Shortage of foster families for siblings who want to stay together

There are too few foster families in Flanders that are willing or able to care for children who are closely related. That is what Foster Care Flanders says. In April, a bill was approved in our country, allowing, for example, brothers or sisters to stay together after the divorce of their parents. But it appears that childcare with a foster family is more difficult to organize for children who want to stay together.

Joppe Matyn

Fri 20 Aug 07:16

Pleegzorg Vlaanderen does not have figures about the shortage of foster families who want to take in children who are each other's brother or sister. "But we do see, for example, that in the province of Limburg there are currently six files where no shelter can be found for children who want to stay together," says Jan Brocatus of Pleegzorg Vlaanderen in "The morning" on Radio 1. "And we can. state that the situation is similar in every province.

In this summer column, six people tell us which summer will be etched in their memory forever. This week: Leena de Wilde (33) was seven months old when she flew from her native India to her adoptive family in Groningen. Twenty years later, she visited the children's home where she lived for the first few months for the first time. "If my disability had been discovered then, I would never have been adopted."

You might already know Leena de Wilde (33). At the age of nineteen she took part in the Mis(s) Election, an initiative of former presenter and CDA MP Lucille Werner, for women with a physical disability. Since then, Leena has made her job of posing for the camera and moving from casting to casting. As a result, she regularly appears in commercials, videos and campaigns.

"I want to make a positive contribution to the image of people with disabilities. I've had a wheelchair since I was three, so I've been sitting all my life. I don't know any better. I don't experience many disadvantages, I want to show that " says Leena cheerfully.

When Leena was eighteen months old and had been living with her adoptive parents in Groningen for a little over a year, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy (a posture and movement disorder caused by damage to the brain, ed.). This limitation would be a result of oxygen deficiency at birth.

"I was born on the street in Mumbai, India. As far as I know, my biological mother took me to Bal Anand orphanage shortly after I was born, because she was unmarried and did not have the financial means to take care of me. My parents never I put a lot of emphasis on my physical disability and in my upbringing always looked at what is possible. I took that positive attitude from them."

The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) in a petition filed by a couple, who are Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holders and had registered with CARA for adoption of a child in 2018.

A Single-Judge Bench of Justice Rekha Palli was on Monday hearing a plea to treat the petitioners at par with Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and Resident Indian Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) in

terms of seniority of adoption and direct CARA to refer the child legally free for adoption to them.

According to the plea, the petitioners are OCI card holders and have been residing in India since 2017. They registered with CARA for adoption of a child on March 22, 2018 and their date of seniority was from May 16, 2018, yet they have not received a referral for a child.

The petitioners claimed to know PAPs, who have registered in August, 2018, with the same

The widow of notary Ivan Barbara breaks her silence and denies benefitting from money held in escrow by her late husband or that the funds were used to adopt her daughter from India

The widow of notary Ivan Barbara is denying client funds held in escrow by her late husband were used to adopt their child from India.

Rosanne Barbara Zarb said in a letter sent to the media that she had no involvement or connection with her late husband’s profession.

This is the first time that Barbara Zarb broke her silence after clients of her late husband who had deposited funds on promise of sale agreements were left chasing their money.

Ivan Barbara died earlier this year from COVID-19 in India. He was there, along with his wife, to adopt a child.

This article is the 10th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Among the first wave of transracial adoptees from Korea to the United States, Alice Stephens shares her journey to the truth of the origin of her life. Her story enlightens us to the fact that adoptees' lives are closely intertwined with the political turmoil of Korean's modern history beyond our imagination.

By Alice Stephens

Born in 1967 to a Korean mother and an American soldier father, I was one of the first generation of inter-country adoptees.

Indeed, inter-country adoption began because of mixed-race children like me. We were considered as a blight upon the blood-line, unworthy of being Korean. According to the system of census taking that existed then, in order to be entered into the family registry, the child had to be fathered by a Korean man. Those of us with foreign fathers were unable to be registered, and therefore ineligible for essential government services, such as education and medical care. From the beginning, the bureaucracy conspired to erase us from existence.

Ironically, women like my mother were crucial to Korea's struggling economy, bringing in desperately needed U.S. dollars. Though prostitution was ostensibly illegal, the government not only tolerated but abetted it. U.S. military and Korean local and national government officials coordinated efforts to regulate prostitution and monitor sex workers for sexually transmitted diseases. Both countries saw the sex trade as vital to keeping the massive contingent of U.S. troops in the country, their presence essential to the national economy.

After five frustrating years of mire and bureaucratic delays, Bahaudin Mujtaba and wife Lisa had hoped this year to finally bring the 10-year-old Afghan boy they’re adopting to their home in Florida for a chance at a different future

But with the collapse of the Afghan government, the couple is desperately trying to get the boy, Noman, on a flight out of Kabul -- going anywhere -- before the chance to leave disappears.

In the chaos following the Taliban takeover, Noman and another family tried to get to the airport Tuesday through clogged streets, checkpoints and gunfire but were forced to turn back.

Mujtaba, who spoke to the boy and the family early Tuesday, said they hope to try again to get to the airport Wednesday.

“I have tears in my eyes this morning and my wife has tears in her eyes,” he said. “I couldn’t really say much else other than ‘Go for it’ and ‘Be careful.’”

Ambala, Aug 17 (UNI) A couple from Delhi kidnapped a 2.5-years-old child adopted by another

couple of Patti Rangra Ambala City and took the child with them to Delhi on Monday.

The local parents who adopted the child complained to the police against the original parents of

the child alleging that they entered their house forcibly and started beating them and took the

child in possession.

This piece originally appeared in the now-defunct Gazillion Voices in August 2014 when the writer was in her fifth year of living in Seoul. It has been updated seven years later in August 2021, four-and-a-half years after leaving Seoul, to reflect the passage of time etc.

*The image above is from Holt Heritage Camp at Camp Lane in Oregon 1986. Stacey, Kim, and Tara are seated 4th row up; 2nd, 3rd, 4th in from the left

I carry with me a bundle of letters. A bundle of letters that I have carried with me every place I have lived in this world – from Lake Worth to London to Mittersill to Vilnius to Minneapolis to Seoul to Portland and to every city/country in between. In this bundle, which I always keep in a place so that if there is a fire I can save them, are letters from Tara Bilyeu Footner.

Tara and I met when we were 9 and attending Holt Heritage Camp in Oregon for the first time in the summer of ’86.

We became lifelong pen pals, and I would dare to say, some 36 years later, we are lifelong friends.

Gurgaon: A couple, waiting for years to have a child of their own, has been booked for illegally adopting a two-month-old girl. The mother of the child, a minor from Jharkhand, eloped with a man from her state and handed the girl to the couple from Sector 71, police said.

The illegal adoption came to light when the couple visited the One Stop Centre Sakhi — a unit of the Child Welfare Committee — for a birth certificate of the girl. The officials there found that the couple had bypassed the norms for adoption and merely got an affidavit made through a lawyer that said that the minor girl from Jharkhand was willingly handing over her biological daughter to them.

The CWC has taken custody of the child and sent her to a shelter home in Faridabad. Following a complaint at Badshapur police station, the couple has been booked under section 80 (adoption of child without following established provision) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act. The section carries a maximum punishment of one year in jail.

Tapan Roy, a private firm employee, and his wife Jayashri had been trying for a child ever since they got married four years ago.

Originally from North 24-Parganas in West Bengal, Tapan came in contact with Milan Pramanik, a tea seller in Sector 71. Since

Sarah Labee_ Johanna and Matthias- Veenendaal- series adoption (2)

Johanna had been talking about Colombia ever since she could talk. Sarah was afraid she wouldn't find a family. And Matthias felt less need to go looking for his biological family. Nevertheless, the entire Labee family went on a roots trip in 2016.

Are there any topics that have not yet been discussed that they would like to mention? At the end of the interview, Matthias, Sarah and Johanna Labee look at each other for a moment. “Yes,” says Sarah. “I wish everyone a roots trip, but let it be a well-considered choice. You have no guarantee of a good outcome. The foundation that was looking for our families in Colombia explicitly warns against this. You may want to contact your biological family, but you do not know whether they are open to that.”

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The Colombian flag is on the cupboard under the stairs in the hall of the Labee family in Veenendaal. In the living room, photos recall the roots of Matthias, Sarah and Johanna. It is therefore not surprising that they are interested in news about adoption. But it is certainly not the case that it immediately dominates the conversations at the table, the three of them agree in unison.