The Haryana State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (HSCPCR) has recommended Director General of Police (DGP) PK Agrawal to form special teams to rescue illegally adopted children from the deras run by transgenders across the state.

The commission has made the recommendation to the DGP after visiting a number of such deras in the state.

In Dadli Kheda dera at Narwana, a two-month-old girl child was found illegally adopted by mahant Resham Ma. As Resham failed to produce any proof of adoption, the commission took the custody of the girl and sent her to a Child Care Institution.

In Jind, two girls aged two and 17 were found illegally adopted in a transgenders’ dera by mahant Meenu and Seema. No adoption proof or any surrender deed was available with them whereas the Aadhaar cards of the girls found a mention of transgenders Meenu and Seema as parents. They said the girls were found at their doorstep.

Meanwhile, a boy recently managed to escape from the custody of a transgender dera in Jhajjar district. He said his parents had handed him over to the dera.

As many of you know: Chile has investigated their overseas adoption “program”. According to the Chilean investigation about 25 per cent of all their adoptions were illegal or unethical. The Chilean investigation sparked the current Swedish investigation of intercountry adoptions to Sweden.

So why do we have so much knowledge about Chilean adoptions but not the Korean ones? The answer is simple: Korea has not actually researched their adoption program so far. Just like Chile, Korea did have a truth and reconciliation investigation but unlike in Chile, the Korean one never included the adoption program.

An investigation of the Korean adoptions just started

Earlier in 2022, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHR) announced a research grant of 50 million won (approx. €/$30 000) for investigation of human rights violations carried out in relation to overseas adoption.

The Korean research team

MANILA – More adoptive parents and children longing for homes will have better chances of spending a lifetime together with the simplified process of adoption.

Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday said the finalization of the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 11642 or the Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child Care Act coincided with the 40th day since her adoptive mother, actress Susan Roces, passed away.

The co-author of the landmark law on child care was the keynote speaker at the ceremonial signing of the IRR at the Manila Diamond Hotel in Malate.

"This is a milestone in our shared aspiration to ensure the best interest and future of our children," Poe said in a statement.

The IRR will buttress collaborative efforts for the welfare of Filipino children.

Biological parents of a newborn girl have moved the Gujarat High Court for her custody to ensure she does not end up in jail with her surrogate mother.

The parents, originally from Ajmer, Rajasthan, came in contact with the surrogate a year ago. The procedure was carried out under the guidance of a doctor. In February, the pregnant surrogate was booked for kidnapping a child based on a complaint filed at the Gomtipur police station in Ahmedabad. She was arrested and kept in custody.

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The surrogate gave birth to the girl at Asarwa Civil Hospital two days ago and is willing to give the child to the biological parents. However, the Gomtipur police have refused to do so, as, according to rules, the surrogate gave birth to the child and the newborn will have to stay with her even when she is in jail. The surrogate will be re-arrested once she is discharged from the hospital.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Arvind Kumar has allowed an urgent hearing.

The FOX 13 Investigates team has obtained a video of Utah County Attorney David Leavitt discussing his "strategy” to adopt a Native American baby, allegedly taking advantage of his political influence to overcome a federal law designed to protect Native American children from being adopted by non-Native families.

The video was recorded by a documentarian in 2020. It has since been submitted to Homeland Security Investigations as part of a criminal human trafficking investigation.

The 17-minute clip first shows Leavitt expressing his struggle with the decision whether to pursue the adoption.

Leavitt went on to explain how he tried to broker a deal with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana, offering them the ability to export buffalo to Ukraine.

Although he is not blood-related to the child, the little girl was considered Leavitt’s step-foster-great niece.

A High Court judge has refused to approve the adoption of a 17-year-old girl in a case in which he said the Child and Family Agency (CFA) “completely failed” to support a relationship between the child and her natural mother.

In his ruling on Monday, Mr Justice Max Barrett said the girl’s natural mother had proven herself to be a “demonstrably competent” parent for her other children and was “literally begging” for a relationship with her daughter, referred to as Miss B.

Had the CFA “just done its job” and acted upon the woman’s plea six years ago for greater access and information about Miss B, “who knows” what type of progress towards family reunification could have occurred, he said.

The judge listed a litany of “manifold and serious failings” on the part of the CFA, including that it had failed to support appropriate access visits and to support the relationship between Miss B and her natural mother, who had objected to the adoption application.

Mr Justice Barrett noted the girl’s foster mother has done a “remarkable job” caring for the girl since she was just months old. There is a huge amount of mutual love between the pair, he added.

ALLOUEZ, Wis. — Tara DeGrave has been working for the past 16 years to help people choose the right parenting plan for them.

That includes adoption.

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Staff anticipate more people will seek those services

More than 100 privately run children’s homes in England with serious failings have been branded inadequate by inspectors, with several found to have links to private equity firms, an Observer investigation has found.

Poorly trained staff, chaotic management and a series of incidents that left children’s safety in danger were cited in official reports by Ofsted, which inspects children’s homes, as it concluded they were providing inadequate care. Several have closed since inspectors raised concerns.

The Observer examined the most recent Ofsted inspection of private children’s care homes. It found that 114 homes were given the lowest “inadequate” rating, which triggers further investigations. Of those, about 20 were run by providers with links to private equity. It comes amid continued frustration with the “broken” provision of children’s care homes.

Private firms now play a large role in providing care, with more than three-quarters of homes in England run by the sector in 2021. Local government figures have also pointed to the growing role of private equity, warning that the pursuit of profits and debt that can follow is not a sound basis upon which to run care homes.

Anntoinette Bramble, chair of the Local Government Association’s children and young people board, said: “The Competition and Markets Authority has confirmed our own findings that private equity providers are making extremely high profits and carrying concerning levels of debt that risks the stability of homes for children in care, which is paramount if they are to thrive.”

‘I’ve been putting the pieces together. Of our adoptions, our lives, and your death.’: Adoptee reflects on trauma of adoption in open letter to late sister

“Dear Lark,

I miss you. Over the years, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about you, our family, adoption, and have even taken an interest in the historical context of how our very unique lives came to be. It’s more than just dates, names, and events—and I have come to appreciate the stories more as I piece them together. It now makes sense why you were so good at doing puzzles. I remember how you’d have these large scraps of cardboard with the piles of puzzle pieces separated by color. These were puzzles with thousands of pieces so small it seemed you could fit them together in whatever way you wanted. Yet you would always piece them together.

I also remember the time our family dog, Mary, came bounding into the room and destroyed a puzzle you were working on. What a mess! You were definitely frustrated, but simply started again, and successfully solved it, as you always did. I only wish solving the puzzle of your pain during your time with us had been easy.

So much has happened since you left us in 2008, and I’ve been putting the pieces together around the circumstances of our adoptions, our lives, and your death. I’ve learned to stop asking why and instead I’m asking how. Asking why this happened to you has been more about me dealing with my pain over losing you. Being stuck in the realm of my own imagination and disbelief, blame, and guilt. Perhaps this letter is speaking to that, but I believe it’s also questioning how this happened and wanting to understand more deeply.

Roe v Wade has been the law of the land in America and at the heart of that nation's political debate for almost 50 years.

That debate continues even now that the law – which in 1973 established the right of a woman to have an abortion until the point of viability, or later if required to protect her health or life – has been overturned.

But at the centre of the very public legal drama, somehow hidden was not just one woman – pseudonymously known as Jane Roe – but two: Norma McCorvey, the real Jane Roe, and the daughter she gave birth to while her abortion rights case was working its way to the top of the US legal system.

Journalist Joshua Prager tells ABC RN's Sunday Extra that for most of his life he'd assumed "the woman who won the legal right to have an abortion, had one".

When he learnt that McCorvey gave birth to a daughter – the legal ruling was handed down after she gave birth – who was adopted by another family, he became intrigued by the question of who this person was.