Gadag: ' Handing over a child to a childless couple is a pious act,' said S. Ravi, president of the city's Balavinayak Vidyaniketan Educational Institution

He spoke after handing over an adopted child, who was fostered at the Amulya Special Adoption Center of Seva Bharathi Sanstha in Betageri, to a couple from Kerala. 

"While it is one thing to create a great future for a neglected child by protecting and nurturing it through an adoption agency and legally handing it over to a childless couple, it is also a great act to hand over a child to a childless couple. Let the couple who adopt the child provide this child with good morals, education, and a future," he said. 

Speaking at the event, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's provincial pracharak Narendra said, "The Amulya Adoption Center has dedicated itself to humanity and humanitarian work. The work of the Amulya organization, which has provided its own invaluable service in giving life to 68 children so far, is truly commendable."

The president of the organization, Mallikarjuna Bellada, presided over the function. Mallika was on the stage. Nagaveni Kattimani prayed. Narasimha Kamarthi introduced. Manjunath Channappa gave the introductory speech. Aruna Rajapurohita narrated. Rajesh Khatavate proposed the vote of thanks. 

Koreanische Adoptierte Duetschland e.V. is at Projektraum Spreefeld

Some New Zealanders have adopted more than 10 children from overseas and one woman with previous convictions smuggled children into the country, government briefings have revealed.

Internal intelligence reports and warnings to Labour and National immigration ministers show concerns about the motives of some parents in adopting children from abroad, but being powerless to act.

A Swedish commission recommended last week that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades.

In New Zealand, too, the abuses - and the unchecked pathway for adoptees coming from countries which have not ratified the Hague Convention - have been known about for decades. It has included adoptive parents with previous convictions and children being held as house-slaves or sexually assaulted.

Oranga Tamariki and the Family Court here do not need to be consulted - or even notified - before the children are adopted and arrive in New Zealand, which has also prompted fears the lack of oversight could mean other abuses remain undiscovered.

A woman struggling with severe money problems sold her newborn son for fifty thousand rupees. The woman is originally from a place called Kanti and currently lives in the Kacchi Pakki area. After she spent all the money, she started missing her child badly.

Following this, on Tuesday, she went to the city police station and began telling her story while crying. She told the police officers that a businessman from Jawaharlal Road had taken her baby. Acting on her complaint, the city police immediately went to the location to investigate.

During the inquiry, the businessman explained that he is childless and that the woman had given him the baby willingly. He claimed that he had adopted the child and was taking good care of him.

After the investigation, the newborn baby was returned to his mother. It was learned that the woman had worked as a domestic helper at the same businessman's house for a long time. She already has four other children. About fifteen days ago, she gave birth to the son while at the businessman's home and then handed the baby over to him.

Sharat Kumar, the Station House Officer of Nagar Thana in Muzaffarpur, said, "A woman complained that a businessman had taken her child. Based on this information, the police were sent to the businessman's house. After an investigation, the child was handed over to his biological mother. As of now, no formal complaint has been filed in this matter."

For post-rock modern band Meejah, Seoul always holds a special place. Band leader Mai Soon Young Ovlisen, an adoptee raised in Denmark, first made a stunning debut in Seoul two years ago, performing on Nodeul Island as part of an International Korean Adoptee Association (IKAA) gathering, where hundreds of adoptees come to experience Korea — many for the first time — and to connect with others who share their story. They were also able to share a night of music at Strange Fruit, located near western Seoul’s Hongik University, with award-winning band Wings of the ISANG, and play another show at ACS in downtown Seoul’s Euljiro.

Their latest return to Seoul carries just as much weight, not only because of the band’s packed schedule, but also because of the timing. Their latest work, a 10-movement composition titled "R.E.Q.U.I.E.M. Light and Loss (For the Uncrushable Soul and the Little Ones Sleeping on the Mountainside)," will debut during this visit.

“It doesn’t follow the requiem format exactly, but takes inspiration from it,” Ovlisen explained. “I also see it as a maternal requiem — giving single mothers their rights back and taking away the stigma they’ve faced.”

For Ovlisen, who feels a profound artistic and spiritual connection to her birth country, this piece engages with Korea’s complex historical, political, religious and emotional landscape surrounding orphans, adoptees and single mothers. These themes gained renewed attention this spring when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) confirmed that human rights violations had indeed occurred in the past during international adoptions. Yet, due to time and the sheer volume of cases, hundreds of other submitted testimonies could not be fully investigated, Ovlisen’s case included. She has spotted inconsistencies and errors in her own paperwork.

On Sept. 10 and 11, the Danish Korean Rights Group will hold a conference at the National Assembly to advocate the importance of continuing this investigation, and Ovlisen will be in attendance to show her support.

The Telangana High Court has declined to interfere with the action of the Child Welfare Committee and District Child Protection Unit in taking away the custody of an adopted child residing with the petitioner, holding that the adoption process was illegal. The Division Bench of Justice Moushmi Bhattacharya and Justice Gadi Praveen Kumar has further held that a petition for habeas...
 

Child Protective Services plays a significant role in adoptions. Adoptee Jessica Bijvang (54) is now denouncing that role. "It's a disgrace what happened to me. Nobody cared about me."

Baby Jessica is tien dagen oud als haar moeder haar achterlaat bij de Paula Stichting in Utrecht. Een knap kindje, met een snoezig gezichtje. Het is december 1965, een dag voor Oudejaarsavond, als de 23-jarige jonge vrouw de deur van het tehuis voor ongehuwde moeders achter zich dicht trekt. Haar dochter, denkt ze, zal opgroeien in een liefdevol gezin.

Het is anders gelopen voor de nu 54-jarige Jessica Bijvang. “Ik ben mijn hele leven onzichtbaar geweest”, zegt ze. Voor haar op tafel ligt een dik dossier met brieven van en naar de Kinderbescherming, papieren over haar tijd bij de Paula Stichting en de zoektocht naar haar biologische vader. De schuld en de schaamte over een jeugd in een gewelddadig en disfunctioneel gezin hebben lang op haar gedrukt. Alle ‘vormen van ellende’, zegt ze, is ze doorgegaan tijdens het verwerkingsproces. “Ik heb ontzettend hard gewerkt. Nu kan ik zeggen dat ik een goed leven heb.”

Niet eerder heeft ze willen vertellen hoe haar jeugd eruit zag, wat er gebeurde nadat de Kinderbescherming verantwoordelijk werd voor haar. Weer dat schuldgevoel en de schaamte waarover niet alleen ouders spreken die afstand hebben gedaan, maar ook kinderen die zijn afgestaan. Maar nu is het tijd. “Het is een schande wat er met mij is gebeurd. Niemand heeft zich om mij bekommerd.” Haar biologische moeder maakt ze geen verwijten en ook voor haar pleegouders voelt ze na al die jaren een zekere compassie. Maar de Kinderbescherming had haar moeten beschermen. En die heeft dat niet gedaan.

Kinderen willen staat aanklagen om hun adoptie

In the 1960s, then 22-year-old Trudy Gertsen gave up her son against her will. Today, she holds the State responsible.

The first big blow came in November 1967. Trudy Gertsen (21) was five months pregnant and unmarried. She had completed her nursing training without telling anyone about her pregnancy. If the nuns with whom the women lived during nursing training had known, she would have been kicked out immediately. She has no doubts about that.

Now she's back with her parents, fully expecting to give birth there. After that, she'll look for a job and a home to raise her son. Her boyfriend, the baby's father, turns out to have another girl. So be it, she thinks, I'll do it alone.

But instead, her mother takes her out for a walk and tells her she has to give up the child. Trudy is not welcome in her childhood home.

Trudy Scheele-Gertsen, now 73, falls silent as she recounts that walk, taking a sip of water. "And home was quite a big house. But it wasn't possible. It was impossible." "I've arranged something for you," her mother said on that autumn day, more than fifty years ago. She sent her daughter to the Paula Foundation in Oosterbeek, a home for unwed mothers.

Former nuns Sister Chantal (92) and Sister Angeli (81) worked at the Paulastichting in Oosterbeek, a home for unmarried mothers, in the late 1960s. Many of these mothers gave up their children. Like Ellen van Ree (69), who carried this trauma with her for the rest of her life. Fifty years later, she visits the nuns. How do they look back on what happened in their home?

This article was written byJenda Terpstra and Petra Vissers Published on June 13, 2020, 1:00 AM

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Ellen van Ree was sixteen years old and a "child of her time, with trendy clothes and spiky blond hair" when she became pregnant in 1967. Her parents refused to hear of it and  sent her to the Paula Foundation  in Oosterbeek. There, Ellen was housed, along with about 29 other unmarried girls, waiting to give birth. Half of them gave up their child for adoption. Ellen's parents also refused to let her keep it.

Mother and child belong together was the creed in 1956. But after the introduction of the adoption law, that principle disappeared. How could it be that thousands of women were separated from their children in ten years? 

It's August 1967, and in Oosterbeek, nestled in the green space on Nico Bovenweg, the new building of the Paula Foundation is opened. Here, in the coming years, hundreds of unmarried mothers will give birth, and just as many babies will spend their first months, or even years. The modern, new building is opened by psychiatrist Gribling.

His speech breathes a new era. In the past, he says, the guiding principle was: mother and child belong together. But "you will be aware," he continues, "that this principle has been completely abandoned, especially in the last ten years, for reasons so obvious that we can only wonder about its application now."

The adoption law has been in effect for eleven years, since 1956. That law was inspired by the desire of foster parents to also obtain legal parenthood over their foster children. At the time, this involved small numbers. The motto at the time was: mothers, no matter how disabled, must care for their babies. A principle that now holds true again.

The adoption law seems to have unintentionally created its own dynamic