According to the latest reports (February 2022), 234 children have been adopted by Maltese parents so far. Sangeeta Bahadur, the Indian High Commissioner to Malta, told TVM News that Maltese parents adopting children from India is another link in the chain that is strengthening ties between India and Malta. Ms. Bahadur also stressed that the relationship between India and Malta is excellent and that India received support from Malta during the pandemic and on other occasions as well.

The Minister for Social Policy and Children’s Rights of Malta, Dr. Michael Falzon, at a conference on Adoption National Strategy revealed that a record number of children were adopted by Maltese families in 2018, and more than 70 % were from India. In the year 2018, it was considered the best year for adoption in the last 10 years. He noted that the best interests of the children are always the priority in this process of adoption. Furthermore, Dr. Falzon stated his focus on furthering the adoption strategy in Malta. Different countries follow different rules of adoption in Malta. With India’s adoption procedure being less intricate and highly accessible than most other countries, it has greater records of adoption from India.

The process of adoption is convenient in India with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), which was established by the Ministry of Welfare, Government of India in 1990. CARA regulates, monitors, and promotes the adoption of orphans, abandoned, or surrendered children, with the principal aim of finding loving families for children who need care and protection. An international webinar held on the occasion of International Adoption Month 2020, “Adoption across Borders: Sharing of Experiences,” was chaired by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani. It was attended by esteemed dignitaries and diplomats from India, along with 12 central authorities of foreign countries, 14 Indian diplomatic missions, and 3 foreign embassies who participated in the webinar. The Central Authorities of Malta and France also presented their views and best practices. A Maltese couple who pursued the adoption of a second child from India were stuck during the lockdown in 2020. However, a few weeks later, they traveled back to Malta, adopting and thanking each other during the adoption process in India.

On March 24th, 2021, the High Commissioner of Malta in India, H.E. Reuben Gauci, met Mrs. Smriti Irani, to discuss women’s rights and the adoption of Indian children by Maltese families.

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Our International Post Adoption Tracing Service (IPATS) provides tracing and reunion support to NSW residents who have been affected by adoption, where one party is now overseas.

This can concern an adoption that took place within NSW, within Australia, or in an overseas country, in which the adopted person or biological family member resides in NSW and is searching for an adopted person or biological family member overseas.

Our goal is to locate and reunite family members and facilitate contact (when appropriate) in a supportive, respectful and empathetic manner.

Our service is free as we are funded by the NSW Government’s Department of Communities and Justice.

Please note ISS Australia has limited search services available in some of the countries in which Australia has facilitated intercountry adoptions. Therefore, additional search related costs may also apply.

Ex-Strongsville adoption agency employee sentenced for schemes to bribe Ugandan judges, lying to adopt Polish girl, who was raped

CLEVELAND, Ohio— A former employee of a defunct Strongsville adoptions agency was sentenced Friday to one year and one day in prison for two adoptions schemes that included bribing Ugandan officials and lying to Polish authorities about the adoption of a girl, who was later raped.

U.S. District Judge James Gwin sentenced Debra Parris, 70, to below the recommended sentence of about three years. He said he would have sentenced her to a longer prison term for her “terrible conduct” if it wasn’t for her serious healthcare needs.

“The amount of damage you’ve done to these children is horrendous,” Gwin said. “You’ve caused immeasurable psychological damage to these children and parents.”

Gwin also ordered Parris to pay a $10,000 fine and $118,197 in restitution to 42 families. He allowed her to self-report to prison by Jan. 9, unless the Bureau of Prisons directs her otherwise.

"I don't want any more contact with you!" her adoptive mother announced coldly and succinctly. "In retrospect, that break is the best thing that happened to me," says Myranda Hilhorst (52) from Hooglanderveen now. She describes her experiences as an adopted child in her book Wees.

Adoption law

In 1956 the Adoption Act came into effect in the Netherlands. This law has legalized adoption as a legal child protection measure. With adoption, the legal parentage of a child is transferred to the intended parents. The legal bond with the biological parents is completely broken in the Netherlands by adoption.

Hague Adoption Convention

In 1995, the Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in the Field of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention) entered into force between 66 countries. The agreements made are aimed at ensuring that the adoption procedure takes place as carefully as possible. The interests and rights of the child are central. Mediation by questionable persons or organisations, child trafficking and the pursuit of profit must thus be excluded.

The countries that are affiliated to the Hague Adoption Convention follow the same procedure for adoption and have made agreements with adoption mediators (in the Netherlands these are the permit holders ). The affiliated countries may apply different requirements and conditions. For example, about the possibility of adoption by one person or by a homosexual couple. While the treaty allows for these adoptions, not every country is required to allow them.

The Kolkata Police have arrested three NGO workers for duping couples on the pretext of arranging kids for adoption. The incident came to the fore when the police found an advertisement regarding child adoption on the road.

By Rajesh Saha: Three NGO workers have been arrested for duping childless couples on the pretext of arranging kids for adoption. The incident came to the fore when the police found an advertisement regarding child adoption on the road.

The advertisement invited couples to the NGO for child adoption. During the patrolling, a police officer of Haridevpur police station, Pritam Biswas, found a similar advertisement at Kabardanga More on Mahatma Gandhi Road.

Based on the advertisement given by Sri Ramkrishna Natun Jibandan Sevashram, the police official contacted the NGO and nabbed the accused persons.

Police sources said, seeing the said advertisement, the officer contacted the subscriber, Ranjit Das, who stated that he himself, his wife Madhabi Roy, his sister-in-law Supriya and others run a society named Sri Ramkrishna Natun Jibandan Sevashram.

Mirjam (49) found her biological family in Chile after a long search. But thirteen years later, a DNA test shows that she is linked to the wrong family. “It turned out that nothing was known about me, there was really nowhere to find a line to the family to which the nun had linked me.”

“When I got the results from MyHeritage a year and a half ago on Good Friday, I was transfixed. Surely it couldn't be true that the siblings I'd found after a long search wouldn't be biologically related?

After a night of lying awake, I called MyHeritage. "Can you check again if this is correct?" I asked them. The lady on the line was very sorry, but had to disappoint me. "There's really no match," she said. "These people you did the DNA test with aren't biological relatives." I got into bed and pulled the covers over my head. I could only cry, from the bottom of my soul.

Twice my identity had been taken from me. The first time when I was illegally adopted from Chile. The second time by a Dutch nun I had engaged to find my biological family.”

Huge shock

Holt is acting to holistically address the changes with lifelong support

Eugene, OR, Nov. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In honor of National Adoption Month, Holt International Children’s Services is showcasing the evolution of international adoption and emphasizing Holt’s lifelong adoption services available to families and adoptees. In addition to these services, the organization’s partnerships allow for families to apply for funding to support their international adoption journey. Holt representatives and affiliates are available to share relevant stories for media representatives during National Adoption Month including:

Do you want to know more about international adoption and how it is evolving? Eugene-based Holt International has welcomed over 44,000 children from 27 countries through international adoption and today reaches over 1 million children and individuals around the world. Truth is, the profile of adoption has significantly changed, and Holt is growing to provide holistic support services. If you seek to learn more about how adoption has changed and how Holt’s global impact is adapting, reach out today. We can present personal stories from adoptees and families to give insight and encouragement.

Post-Adoption Services are available for adoptees and families on their lifelong journey! Holt’s post adoption services team stands committed to serving all those whose lives have been touched by adoption: Adoptees, adoptive families, birth parents, and the entire adoption constellation. Holt offers these services to anyone seeking assistance, even if Holt was not the placing agency. Our team is here to care for families through their lifelong journey of adoption. To learn more about these programs, visit https://www.holtinternational.org/post-adoption/.

Funds may be available to assist with International Adoption! We believe that finances should not be the primary barrier to prospective adoptive parents considering adoption. We partner with Gift of Adoption, Connected Hearts, and others who work to reduce or remove financial barriers for qualified families through grants and support.

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Also offer adopted children from the US the chance of a family in the Netherlands. With this call, COC Netherlands and Meer dan Gewenst respond to the decision of Minister Weerwind (Legal Protection) to break the adoption relationship with the US.

In a letter to the House of Representatives dated 2 November, Minister Weerwind announced that he would break off the adoption relationship with the United States and seven other countries.

"Children are now at risk of being left behind in temporary US foster care when they could be given a loving home in the Netherlands," said COC and the organization for rainbow families Meer dan Gewenst . "That is regrettable and undesirable."

The aim of the review by the Netherlands of the intercountry adoption policy is to reduce the risk of abuses. In the past, abuses have led to suffering among adopted children and often also among their biological and adoptive parents. COC and Meer dan Gewenst wholeheartedly support the objective of preventing abuses.

The Netherlands, which paused international adoptions in 2021 due to structural abuses, promises to soon reinstate the possibility of adopting from the Philippines, Hungary, Lesotho, Taiwan, Thailand, and South Africa.

Cooperation between the Netherlands and the countries from which adoption will be resumed is intensifying, the government confirmed.

A similar type of cooperation relationship with Bulgaria and Portugal is expected in the first half of 2023 following an investigation by the Central Authority for International Children’s Affairs.

At the same time, the adoption cooperation relationship with the US, China, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Peru, Colombia, Burkina Faso, and Haiti is being phased out.

“Now that it is clear from which countries intercountry adoption will remain possible and which not, information and information meetings will follow and family surveys will be resumed. This will bring an end to an uncertain time for those involved,” said Legal Protection Minister Franc Weerwind