A couple have adopted three brothers after their journey to become parents was put on hold due to a devastating diagnosis.

Kate and Adrian, who have asked only to be referred to by their first names, had already adopted two boys aged three and ten months old when they received a call to say their baby brother was also on his way.

It was at the start of the first coronavirus lockdown back in April 2020 when they received the call from the social worker, who asked "are you sitting down?"

The couple, from Liverpool, said they couldn't face the thought of the baby growing up without his brothers, so they welcomed him into their home on September 30 last year.

To adopt the boys, they went through a process called, Foster for adopt, where approved adopters are temporarily approved as foster carers so a baby can move into the adopters’ home.

Legal vagueness and cases of stolen children are all the rage. The idea of ??hanging them completely is even mentioned.

In 2016 and 2017, the ACF, the Belgian international adoption service, recognized some two hundred supervised cases of adoptions decided abroad. Since then, this number has continued to decrease: 75 in 2018, 58 in 2019 and 49 in 2020.

Why ? "The first factor is the increase in the standard of living in the countries of origin of the children, these favor since internal adoption ", explains Christine-Laura Kouassi, spokesperson for the FPS Justice. " There is also the closure of certain channels due to legal uncertainty or the application of the Hague Convention which requires the country to review their organization before intercountry adoption becomes possible again."

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In 2016 and 2017, the Federal Central Authority for adoption in our country recognized about 200 files of framed adoptions from abroad. Since then, that number has only fallen: 75 in 2018, 58 in 2019 and 49 in 2020. That is what La Dernière Heure reports in its Sunday edition.

According to the FPS Justice, the fact that the standard of living of children in the countries of origin has improved, which benefits internal adoptions. Certain channels have also been closed due to legal uncertainty, and the Hague Convention has forced some countries to review their organization before international adoption becomes possible again.

Thailand

Of the so-called framed files, which are supervised by recognized Belgian adoption services or the central authorities of the Communities, Thailand (12 adoptions in 2020, against 27 in 2016) was the main country of origin of the children. South Africa, Colombia, Burkina Faso and Togo are also well represented in the statistics.

Unframed international adoptions recognized by the Central Authority also declined in number. In 2016 there were still 34, in 2020 only 20. In this category there are more Western countries, such as France, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Thiruvananthapuram: Six people, including the parents and sister of

Anupama S Chandran, have moved anticipatory bail applications even

as the family court at Vanchiyoor would deliver its final judgment on the

adoption process of her child.

Anupama's parents PS Jayachandran and Smitha James along with her

Former SFI leader Anupama S Chandran with her husband Ajith protesting in front of the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram, seeking their child back as she alleged that the newborn was taken away from her illegally. Photo: Manoj Chemancheri

Anupama S Chandran was a former worker of the Students' Federation of India, the students arm of the ruling CPM. Yet, she has been forced to hit the streets in protest to get back her child, allegedly taken away from her by her parents three days after his birth and given up for adoption.

"My father says the child was abandoned considering my – his daughter's – future, since I am an unwed mother. His argument is that it was done for my future. My argument is also the same: ain't I fighting for my son," Anupama, who staged a protest in front of the Secretariat with her partner Ajith Kumar asked.

You were a worker of the ruling party's students and youth wings. Still you have to hit the streets against the government machinery?

My father P S Jayachandran is a local leader and a local committee member of the party. The party gave him priority due to his political influence, resulting in me losing the child. I knocked at several doors, but none opened. When I had lost trust in the party, I had no alternative other than hitting the streets.

CPI(M) expresses solidarity with the mother

The State Government on Saturday appeared to scramble to contain the social and political fallout of the so-called ‘forced’ adoption case. It has sought legal opinion to move the court to cancel the child’s adoption and return the infant to its biological mother.

The police would investigate the questionable adoption process and the alleged falsification of the infant’s birth certificate to erase its true identity. They have already brought the child’s grandfather, a CPI(M) leader, under the ambit of its probe.

The compelling account of a young and unmarried mother’s futile search for her child “forcibly taken away from her three days after birth and given up for adoption’ via the Child Welfare Council (CWC) had resonated strongly among the public.

The controversy arguably cast the government in poor light after the woman, an SFI activist and daughter of a party leader, revealed how she and the child’s father, now married to her, was allegedly pushed from pillar to post by “CPI(M) apparatchiks and the police” in the two-year-old distressing quest for their ‘disappeared’ child.

Thiruvananthapuram: Ajith’s first wife Nasiya has come out with an allegation against

Anupama saying she was aware of the adoption of her baby. She told media that she had

seen Anupama signing the adoption document and that she was fully in the know while signing.

Anupama decided to sign it when she knew that Ajith was not going to get a divorce, she said.

Nasiya also alleged that Ajitth's relationship with Anupama was the reason for their

Eric Wardell, an Indigenous man from Canada’s Northwest Territories, was taken from his parents at just three weeks old, in what is known in Canada as the “sixties scoop.” In this first-person story, Wardell explores his identity — what it means to discover who you are, and how your past can shape your future. This story is part of the ‘Turning Points’ series: stories told by Indigenous people from Yellowknife, Canada in partnership with the Global Reporting Centre.

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When I was six, I asked my mom whether I was adopted.

There was no event in particular that convinced me I wasn’t born to my family, I just knew.

Since the trauma of maternal separation is preverbal, my body remembered being ripped away from my birth mother, even if I didn’t yet have language for it.

However, when my mom somehow evaded my question, I decided not to press her for answers.

When I turned 10, I tried again. The intuitive feeling that I wasn’t related to my parents never went away. It only intensified. This time, my mom confirmed that my biological parents had given me up for adoption as a newborn, and they had adopted me to raise me as their own.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WTVM) - Hundreds of children are waiting to be adopted in Alabama’s foster care system.

While the Alabama Department of Human Resources says almost 1,300 foster kids have been adopted since the start of the pandemic, the need for loving homes still exists and new nonprofit in our area agrees.

“Court Appointed Special Advocates of Montgomery County” or CASA is advocating for children in the courtroom.

“So we advocate for children in foster care, the judge appoints us to the case, and we come alongside them, and get to know the kids and be able to advocate for them in court and in other areas of life,” said Charity Alpert, CASA Executive Director.

CASA is just under a year old and will be hosting its first fundraiser this Saturday - a superhero 5k and fun run in downtown Montgomery.