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Fiom is the expertise center in the field of unwanted pregnancy, distance & adoption and kinship questions. Working at Fiom is based on the right to self-determination of unwanted pregnant women and the right of a child to know where he or she comes from and to grow up while retaining his or her own identity. Fiom offers information and help with unwanted pregnancy, aftercare in the field of adoption and guides people in their search for biological family at home and abroad. In addition, we manage the KID-DNA Database, which enables a match between a donor child and an anonymous donor. We do all this with about 80 motivated employees from our offices in 's-Hertogenbosch and Houten.

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Fiom is the expertise center in the field of unwanted pregnancy, distance & adoption and kinship questions. Working at Fiom is based on the right to self-determination of unwanted pregnant women and the right of a child to know where he or she comes from and to grow up while retaining his or her own identity. Fiom offers information and help with unwanted pregnancy, aftercare in the field of adoption and guides people in their search for biological family at home and abroad. In addition, we manage the KID-DNA Database, which enables a match between a donor child and an anonymous donor. We do all this with about 80 motivated employees from our offices in 's-Hertogenbosch and Houten.

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‘Did she feel guilty abandoning me in a parking lot? Did she wonder about me? For the first time in 30 years I thought, ‘I have to find her.’: Adoptee reclaims identity in search for birth family

“An endless black hole. Nothingness. Question marks. This is what marks my past, before I came to America as a 2-year-old orphaned Korean child to my new country, new family, new home, new name, and new identity: Kara Mee Bedell.

A Caucasian middle class Christian family in Michigan adopted me. They had 2 biological children of their own, but due to complicated pregnancies and desires for a larger family, they decided to adopt. This is when I came into the picture. Adoption has always been known as something good. There isn’t any question about it when someone mentions they are adopting. They are often times met with a smile, and praise for the good deeds they are offering to the world. Rescuing an ‘impoverished child,’ who wouldn’t see it as a good deed (I put ‘impoverished child’ in quotations as we’ll be coming back to that later). For many children who are adopted it becomes one, at least in the beginning; these children are given a home, education, healthcare, and most likely opportunities that would never afford them if they had been left in their countries of origin. However, was that the case for me? Let’s travel back to my childhood and adoption story…

I was, as I said, adopted when I was 2 years old from South Korea, found at a bus terminal in Goesan (a province 2 hours South of Seoul) crying, saying only my name Kang Misuk and my age 2 years old. I was brought to an orphanage in Cheongju on November 18, 1983. 10 months later, September 1984, I was flown to Detroit, Michigan to meet my new family, The Bedells. I have fond memories of my early childhood, as I was treated just as a sister by my siblings, in the shelter of my family protected from any ‘differences’ and only seen as one of the family. However, as I grew older and went to school is when the ‘differences’ became more prevalent. Kids would ask, ‘Why is your nose so flat? Why is your face flat? Where are you from? How did you get here?’ Some would even shout out, ‘Hey you, Chinese dude!’ I was a fighter though, and those kids didn’t usually win those arguments as I would retort, ‘Don’t you know an American when you see one?!’ This is how I saw myself, and I was proud to be able to say it.

Growing up in middle class rural America, the pride of being American is instilled in you at a young age. So even at the tender age of 4, I was yelling out these proclamations from the bottom of my belly. Being outgoing, and with a rather strong character, I was well liked among my classmates. Being different on the outside, in the end, didn’t affect my popularity in my early years of education. However, as the outside beauty changes and forms as a child grows older, I started to dislike my small eyes, short eyelashes, dark hair, and flat face. I tried out a perm in order to have the wavy caresses I saw in other girl’s hair, but it turned into a disaster as my aunt used the same type of perming solution as she did on her hair…I will leave this to your imagination, but yes, I looked like a poodle. I never understood why boys didn’t want to go out with me, as only when I looked in the mirror did I remember I was different – Asian.

Israel's health ministry has released a report for the first time, revealing that in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Israel lost babies born to (mainly) Yemeni immigrants, who were then offered up for adoption to Ashkenazi adoptive parents. . That reports the newspaper Haaretz. However, the ministry refuses to publish the report. The responsible minister Nitzan Horowitz of the Meretz party also refused to answer questions about the report. One reason could be that the government is preparing a compensation scheme for the families of children who have disappeared, and publication of the report would thwart that scheme because it would reveal the guilt of the Israeli state.

The report was prepared by the former director-general of the ministry, Prof. Itamar Grotto and two other employees of the ministry. Haaretz has seen it. It doesn't provide any new details or numbers, but it does suggest the very first time doctors, nurses and other caregivers acted as intermediaries in removing the babies, who were then offered up for adoption – for money or not – to Ashkenazi (Western) people. parents in and outside Israel. The idea was that Yemeni (and to a lesser extent other Jews from Middle Eastern or North African countries) were underdeveloped and could not take good care of their children. At least this way they could receive proper care and education.

The scandal of the missing Yemeni babies has caused a stir for years. The babies disappeared without a trace after medical treatment – ??or immediately after birth. The parents were told that the child had died, but no death certificates were issued, no places were designated where the babies were buried and medical records were later often found to be disappeared. It is estimated that around 5,000 babies may have disappeared this way. There were protests (one of them around Yemeni Rabbi Meshulam in the 1970s became nationally known – also because they handed out prison terms). In addition, there were no fewer than three official commissions of inquiry that, from the 1990s, examined the case but never gave a definitive answer. Newspapers wrote about the case, but did not clarify either. Only the rebellious newspaper Haolam Hazeh of Uri Avneri and the Mizrachi Shalom Cohen reported that it was pierced, but that was without consequence.

The current report quotes a woman who was a student and aid worker at the time, Shoshanna Shacham, at the Rosh Ha'ayin transit camp: “We saw cars coming and nurses feeding the occupants babies who then disappeared in their cars. I said wait, where are they taking it? And they replied: we improve their situation, give them to people with whom they have a better chance of survival. We accepted that then. But when the parents came, they were lied to that the children had died.” The report also cites medical articles from the time describing Mizrachi, and especially Yemeni, parents not being hygienic and unable to properly care for their children.

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SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run National Center for the Rights of the Child said Thursday that it had found and reunited 33 children who have been missing for a long time with their families through DNA tests.

This achievement is the result of a joint campaign to find missing children that has been promoted by many companies and institutions and eventually led such children and their families to register their DNA.

In fact, there was a case in which a missing child without surviving relatives or family members who grew up in an orphanage during childhood visited a police station to register his DNA after seeing an ad displayed on a beverage delivery truck.

The DNA of missing children and their families can be registered after they visit the women and youth division or the criminal affairs division of the police stations across the country and apply for a genetic analysis that can be completed through the collection of a gene specimen.

Through the tests, the center registers and manages the DNA of missing children and their parents looking for them through the ‘missing children management system.’

A Russian court has jailed for 21 years a former Orthodox priest, said to have adopted 70 children, for a string of child abuse offences.

Nikolai Stremsky was convicted of raping several children and other violent acts in his parish in the Urals in south-west Russia.

Stremsky was reputed to have Russia's largest family and was decorated with a national Order of Parental Glory.

Barred from the priesthood he has also been stripped of his honour.

As an abbot in the town of Saraktash, Stremsky and his wife ran a foster home from the early 1990s, adopting children from orphanages in the region. Most of the 70 they adopted have since grown up.

SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that grandparents can legally adopt their own grandchild, even though the child's biological parent is alive, when the arrangement is in the interest of the child's welfare.

The top court ruled in favor grandparents who filed an appeal to adopt their own grandchildren, and transferred the case to a district court in Ulsan, 415 kilometers southeast of Seoul, for a retrial.

The decision was the first Supreme Court ruling which allowed grandparents to adopt their grandchild even if the child has living parents, given that qualifications are met and the arrangement is in the interest of the child's welfare.

The suit was filed after the grandparents wished to adopt their daughter's son. The baby was born while the daughter was still in high school, and was left with the grandparents for upbringing.

The grandson has lived believing that the grandparents are his biological parents. His actual parents divorced while he was an infant.

An article from CQ Almanac 2000

Document Outline

Senate Committee Approves Treaty On Adoption

House Passes Bill To Implement Adoption Treaty

Senate Passes Bill; Quick Conference Expected

Thiruvananthapuram: A mother who left her girl child at the ‘ammathottil’, the electronic

cradle Kerala State Council for Child Welfare (KSCCW) in which a child could be placed

anonymously, retrieved the baby after seeing an advertisement regarding the adoption

mother approached the committee after recognising her child through the advertisements.

She revealed to the officials that she was compelled to abandon her child after her partner

November was adoption awareness month. The month is dedicated to celebrate families that have adopted children because they give the children emotional, social, legal, and kinship benefits of biological children. Adoptive families provide children an opportunity to be raised in a loving and stable home. Adoption enables caregivers to become parents or to grow their families by adding a child to their family as they give the child a home.

All positive conversations adults have with adopted children make a huge impact in their lives. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognises a child’s right to family life and, as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents or, where applicable, by members of the extended family or community.

The 2019 UN General Assembly resolution on the rights of the child recognised and prioritised the role of the family as the fundamental group of society and the natural environment for the growth and wellbeing of all its members, particularly children. Families have the primary responsibility for the nurturing and protection of children. In order for a child to achieve their full potential, he or she should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love, and understanding.

Sadly, 7.5 million children all over the world live in charitable children’s institutions, commonly known as children’s homes or orphanages, yet 80 per cent to 90 per cent of these children have a living parent or known relatives. In Kenya, an estimated 45,000 children live in charitable children’s institutions for various reasons such as the loss of a parent or primary caregiver, poverty at home, sickness and disability, violence, abuse, and neglect.

Some communities perceive life in a children’s home as “good” because the children have better meals, housing, and opportunities for schooling. Yet families play a critical role in a child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development that a children’s institution cannot give. The government through the National Council of Children’s Services is spearheading care reforms to promote the best interest of the child to ensure that children are cared for in families and communities.