The great sadness of against you wants to have to give up your child, because of the 'shame'.
Becoming a mother without being married was often considered a sin in the 50s, 60s and 70s. That is why thousands of women at that time had to give up their babies for adoption immediately after birth, against their will.
One of those 'remote mothers' is Trudy Scheele-Gertsen (75), who, together with women's rights organization Bureau Clara Wichmann, filed a lawsuit against the Dutch State because of these abuses.
“There are women who have had to give birth blindfolded with washcloths or a sheet over their eyes or even with a pillowcase over their heads, after which they had to give up their child.”
The HC was hearing a petition filed by a couple against the 2021 order of the Bhiwani Family Court, which had dismissed their application under Section 56(2) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
Holding that application for adoption cannot be dismissed merely on the ground that a biological mother cannot become a mother in dual status – which is a biological mother as well as adoptive mother – the Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside an order of the Bhiwani Family Court in this regard.
The HC was hearing a petition filed by a couple against the 2021 order of the Bhiwani Family Court, which had dismissed their application under Section 56(2) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
The petitioner-appellants contended before the HC that appellant no. 2 (wife of appellant no. 1) initially was married to respondent (man) and a female child was born of this marriage in 2012. Later, the respondent-man and the appellant got divorced. Thereafter, appellant no. 2 (woman) married appellant no. 1 in 2017.
Both appellants then filed an application under Section 56 of the Act read with Regulations 52(4) and 55(2) of the Adoption Regulations for adoption of female
Kent County Council has the largest child protection department in the UK.
It is warning there could be an increase of 250% in referrals of children that need to be investigated and kept safe when lockdown is eased further.
Matt Dunkley, corporate director for children and young people at Kent County Council, said: "What we are looking at is a huge surge in September in children needing to be seen, families needing to be assessed, when they are at the end of their tether after six months being locked down or being out of the eye of their school... that leaves us with a huge budget problem."
"In September, just when the money from the government is drying up, the extra money that they've given for coronavirus will be beginning to dry up. So children's services are facing their biggest challenge."
Before COVID-19, 40,000 cases were referred to the department each year.
Kent County Council has the largest child protection department in the UK.
It is warning there could be an increase of 250% in referrals of children that need to be investigated and kept safe when lockdown is eased further.
Matt Dunkley, corporate director for children and young people at Kent County Council, said: "What we are looking at is a huge surge in September in children needing to be seen, families needing to be assessed, when they are at the end of their tether after six months being locked down or being out of the eye of their school... that leaves us with a huge budget problem."
"In September, just when the money from the government is drying up, the extra money that they've given for coronavirus will be beginning to dry up. So children's services are facing their biggest challenge."
Before COVID-19, 40,000 cases were referred to the department each year.
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Over 2,000 children have died in specialised adoption agencies since 2014, the Ministry of Women and Child Development said on Friday.
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Over 2,000 children have died in specialised adoption agencies since 2014, the Ministry of Women and Child Development said on Friday.
Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani shared the data as per which 27,085 children have been adopted since 2014.
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In 2021-22, as many as 2,991 in-country adoptions were recorded while 414 inter-country adoptions took place, the minister said.
As many as 28,663 Indian applicants are waiting to adopt a child in the country, the Women and Child Development ministry said on Friday, and noted that the number of adoptions are not declining.
Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, Women and Child Development minister Smriti Irani said 1,030 foreign applicants (including Non-Resident Indians and Overseas Citizens of India) are registered with the Central Adoption Resource Authority for adoption.
Asked if the adoptions under CARA are declining, she responded by saying "no".
In 2021-22, as many as 2,991 in-country adoptions were recorded while 414 inter-country adoptions took place, the minister said.
The story of adoption is told most often from the perspective of adoptive parents. This stands to reason, with all adoptees being minors at their time of relinquishment and most adoptive parents wanting to adopt an infant rather than an older child.
However, there is a growing cohort of adoptees, many now adults with children of their own, who are speaking up about their lived experiences and turning the traditionally more palatable adoption narrative on its head.
Joining this growing movement in support of changing the adoption narrative and centring the adoptee, family-focused non-profit Arise works to inform, upskill and strengthen family units through its various support programmes.
Part of this is adequately preparing families for adoption through psychosocial education based on a diverse range of adoptee voices.
In newly translated book, 'She is Angry,' Korean Danish author urges Korea to stop 'exporting' babies, calls for more financial support for unwed moms
By Lee Yeon-woo
Being lauded as "heroes" during the Korea's industrialization period, manufacturing workers were commonly portrayed as a key driving force behind Korea's dramatic rise from a war-torn country to one of world's fastest-growing economies in the 1970s.
Although their contribution was forgotten, however, there is another unknown group of people who also played a part in Korea's rapid economic growth: adoptees.
From 1956 to 1994, many Korean babies were sent North American and Western European countries through international adoption. Korea's uncontested status as the world's largest exporter of babies was later replaced by other developing countries.
In a report titled "Comforting an Orphan Nation," lecturer and author Tobias Hubinette says Scandinavian countries such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark adopted the most Korean children per capita during that the period. In Denmark, nearly 8,000 Korean babies were adopted between 1970 and 2021, according to Danish International Adoption (DIA).
In the book titled "Hun Er Vred" in Danish, which can be translated into English as "She is Angry," author Maja Lee Langvad shares her life as a Korean adoptee in Denmark. Her book was translated recently into Korean and published here. "She is Angry" is the Korean adoptee's personal account of her and fellow adoptees' lives in Europe and the traumas of adoption.
Born in 1980, Langvad said she was raised hearing that she would have struggled in poverty and hunger if she had not been adopted. Ever since she came out as a lesbian, people began to tell her that she was so lucky to get the chance to live in Denmark, a country more "open" to sexual minorities.
The cover of "Hun Er Vred" by Maja Lee Langvad. Courtesy of Nanda Publication
She has observed that those attitudes toward Korean adoptees reflect a sense that developed countries are superior to developing countries.
"I was asked to feel grateful for being adopted for my whole life," Langvad said.
But, she said, she has different feelings about her life as a Korean adoptee in Denmark.
She calls herself a victim of transnational adoption, a term she chose to use instead of "international adoption," claiming that it better shows the structural inequalities between countries.
"She is angry because she was imported. She is angry because she was exported," Langvad writes in the book. The author said she uses the third person to refer to herself instead of the first person, because she believes that what she felt and experienced while growing up can be generalized to what other adoptees went through.
"She thinks contemplating children's nationalities for adoption is no different from choosing wines in department stores based on their countries of origin," the author added.
She is sharply critical of the nature of transnational adoption, as she says that it is a business and adoption agencies are cashing in by "selling children overseas."
"Even though national adoption is better for children in most cases (as adoptees share the same nationality and national culture of their adoptive parents), those agencies indiscriminately send children abroad to get higher brokerage fees," Langvad said.
According to Rep. Kim Sung-ju of the Democratic Party of Korea, private adoption agencies get paid an average of 2.7 million won for each national adoption and 20 million won to 30 million won for each international adoption. Holt International is known to charge around 48 million won to 68 million won for adopting a Korean child abroad.
The adoption agencies denied the allegation, claiming that the money goes to operating orphanages and employees' salaries.
An orphanage in Korea operated by Holt International Korea Times file
International adoption in Korea first began in 1954 after the Korean War left a large number of biracial Korean children, later expanding to monoracial Korean children.
Today, unwed mothers who stay at shelters run by adoption agencies are often solicited to fill out an adoption agreement during counseling without being given sufficient information, according to Choi Hyoung-suk, the public relations manager of the Korean Unwed Mothers and Families Association (KUMFA).
Nine out of every 10 babies ― of the 492 babies adopted last year ― were born to single mothers, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
"She is not a person who unconditionally opposes transnational adoption. She is angry because adoption is misused to deal with babies from single mothers and parents in poor conditions," Langvad said.
Instead of transnational adoption, Langvad suggest more financial support and building more shelters for parents and unwed mothers as the best solution, before adoption is considered.
She said her target audience is Korean readers, as she has a message to deliver to them.
"In this wealthy country where the birthrate is at an all-time low, why do you keep sending children abroad?" Langvad asks.
