Three brothers in Ukraine set to be adopted by a family in Florida have been separated as the attacks from Russia continue to escalate.

A full week has passed since Russia initially launched an invasion into Ukraine, and attacks in both bigger cities and smaller villages across the country have been shellshocked as Russian forces continue to invade.

Three brothers are set to be adopted by Aaron and Breanna Andrews in Clermont, Florida, and Breanna told local news station WFTV that 9-year-old Daniil, the eldest, was moved west to a safer area of Ukraine, separated from his two younger brothers.

"We're very happy that he's moving to safety. I mean, that's our goal. We want that for all three of them, though," Breanna Andrews said.

CCAI Adoption Services' Judy Winger told WFTV that they have 45 families waiting to adopt nearly 81 children, but because of the current climate, there are concerns about limited resources, and communication has been erratic at best.

They say Serge Zevlever founded Hand of Help in Adoption to help find children in Ukrainian orphanages homes, including children with special needs.

The families say the adoption agency notified them Zevlever was killed several days ago while fighting for his country. They say his daughter said he was killed during a sniper attack on Ukraine.

Zevlever was more than an adoption facilitator or liaison for these families. They say he instantly became family to them when they began the adoption process.

"A big Ukrainian male with a small Ukrainian accent, but a huge heart. He was an absolute teddy bear," Christian Miller said.

Megan and Christian Miller had five biological children and a sixth on the way when they decided to adopt.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The adoptive parents of two small California boys who were reported missing in 2020 have been charged with killing the children, although their bodies have not been found, authorities said Wednesday.

Trezell West and Jacqueline West were arrested Tuesday night on murder and other charges in an indictment returned by a grand jury, Kern County District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer told a news conference in Bakersfield.

Orrin West, 4, and his brother Orson, 3, were reported missing from their family’s backyard in the desert town of California City on Dec. 21, 2020. A huge search by law enforcement agencies and community members failed to find them.

“This morning, I’m saddened to announce that the investigation has revealed that Orrin and Orson West are deceased,” Zimmer said. “The investigation has also revealed that they died three months before their adoptive parents reported them missing.”

The district attorney said she was not permitted to reveal any facts of the case until the trial.

Dr. Cho's memoir about Korean War orphans, abandoned children will be published in English in May, shedding light on why they were sent overseas to new families

Retired pediatrician Cho Byung-guk, 89, came to understand why some ethnic Korean adoptees search tirelessly for their birth parents and strive to figure out why they were sent overseas to new families, while interacting with numerous adoptees during her five decades of work.

"Every year at Holt Ilsan, we had groups of visitors from overseas. They were adopted by parents mostly in the United States and Europe when they were babies, so most of them don't speak or read Korean," Cho told The Korea Times.

Once their stays ? which could be for days or weeks ? end, there is one thing many of these adoptees do: they buy Cho's 2009 memoir, which is written in Korean.

"Although they don't understand Korean, they purchased the book and took it home with the hope that some of their Korean friends or neighbors could help explain those stories," Cho said.

Is it really in the child's best interest that we send him to an institution so early? Or could we arrange our lives differently while we have small children? Hye Secher Marcussen believes that feminists should take the lead and secure better rights for children.

Hye Secher Marcussen's biological mother knew that she would not be allowed to keep her child if she gave birth to another girl.

Hye's biological father had decided that. The parents already had two girls, and he didn't want any more. He wanted a boy.

So when the mother gave birth to Hye and they saw she was a girl, they immediately adopted her.

Instead, they adopted a boy and made him theirs. They let the outside world understand that it was him with whom Hye's mother had been pregnant.

Caritas says most of the children will come from heavily hit eastern Ukraine amid fears ‘humanitarian catastrophe approaching fast’

The Catholic charity Caritas Poland says it will take in 2,000 children from Ukrainian orphanages, with the first group of 300 arriving on Wednesday.

“Our eastern neighbours are talking about a humanitarian catastrophe that is approaching fast,” charity director Marcin I?ycki said.

“We have decided to respond to the crisis in Ukraine and provide shelter to the most vulnerable in our country.”

The children would come mainly from orphanages in eastern Ukraine, which has been worst affected by Russia’s assault on the country. The first group would be taken to Opole and Cz?stochowa in southern Poland and put up in charity centres and religious institutions.

On Wednesday 23 February, Seamus Kelly, an industrial school survivor, was outside the Probation Service headquarters just off Smithfield Square for the third time in about as many months.

His two earlier visits to the large stone building had been to protest outside. Today, though, he would get in.

Kelly, dressed in blue jeans and a black jacket and clasping a copy of his book in his hand, is 10 minutes early for his meeting with the director of the Probation Service.

It’s a meeting he has been pushing for since 2004, he says. “I need answers and I’m not going to stop this protest until I get them.”

Back in 2004 Kelly met with an assistant principal in the Probation Service to seek answers about the anomalies he had spotted in the official documents he had collected to try to piece together his story and understand the traumas of the early years of his life.

Harjinder Thind, host at RED FM, asked doctors to report mothers who were putting up babies for adoption

A complaint has been filed with the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council (CBSC) over comments made by Harjinder Thind, a host at the RED FM radio station located in Surrey, B.C.

The complaint, filed by Pitt Meadows-based artist Jag Nagra on Monday, concerns Thind's Punjabi-language morning broadcast on Feb. 24.

Nagra, a member of the non-profit Punjabi Market Regeneration Collective, was scheduled to talk on Thind's show that day to promote the organization's search for new board members.

While waiting to go on air, Nagra heard Thind claim there was "breaking news" that numerous South Asian mothers at Surrey Memorial Hospital were giving birth and "abandoning" their babies by giving them up for adoption.

For Morgan Terch, owner of Wilder Way Threads, business is more than just the bottom line. It’s gotta have heart. That’s why her shop, which sells vintage textiles, donates 25 percent of its proceeds to adoptive parents and families.

The story of Wilder Way began in 2020 when Terch and her husband and co-owner, Jeffrey, were on their own adoption journey. They were trying to bring their daughter, Eden, home from India and needed help to defray costs. Having both worked for a local adoption agency, they were aware of how difficult, and pricey, the process would be and knew they would need to get creative. Terch recalled a supplier in Turkey, whom she had bought pillow cases from for her home, and decided to reach back out to him. She purchased a small order, did a sale on her Instagram account, and sold all 40 items in an hour. Coincidentally, it turned out the man had been orphaned as a child, creating even more of a connection. From there, the seed of an idea blossomed into a plan and things seemed to fall into place. What if they could create a small business to help other people on the same path?

“I thought…let’s keep doing this,” says Terch. “I love looking at these textiles. I love that we’re supporting this man in Turkey…and his small business…that’s a win-win. And then we’re also helping make a way for us to provide a home for our future child.”

According to Terch, a typical adoption, international or domestic, can take years to finalize and cost upwards to $40,000. However, she goes on to highlight, it’s important to use a licensed, Hague-accredited service as it ensures that the proper, legal steps are taken.

“On one hand, that is probably a barrier that keeps a lot of people from adopting,” says Terch. “But, on the flip side, having worked in an adoption agency, I really see the benefit of [it] being expensive. The fees ensure that the adoption is done the right way.”

More than 14,000 girls and women went through the doors of mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and other institutions between 1922 and 1990.

Police in Northern Ireland are probing 29 allegations of criminal activity around mother and baby homes.

Officers have received reports from a number of people who were adopted from different named institutions and also from some who either worked there or were residents within these institutions.

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