For years, Ling Dong didn’t want to find his parents. In 1999, he was abducted from Shanghai while his grandmother wasn’t paying attention. At the age of four, he was taken across the country to the southwestern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Like thousands of other Chinese children, he had been trafficked to be sold to childless — or sonless — couples.

But growing up, Ling was told his biological parents had abandoned and sold him. He developed a hatred for them. In recent years, as child abductions have become rare in China, the country’s thousands of victims are trying to find their biological roots aided by a national DNA database. But Ling didn’t feel a need to start searching until, in 2019, his curiosity got the better of him.

The following is his account, which he shared on the condition of using a pseudonym:

I was abducted in the fall of 1999. I only remember being taken to Guangxi by a man, first by train, then by boat, and in the end being carried into the mountains on his back. He used a large leaf to scoop mountain water for me to drink. When I cried, he played hide-and-seek with me and warned that the police would arrest me if I didn’t quiet down.

I arrived at a remote place, where “mom and dad” were waiting for me. There were small rivers, mountains, trees, and chickens and ducks. My original home did not have these things, so I was both scared and curious.

Madurai: Taking into account that there was no column in the application form to declare whether a child is natural or adopted,

Madras high court quashed the letter issued by Madurai regional passport officer summoning a man for inquiry on the ground

that he had suppressed the fact that his daughter was adopted while applying for passport for her earlier. The court also

directed the authorities to process the petitioner’s application and re-issue passport to his daughter.

The petitioner and his wife had adopted a girl child through the child welfare committee in 2015 by following the procedures

Christian Couple Wrongly Adopts Under Hindu Adoption Act; Delhi High Court Declares Them 'Adoptive Parents' As They Took Good Care Of Child

The Delhi High Court has given relief to a Christian couple who had looked after a child for six

years from her birth, although they had not followed the legal route for adoption.

The couple, who were childless, had adopted the child through an adoption deed executed under

the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, despite the fact the said Act is not applicable to

René Hoksbergen, professor of adoption René Hoksbergen saw early on that adopting children from abroad can cause problems.

Decades ago, René Hoksbergen pointed to problems with foreign adoption. This spring, the Committee on International Adoption Investigation concluded that abuses do indeed occur. As a result, all adoption procedures have been halted. There will also be an Expertise Center for identity questions, searches and aftercare.

Professor René Hoksbergen

Hoksbergen , professor emeritus at Utrecht University specializing in adoption, says he is "very happy" with the conclusions of the committee. "But it's forty years too late."

Hoksbergen (80) saw it go wrong. “Of course, in the beginning, around the 1970s, it was beautiful. In distant countries there was war, poverty and we Dutch could help. We bring the children here and give them a lot of love, then it will be all right, was the idea. It was called 'the pink cloud'. There were a lot of idealistic, passionate adoptive parents here, and the ministry was behind it. I also enthusiastically helped to bring children here.”

Adoption Adoptees from China and Taiwan suffer from the idea that they are part of an exemplary minority. “No one has looked into us.”

'No, no cheese cubes,' winks 26-year-old Nikwi Hoogland as she sets down a snack platter with prawn crackers and chocolate. The snacks brought by her guests are displayed on the picnic rug in the living room of her brand new single-family home in Veenendaal. The buffet is a mishmash of food, from sushi to sausage rolls, brownies, wraps and skewers with mozzarella and tomato.

Most praised is the onigiri – rice ball with filling – from Liam Austin. “Look”, demonstrates the 23-year-old from Hoofddorp, “and then you fold it in the seaweed sheet. And then you do like this, and like that, and then put some shimichi powder on it.”

"Oh my God!"

"Wow!"

Julie Foulon claims to have been torn from her family in Ethiopia to find herself at the age of 6 with adoptive parents in La Manche. The child had to keep it a secret that his mother was alive. Shocking testimony of a false orphan who took legal action.

The story of Julie Foulon, 24, is beyond comprehension. Born in Ethiopia, she arrived in France at the age of 6, to be adopted there through the association Les Enfants de Reine de Miséricorde. She and her 4-year-old sister were declared orphans. But she says today that the death of their biological mother was invented!

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It's a real earthquake in the world of adoption. Two young women born in Ethiopia and adopted in France, as well as an adoptive parent, have just lodged a complaint for "breach of trust and fraud" against the association "Les Enfants de la Reine de Miséricorde", based in Coutances (Manche) . They are convinced that members of this association have managed to make certain children adoptable, sometimes by falsifying documents to change their age, sometimes by forging false letters. But above all much more serious: by not mentioning that one, or even both of these children's biological parents, was still alive! In any case, this is the conviction of Julie Foulon, herself adopted at the age of 6, and author of the autobiographical book "Sara and Tsega", which has, it seems,

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Medical watchdogs have admitted no records exist to trace women given a cancer-causing drug that places future generations at risk.

A synthetic hormone, ­developed to mimic oestrogen, was given to young mothers to dry up their breast milk after their babies were taken for adoption.

But Diethylstilbestrol – known as DES and Stilbestrol, Stilboestrol and Desplex in the UK – has been linked to a number of breast and vaginal cancers, gynaecological abnormalities and infertility in the children and grandchildren of women given the pills.

And the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recommends those exposed to the drug have annual colposcopic examinations in specialist centres.

But now medical ­authorities admit there is no way of tracking down women given the drug, or their children.

“Little is known about the course of a long-term foster placement,” says project leader Mieke Spek. Time to investigate long-term foster care as an alternative to adoption. That is why the research project 'Distance in Connection' has been started.

What if you are unintentionally pregnant and cannot take care of the child? "There is still a taboo in the Netherlands about giving up a child," says Mieke, researcher at the HAN Research Group Active Factors in Youth and Parenting Aid. In recent years, more attention has been paid to so-called distance mothers, mothers who had to give their child up for adoption. Their experiences and suffering went unacknowledged for many years. But adoption isn't the only option for unintentionally pregnant women. A long-term foster placement is also a possibility. There is not much knowledge about long-term foster care in that situation and the experience of (foster) parents and children with this. Mieke: "We also want to let these women and children have their say. Give them a voice. We have little insight into how this form of foster care works, so it's time to investigate this with the research project 'Distance in Connection'."

THE REASON: RECOMMENDATION

Every year, about 60 unintentionally pregnant women consider giving up their child. Of these, a small proportion are considering long-term foster care. This was also apparent from an earlier study ' Mother in one fell swoop, and again not ' by Radboud University in collaboration with Fiom about distance for adoption between 1998 and 2007. Among the 200 distance files there were already dozens of files of women who had been placed in foster care. passed over. This research resulted in the recommendation to map out the opportunities and bottlenecks when choosing a foster family. “In practice, we notice that there is only limited knowledge about the option of foster care after an unintended pregnancy,” says Sophie Bolt, researcher at Fiom. Fiom is one of the agencies that guides women with an intention to give up for adoption. Mieke adds: “With more knowledge and insights, even better information can be provided to unintentionally pregnant women.”

MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT FOSTER CARE

Intercountry Adoption and Suicide in Australia provides a comprehensive review of the available literature on intercountry adoption and suicide, with specific reference to the Australian context.

The report examines the literature to better understand how suicide and suicide ideation impacts Australian intercountry adoptees. Key findings of the report include:

Suicidal behaviours in intercountry adoptees are a complex interplay of vulnerability and resilience, internal, historical and systemic factors.

The body of literature on intercountry adoptees and suicide is small, with the majority of studies conducted internationally.

Raising community and professional awareness is indicated as a key activity that would improve suicide risk detection and response.