CHENNAI: As a ray of hope to prospective adoptive parents with disabilities, S Velmayil (34) and P Baby (36), a couple with disabilities from Srivaikuntam in Thoothukudi district, adopted a four-month-old baby on Tuesday. The child was assigned to couple after a wait of four years but the adoption committee had recently rejected them, citing disabilities as a reason. TNIE had reported this. The baby was finally brought home after the couple underwent a physical examination and were declared fit.

P Baby, the mother, was at a loss for words to express her happiness. She said the adoption committee has asked them to take care of the baby with the help of Velmayil’s parents and handed over the child by 5 pm.

Both Velmayil and Baby have locomotor disability of 90% and 80% respectively; while it has affected the lower limbs of the former, the latter can’t move her right hand and right leg.

The couple, who got married in 2016, live with Velmayil’s parents. Baby is a noon meal organiser and Velmayil works at a fuel station. They registered to adopt a child in 2020, following which social workers inspected their house twice and cleared all formalities. In June, the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) informed the couple that a specialised adoption agency in Dindigul has assigned them a baby born in March.

However, a five-member adoption committee said the couple would not be able to care for the child, particularly in the first two years of age, due to their physical disabilities. Taking a decades-old disability certificate as basis and without examining them further, an ortho surgeon from Government Thoothukudi Medical College Hospital said the couple was unfit to adopt the child. But the final recommendation from the medical board chairman stated that they could handle the baby.

The Romanian authorities express their understanding of the pain of the Romanian family from Leeds whose children were taken into foster care by the British state, but consider that the reasons behind this decision are "legal and justified", reports RareșPetru Achiriloaie, the president of the National Authority for the Protection of Child Rights and Adoption (ANPDCA), through a post made on the institution's page.

Yhe President of the Child Protection in Romania says that what happened in Leeds represents a "sad event with a big impact both in the Romanian community in the territory and in British society". "Emotions took the place of reason and, carried by good intentions, people let things degenerate into a situation that turned into a riot We understand the family's pain and desire to keep their children close. Many things could have gone better, on both sides, but the important thing is to find solutions to resolve the conflict peacefully, with understanding and calmness. We understand the parents' point of view, we understood that they felt powerless, wronged and that they reacted out of fear", says Rareș-Petru Achiriloaie, president of ANPDCA.

Child Protection in Romania considers the reasons of the British colleagues legal and justified 

On the other hand, the ANPDCA president says that the Romanian authorities understand the reasons why the British authorities took the decision to act in the Leeds case.

By Edward B. Fiske

New York Times News Service

NEW YORK - Two religious social service agencies, one Protestant and the other Roman Catholic. have begun programs to arrange the adoption of South Vietnamese orphans by American couples.

The agencies are the Holt International Children's Fund an Evangelical Protestant organization in Eugene Ore., and the Catholic Committee for Refugees of the United States Catholic Conference, the administrative arm of the American bishops.

The new programs are the latest in a series of recent efforts by public officials and private individuals to regularize procedures for the intercountry adoption of Vietnamese orphans. They bring to four the number of American agencies licensed to arrange such adoptions.

Wisconsin State Journal

By RICHARD FLASTE

(c) N.Y. Tunes News Service

NEW YORK — The.airlift of children from South Vietnam, begun last week with a sense of urgency and compassion, has left in its wake bitter argument over whether taking children from their homeland is an appropriate or necessary way to deal with a crisis.

Those who have always opposed foreign adoption because they see it depleting nations of their children are angrier than ever. At the same time, some who might defend

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ISS Conferentie in Australië

07/04/2016 - Categorie: KID-DNA Databank

De Australische afdeling van de International Social Service (ISS) organiseert in samenwerking met de universiteit van Melbourne een tweedaagse conferentie over grensoverschrijdende maatschappelijke dienstverlening.

Op de conferentie komen professionals uit de sociale sector, de wetenschap en de rechtspraak samen om te spreken over zeven onderwerpen die verband houden met het bredere thema van de conferentie. Zo komt internationale kinderbescherming, interlandelijke adoptie, draagmoederschap en donorconceptie, internationale kinderontvoering en kinderhandel aan bod.

Binnen het thema donorconceptie geeft Hans van Hooff, senior beleidsmedewerker bij Fiom, een lezing over de Fiom KID-DNA Databank.

Arun Dohle

20 Mar (1 day ago)

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I don't know if this is his real name but it's Krucial Kushal ... Sandy was his support worker so she's all over it .. contact her if you want more details

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