This article is the seventh in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected that the children they had sent away via adoption would return as adults with questions demanding to be answered. However, thousands of adoptees visit Korea each year. Once they rediscover this country, it becomes a turning point in their lives. We should embrace the dialogue with adoptees to discover the path to recovering our collective humanity. ? ED.

By Lee Kyung-eun

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From early 2000, Korea witnessed the permanent return of children it had once sent to the U.S. for adoption. Unlike adoptees visiting on motherland tours, these individuals had been deported by the U.S. after committing petty crimes. Despite having grown up in the U.S., they had never acquired American citizenship and therefore were regarded as foreign criminals since their Korean nationality remained intact.

These cases have had tragic consequences. In 2011, Philip Clay, born Kim Sang-pil in the 1970s, suffered such a fate. Like the other deportees, his adoption was never finalized, and he failed to acquire U.S. citizenship. After a long struggle to adjust to Korea, he committed suicide in 2017. While Clay had Korean citizenship, his adoption should have guaranteed him U.S. nationality. Adoption is meant to serve as a permanent and secure solution for children deprived of parental care, and becoming a national of the receiving country represents a fundamental basis for achieving such security.

'Adopted' woman, 56, reveals horror at learning her parents illegally BOUGHT her from a Georgia baby trafficker - after spending 13 years searching for answers about her birth mom

Jane Blasio, 56, from Akron, Ohio, was one of the hundreds of babies who were trafficked out of Dr. Thomas J. Hicks's clinic in McCaysville, Georgia

From the 1940s through the 1960s, the small-town doctor sold more than 200 newborns to out-of-state couples, many of which hailed from the Akron area

Blasio was told she was adopted when she was six, but it wasn't until she was a teenager that she the discrepancies on her birth certificate

Her mother, Joan, and father, Jim, were illegally named as her birth parents on the document, which also listed the Hicks Clinic

Jane Blasio went looking for her biological parents and uncovered a shocking scandal — she was one of hundreds of infants illegally sold in the 1950s and 1960s from a clinic in Georgia

Six-year-old Jane Blasio was playing in her backyard one afternoon when her life was upended. Her father, Jim, asked her to come indoors because he wanted to tell her something.

The Akron, Ohio resident ran inside to find Jim puffing on a cigarette.

"We have something to tell you and it may be hard for you to understand," he said to Blasio and her sister Michelle, 11, who sat at the kitchen table.

As he fumbled for his words, Joan, the girls' mother, announced, "You two were adopted. Do you know what that means?"

ZEVENAAR - Sam van den Haak from Zevenaar, born in Sri Lanka, is suing the Dutch state. She was adopted in 1984, under false pretenses. “When I saw my adoption file, I was in shock.”

Together with twenty other adopted children, Van den Haak will send a letter to the Dutch state this week. Their adoption papers are forged, that is the conclusion of the Joustra Committee. The adoptions have caused them a lot of damage and they want to be compensated for that.

The date of birth in her passport is certainly not the day she was born, Sam learned from her Sri Lankan grandmother. To top it off, the date of birth in her passport is not the same one listed in her adoption file. "I feel sold and bought", says Sam.

She is working on a book about her life. Not born on my birthday, is the working title. "I think it is important that my story is told," says Sam She will be 40 in December of this year. Although, according to her passport, she celebrated her birthday earlier this month. "Future adoptive parents should learn from the mistakes made in the past. And I want my real date of birth in my passport."

How is it possible that these people passed the screening for adoption?

Bombay High Court

Janani Ashish Charitable Trust vs Frederic Christian ... on 8 July, 2021

Bench: D. S. Naidu

4. FAP No. 17 of 2021

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

Some maternity wards in Turkmenistan secretly offer abandoned babies for illegal adoption to prospective parents willing to pay a bribe to skip the normal bureaucracy and long wait that goes with the process, several sources tell RFE/RL.

The illegal deal often involves employees from registry offices who provide the new parents with false birth certificates that show them as the biological parents, the sources claim.

People with knowledge of the deals blame rampant corruption in the agencies involved in the legal adoption process for pushing some parents to a "cheaper and faster" option.

RFE/RL spoke to a married couple who admitted illegally adopting a baby in 2020 after paying about $4,300 in bribes. The couple, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they initially tried for three years to adopt a child legally, but without success.

Like many other countries, Turkmenistan requires prospective parents to provide documents from various agencies to ensure their suitability to adopt a child. The couple said they diligently assembled the necessary documents and submitted them, but each official involved in the process demanded bribes and deliberately delayed the process, the husband said.

Key policy documents

Australia’s key policies and documents for prospective adoptive parents and approved applicants are available below.

For information on the intercountry adoption process, including eligibility criteria, immigration requirements and post-adoption support, visit the Intercountry Adoption Australia website.

Protocol for Responding to Allegations of Illicit or Illegal Practices in Intercountry Adoption

The Protocol provides information and assistance to adoptees and adoptive families in circumstances where there have are allegations or concerns about illicit or illegal practices, including:

Raj HC | Is Juvenile Justice Act totally foreign to the concept of “right of hearing” given to the complainant/CICL in bail applications? Court examines

Rajasthan High Court: Sandeep Mehta, J., allowed the revision application, granted bail and set aside the impugned orders.

The facts of the case are such that the petitioner has a child ‘X’ son who is a young boy of less than 16 years in conflict with law and been confined for the offences under Sections 341 and 395 of the IPC and is lodged at the Child Observation Home, Dungarpur. The bail application was preferred on his behalf by his natural guardian (father) Laxman under Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice Act was rejected by the Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board, Dungarpur which was challenged by an appeal under Section 101 of the Juvenile Justice Act which was also rejected. Assailing these two orders instant revision application was preferred under Section 397 of the CrPC read with Section 102 of the Juvenile Justice Act through his natural guardian.

Counsel for the State submitted that the revision cannot be decided in absence of a notice to the complainant respondent 2 Mani Lal.

Sections 12, 101 and 102 of the Juvenile Justice Act are the provisions dealing with the prayer for bail made on behalf of the CICL at different stages

There are structural problems in youth protection that politics in The Hague cannot solve. Erroneous estimates by aid workers have enormous consequences in this region, according to files and conversations with those involved.

For four years, a 50-year-old mother from Neder-Betuwe fought against the placement of her two children, teenage sons. They are now back. 'The goals have been achieved', was the message of the last youth protector when her sons came back to live at home.

It caused great surprise to the mother and her lawyer, who fought against the custodial placement for years. Because in fact there was nothing different in the situation with the mother than when the children were removed from the home. "And now the children are traumatized by youth care," says the mother.

The family experienced first-hand how great the problems are in youth protection. In the file that ensured that the children were out of the house for a long time, it was stated, among other things, that the woman is mentally retarded, says Monique Gerson, the mother's lawyer at the time. ,,That is not true. Very strange that it ended up in the files, without it ever really being investigated.”

Gerson thus points out a problem that is seen by more lawyers. Factual inaccuracies will no longer be corrected. "Once something is in a file, people often fail to do proper research."

Gera ter Meulen, Knowledge Bureau ter Meulen, for Foster Care and Adoption

Wereldkinderen has been a member of EurAdopt for many years, a partnership between European adoption organizations. These organizations try to maintain high ethical standards, exchange information and sometimes collaborate on common problems. Such a common problem is adoption aftercare in the search for origin. However, this aftercare is becoming increasingly difficult, according to an inventory I did for EurAdopt at 24 EurAdopt adoption organizations in 11 countries.

For this inventory, we first checked what it says about aftercare:

According to the Hague Adoption Convention

The Hague Adoption Convention appears to oblige the Central Authorities to promote aftercare; the CAs may delegate aftercare to public or adoption organizations, but they remain accountable. Adoptees must be helped, among other things, to find their roots and be able to access their adoption information.