring nine adopted people between the ages of 13 and 26.

KEY POINTS

• JPMorgan Chase said it has reached a settlement regarding victims of late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
• The bank’s litigation with the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Epstein matter remains, however. Its claims against former executive Jes Staley, who was friends with Epstein, are also active.
• Last week, lawyers for a Epstein victim, called Jane Doe 1 in documents, asked the court to reopen JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s deposition.

JPMorgan Chase is prepared to pay $290 million in a settlement with victims of the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC on Monday.

The settlement does not include an admission of liability by the bank, the person said.

DR. MICHAEL BOWIE

DIRECTOR (FLORIDA)

Executive Director Recruitment, Retention, and Multicultural Affairs

The Council has today agreed on its position for an update of the EU’s anti-trafficking law. Forced marriage and illegal adoption will explicitly feature as types of exploitation covered by the directive. EU countries must also make sure that people knowingly using services provided from victims of trafficking can face sanctions.

I am glad we agreed today to criminalise the intentional use of services provided by a victim of trafficking across the EU. It is an important step in the fight against human trafficking.

Gunnar Strömmer, Swedish minister for justice

Forced marriage and illegal adoption

The agreed text makes clear that member states are obliged to criminalise human trafficking for the purpose of forced marriage and illegal adoption. This will better equip member states’ law enforcement and judicial authorities to effectively combat trafficking in human beings for the purpose of these two forms of exploitation.

Rohtak will have an agency for child adoption soon. The process to set up the facility has started. Ch. Lakhi Ram Arya Jagannath Ashram, a shelter-home for children in Rohtak, has sent a proposal in this regard to the office of the District Child Protection Officer. Rohtak Deputy Commissioner Ajay Kumar visited the ashram and inspected the facilities being provided to the inmates on Thursday.

“There are seven child-adoption agencies in the state as of now. Rohtak district does not have any such facility, due to which the local residents desirous of adopting children were facing difficulties,” he stated.

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-foreign-adoptions-investigation-e7b826ee4a54d3680fec8b64f07da951?fbclid=IwAR2e-BQdkTKqe17Ov0rq6nvGn3fBVly2Je6lUF-hsIOBKqYxr-zyt7mKn1U_aem_th_AY1n_8d2ctgxPuTTpDDGEvrhAmqHM0aYsEv-lvfRFffrsfMt2ftSHxcZVjHsde7dFy4&mibextid=S66gvF 

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said Thursday it will investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the United States.

The new cases in the commission’s expanded inquiry into South Korea’s foreign adoption boom involve adoptees in 11 nations including the United States, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden who were adopted from 1960 to 1990. More than 370 adoptees from Europe, North America and Australia filed applications last year demanding their cases be investigated.

Abstract

Approximately 3600 Korean children have been adopted to Australia, as of 2023. Existing studies have tended to approach transnational or intercountry adoption from child development, social welfare, or identity perspectives. Research on Korean adoption to Australia is relatively scarce. The current article approaches the population from a migration perspective, building on Richard Weil’s conceptualization of transnational adoption as “quiet migration.” Drawing on both Korean-language data from South Korean governments and Australian data, the authors analyse Korean adoption to Australia as a state-sanctioned transnational migratory mechanism that facilitated the orderly movement of children from so-called “deficient” families of predominantly single mothers in South Korea to adoptive families in Australia. Situating adoption practices within the socio-political contexts and larger migration trends of both countries, the authors identify multiple enabling factors for channelling the ‘quiet’ flow of Korean children for adoption and argue the very ‘quietness’ of the adoption system is a source of concern despite Australia’s relatively stringent regulations. A migration perspective and analysis of these enabling factors contributes to the conceptualization of adoption as a socio-political state-sanctioned phenomenon, rather than a solely private family affair.

Keywords:transnational adoption; intercountry adoption; Korea; Australia; quiet migration; orderly migration

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Due to this, the process of issuing adoption orders, birth certificates, and no objection certificates (NOCs) have come to a halt in Maharashtra.

A group of over 250 affected prospective adoptive parents (PAP) has written to the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) — the apex government regulating body for adoption — on Monday, after the Bombay High Court’s stay on the transfer of adoption cases to the district magistrates (DMs) of Maharashtra.

On January 11, the Bombay HC had directed the state government not to transfer pending adoption proceedings to the DMs, as mandated under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2021.

In November 2021, Swara took everyone by surprise with her announcement of adopting a child.

Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker on Tuesday announced that she is expecting her first child with politician-husband Fahad Ahmad. The Nil Battey Sannata star shared the news on Twitter and revealed that the baby is due in October. That being said, the news raises questions on whether Swara will still pursue adoption for which she had applied in 2021.

In November 2021, Swara took everyone by surprise with her announcement of adopting a child. She even got herself registered as a 'Prospective Adoptive Parent' (PAP) with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).

When The Free Press Journal had asked Bhasker to elaborate on the same, she said, “It's at a very early stage right now because the waiting period for this process is quite long. Perhaps, that is needed, because I think that the state and (CARA), are extremely careful to make sure that the orphaned children are being given to adoptive parents, who will take care of them, and who will be parents and in the truest sense of the word, and who will love them and keep them safe.”

“I don't know how many years it will take for me to actually be assigned a child, it's a random lottery system, you cannot choose if a child is allotted to you. So, in that sense, the whole method by which adoption takes place is quite impartial and fair,” she added.

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