A horrific post on a dating site has triggered a number of replies that suggest giving up children just to be with a lover is a lot more common than most people would imagine

A man's stark request to his match on a dating site has shocked singletons - but it turns out he isn't the only person to have made such a request. Posting on a dating site, a guy called Arron told his match Lauren that she was "looking good in her pics" before asking a quite shocking question.

He said: "Would you be willing to put your children up for adoption? I want to date someone without kids, so looking for someone who is willing to free themselves of their current kids xx." While it is unclear whether he was joking or not, it seems a number of people have actually done this, according to the comments below the post on Reddit. One poster said they knew of someone who had given up her own child to ensure there was peace in the home she was now sharing with her new partner.

A user of the site said: "‌My mother-in-law was friends with a lady who actually did this back in the 90s. Her son and his son would fight (they were little kids.) so she gave him up. My mother-in-law stopped being her friend when she did that. He is not OK. My husband said he was put into our local kids home/orphanage then died of a drug overdose while in high school. People who give up their kids for partners are f*****."

The news of a final stop to international adoptions has hit many hard.

A dream has been shattered for a family in Ågerup in Roskilde.

Lotte and Morten Skov Christensen have been waiting for five years to register as applicants for international adoption. 

But on Tuesday, the news came that DIA, the country's only mediator of international adoptions, has turned the key. This has happened following a series of sanctions from the Danish Appeals Agency and the Ministry of Social Affairs, Housing and the Elderly.

- We are very affected by it right now. I started to cry when I read the news, says Lotte Skov Christensen and continues: 

DIA is initiating a controlled winding down of its work as a mediator of international adoptions. DIA's board decided this at an extraordinary board meeting based on an assessment of the current framework for finances and supervision as well as a number of new sanctions from the Danish Appeals Agency and the Ministry of Social Affairs.

The Danish Appeals Board supervises DIA and approves all adoptions to Denmark. It is now up to the agency to organize the further process in the area of ​​adoption - a process that is described in advance in a contingency plan.

As part of the plan, DIA can assist the Danish Appeals Agency during a transition period to ensure that existing knowledge about adoption and archives with information about the adoptee's identity are not lost.

"It is a difficult decision for the board of DIA to make. But we see no other way out. The area of ​​international adoption can no longer, under the current conditions in Denmark, be run by an NGO like ours. We hope that the transition in the long term will create greater clarity about roles and responsibilities for the benefit of children who do not have the opportunity to grow up in their biological family or their home country, as well as clarity for, in the words of the Prime Minister in the New Year's speech, future mothers and fathers, families in all colors of the rainbow , which carries around a homeless love," says deputy chairman Anne Friis from DIA's board.

On Friday, the Danish Appeals Board informed DIA that the agency is recommending to the Minister of Social Affairs to stop mediation from DIA's largest mediation country, South Africa, after more than 20 years of cooperation. Yesterday, Monday, the Ministry of Social Affairs' department announced that DIA's five other country agreements will be suspended for a period. There are currently 36 applicants (couples/singles) on the waiting list in six countries.

Danish International Adoption (DIA), which as the only organization in Denmark mediates international adoptions, has decided on Tuesday to stop mediating adoptions from abroad to Denmark.

This means that in practice it is no longer possible to adopt from abroad.

The decision was made by DIA's board after the Ministry of Social Affairs, Housing and the Elderly notified the organization that the last five countries from which DIA mediates adoptions will be suspended for a period of time.

Below you can learn more about how adoptions from abroad work:

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Shocking allegation against an NGO named St. Joseph’s Hospice have emerged, which include beating sick inmates and using their dead bodies for harvesting bones. Some reports have also alleged that it is also involved in harvesting organs of its inmates and selling it to other countries.

The hospice, which calls itself a ‘Home for Dying Destitute’, was founded by Father R. V. Thomas in 2011. The same Christian pastor is also running similar hospices in Dindigul and Paleshwaram. A hospice is a Christian equivalent of an Ashram where sick and destitute are supposed to be taken care of.

An article about an unauthorised vault being used to cremate the dead had appeared in The Hindu newspaper on 3rd February. However, this article had not included details of treatment meted out to inmates and allegations of bone harvesting by locals.

Now a Tamil channel named Thanthi TV has come up with a ground report, which has brought to light the allegations of locals against the the NGO.

• Published 02:02 03.12.09
• Latest update 19:50 03.12.09

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Romania probes Israeli adoption agency link in organ trafficking

By Ran Reznick

Romanian authorities are looking into possible links between Israeli adoption agencies and an illegal global conspiracy to sell organs for transplants.

The Romanian Embassy in Israel has asked for, and received from the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, a list of all children born in Romania who have been brought to Israel for adoption in recent years. The Romanian officials are trying to ascertain if all such children arrived in Israel with all organs in their bodies.