Een paar weken geleden zat ik begin van de avond thuis op de bank, lekker lazy een beetje door mijn nieuwsoverzicht van Facebook te scrollen.

De meeste statusupdates van vrienden gingen, zoals gewoonlijk over vakanties, etentjes, sportprestaties of nieuwe liefdes.

Een dag zoals alle andere dus.

Ik was maar half met mijn gedachten bij de Facebookberichten en zat eigenlijk vooral te bedenken of ik een goede smoes kon bedenken om vanavond de Pilates-les over te slaan.

Zodat ik lekker thuis op de bank kon blijven zitten. Netflix in combinatie met Tony Chocolonely, sprak me een stuk meer aan dan mezelf afmatten in de sportschool.

What you need to know:

Due to their alleged involvement in an international adoption scam involving more than 30 children, the United States government levied financial sanctions and travel restrictions on two judges and two lawyers from Uganda in August 2020. According to the US State Department, Judges Moses Mukiibi and Wilson Musalu Musene, as well as attorneys Dorah Mirembe and Patrick Ecobu, helped organise a network that coordinated adoptions of Ugandan children.

The American government made these accusations and imposed penalties a few years ago. Why are you speaking right now?

I am a retired judge. Being outside judicial service, I do not enjoy automatic departmental public relations protection. I have been forced to break silence to dispel some lies peddled by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the US Department of State. On August 17, 2020, those two offices published notes intended to explain and provide justification for the action of the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (Justin G. Muzinich).

He said, and I quote: “Deceiving innocent Ugandan families into giving up their children for suffering. This corrupt scam deliberately exploited the good faith of Ugandans.” It was also stated that unsuspecting or unwitting prospective parents would arrive in Uganda to adopt to take the children back to America.

After her adoption at the age of 2.5, Sam (40, but according to the law 41 years old) ended up in an unsafe family situation in the Netherlands. She was abused by her adoptive father and felt little warmth with her adoptive mother. She also found out that her adoption papers had been tampered with. 'I was just sold.'

Second choice

“I don't remember much of my first two years of life. I was born in Sri Lanka in 1981 and was adopted in 1984 by my Dutch adoptive parents. According to them, my biological mother had given me up because she could no longer take care of me. My adoptive parents also told me that they would actually adopt another girl from Indonesia,” says Sam in Grazia's Winterboek . “They had everything ready for her and suddenly that adoption was cancelled. Finally they came to me. To me, that always felt like I was second choice. And to be honest, I've never really felt comfortable at home.”

“Even at school I didn't feel at home. Because I got all the clothes from my adoptive brothers and my adoptive mother cut my hair short, I looked like a boy. I was bullied a lot about that. Meanwhile, I was abused by my adoptive father from the age of six. This developed very gradually.”

biological family

Dutch nun (89) accused of baby robbery: she told mothers that their child was stillborn.

CHILI

An 89-year-old Dutch nun is accused of baby theft and illegal adoption from Chile. In the 1970s and 1980s, she would have taken children without permission from the mothers for adoption in the Netherlands. Some Chilean adoptees and mothers have filed a report in recent years.

September 1979. An underage mother is admitted to the hospital in Paillaco, southern Chile, with her newborn son. She gave birth at home but lost a lot of blood. When the mother wants to breastfeed the next day, a Dutch nun and a Chilean social worker tell her that her baby has died. She can't see him anymore, his little body is already gone.

The 'deceased' baby ? Alejandro Quezada ? is, in fact, very much alive. He is now 43 years old and lives near Amsterdam. “My mother hated that she wasn't even allowed to take me to say goodbye. Because she started screaming, they drugged her. She came to three days later."

Patna (Bihar) [India], December 2 (ANI): ‘There are angels in human shape’ — so goes the phrase on the lips of everyone who received the heartwarming news about Arjit, an orphan boy from Patna.

Raised on Patna’s streets, the eight-year-old is all set board a transcontinental flight to the United States to shart a new chapter of his life.

The specially-abled orphan was found abandoned on the streets amid biting cold in Patna’s Bihta, three years ago. However, the boy is about to turn a corner in his young life as he has been adopted by a doctor couple in the US.

It is understood that the couple will fly down to Patna and head back with an adopted son, having already completed all the necessary paperwork.

According to sources, the couple will fund his medical treatment in the US.

Bihar News: The couple from Washington in the US was on a tour of India when they came across 3-year-old Arjit from Danapur in Bihar. The couple completed the documentation process for adopting the child on Thursday.

Danapur (Bihar): A 3-year-old differently-abled boy, who was abandoned by his parents on a road during a chilling winter night three years ago, was adopted by a doctor couple from the United States recently.

The couple from Washington in the US was on a tour of India when they came across Arjit from Danapur in Bihar. The couple completed the documentation process for adopting the child on Thursday.

On Thursday, Danapur SDO Pradeep Kumar handed over the Arjit to the couple after verifying all the details and other legal proceedings.

Meanwhile, the American couple- Dr. Carlin Roy Miller and her husband Kathleen Shublian- has applied for Arjit’s passport to take him to his new home in Washington. The couple already has three children, including two sons and a daughter.

This article presents a critical reading of Norwegian and Danish contemporary forced adoption policy as biopolitical regulation of reproduction and kinship in the Nordic welfare state. The analysis investigates how contemporary forced adoption policy has been shaped through legislative amendments from the early 2000s to the present and discusses central rationales behind the policy of forced adoption. Over the period, two amendments to the Danish and Norwegian laws were decisive for how forced adoption is practiced and lead to significant increases in forced adoptions per year. The 2009 amendment in Norway, relied on a rationale of safety and stability, which positions forced adoption as the scientifically optimal choice for the child underpinned by ideals derived from development and attachment psychology. The 2015 amendment to Danish law relied on the rationale of exception, asserting the indisputable necessity of forced adoption. Additionally, it built on the rationale of probability to make live of a future in which the child belongs to the adoptive family while first kinship is terminated.Introduction

In her 2020 New Year’s speech, Danish social democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen articulated her ambition to “give more vulnerable children a new home”Footnote1 by increasing the number of children placed in care through removal or forced adoption (Regeringen, Citation2020). The political commitment to promote forced adoption as a social services intervention subsequently found legislative expression in the 2021 “Children First” (Børnene Først) reform, which extended forced adoption rules to apply as early as before the child’s birth. The reform was enacted into law in 2023 (Barnets Lov, Citation2023; Regeringen, Citation2021). Concurrently, successive amendments to Danish forced adoption laws have facilitated a rise in the number of forced adoptions from 9 cases per year in 2018 to 37 cases in 2022 (Ankestyrelsen, Citation2023).

Forced adoption is one of the welfare state’s most extensive interventions as all juridical ties between the child and the first family are ended making the adoptive parents the child’s only juridical parents. Norway and Denmark are the only Nordic states that practice forced adoption, sharing highly similar policies. While Denmark is still in the process of establishing its forced adoption practice, Norway has had a more consolidated practice with about 60 forced adoptions per year in the period 2014–2018 (Bufdir, Citation2022). The higher number of cases in Norway has resulted in several convictions in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for violating Article 8 on the right to family life, and in the case of Abdi Ibrahim v. Norway, likewise to allegations of violating Article 9 concerning freedom of thought, belief and religion (Faye Jacobsen & Hjaltason, Citation2021). Consequently, Norway has adjusted its forced adoption practice to require “weighty reasons” (tungtveiende grunner) (Vedtak til lov om barnevern, Citation2021), leading to a drastic decrease in the number of forced adoptions per year with just 7 cases documented in 2022 (Bufdir, Citation2023).

In the present article, I analyse contemporary forced adoption in Norway and Denmark as biopolitical regulation of reproduction and kinship. First, I situate forced adoption policy within the context of the Nordic welfare state and review existing research on this policy. Second, I outline my theoretical and methodological approach, which provides the tools to discuss the research questions: How has contemporary forced adoption policy been shaped through legislative revisions? And what are the central rationales behind contemporary forced adoption policy? My analysis draws on an archive of Norwegian and Danish legislative amendments, parliamentary debates and preparations from the early 2000s to the present and I identify two central legislative amendments. Focusing on the two decisive amendments, I analyse the most significant rationales behind contemporary forced adoption policy in Denmark and Norway.

Situating Forced Adoption Policy

CARA organises 200 special Social media campaigns, 10 State Orientation Programmes, and Interactive meets with more than 700 Prospective Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Parents

Celebrates ‘Adoption Awareness Month' in November, 2022

Posted On: 01 DEC 2022 7:48PM by PIB Delhi

As part of the ‘Adoption Awareness Month' , Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) organised 10 State orientation programmes, ran 200 special social media campaigns, held interactive meets with more than 700 Prospective Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Parents in November ,2022. The key features of the new Adoption Regulations, 2022 notified by the Central Government on September 23, 2022 were also shared with them. CARA engaged with the adoption community by offering in-depth knowledge and resources for families.

Adoption Awareness Month was celebrated in the States of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Daman & Diu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, Jackie Young had been searching.

Orphaned as an infant, he spent the first few years of his life in a Nazi internment camp in what is now the Czech Republic. After World War II he was taken to England, adopted and given a new name.

As an adult, he struggled to learn of his origins and his family. He had some scant information about his birth mother, who died in a concentration camp. But about his father? Nothing. Just a blank space on a birth certificate.

That changed earlier this year when genealogists used a DNA sample to help find a name — and some relatives he never knew he had.

Having that answer to a lifelong question has been “amazing,” said Young, now 80 and living in London. It “opened the door that I thought would never get opened.”

The glory of Chhath Maiya.... The separated family met after 43 years: Sheela of Belgium reached Patna to celebrate Diwali-Chhath; Real brothers and sisters met in Muzaffarpur

Five sons, one Dhiwa, Dhiwa Mangwai Zaroor... This song of asking for a daughter in Chhath became true today. For 43 years, by the grace of Chhath Maiya, a daughter was reunited with her family. Late Toofani Paswan's daughter of Chamrua of Mansoorpur in Muzaffarpur was reunited with her family after 43 years. She had come to Patna to celebrate Diwali and Chhath. Amidst the grief of not seeing her parents, Shila of Belgium cried profusely hugging her siblings. In 1981, Sheela, separated from her loved ones, was adopted in Belgium.

He was adopted from the Padri's mansion. Sheela had come to Patna on Diwali. Reached the pastor's mansion and got his information. On that basis, she reached Mansoorpur in Muzaffarpur. She is a teacher in Belgium. Husband Avin is a businessman. Has come to Patna with three children. She had brought her childhood picture.

She was searching after reaching Patna, cried a lot hugging her brothers and sisters

Knowing about Chhath,