Amid requests for music and advertisements, the radio announcer announced: “A 15-year-old boy donates a girl for adoption. Whoever is interested, look for Radio Educadora to get the address ”. It was 1988, the same year as the birth of the Federal Constitution, which provided for the adoption process mediated by the government, but it was born disrespected.

The girl announced on the radio was 4 months old, later to be named Vanessa Oliveira Gomes. Now, at the age of 33, she, like thousands of other people, is looking for her biological family. The children illegally adopted from yesterday are now adults who look in the mirror and wonder where they came from, anyway?

On the other hand, mothers are looking for children who were once taken from them. Reports circulating in groups formed by those adopted by the Brazilian - as this practice is popularly known - give the dimension of the drama experienced by countless people. Because of the way in which the proceedings took place, and still take place, outside the law, it is not possible to officially estimate how many cases like this exist in Brazil.

For seven months, Metrópoles followed searches in three of these groups, one of them, on Facebook, has 1,600 members. These are reports by thousands of people like Sérgio Leonardo, who is also looking for his biological mother. All that is known about her is what the foster mother said: she was a teenager, a black domestic worker, who became pregnant with the son of the white boss and was forced to hand over the baby for clandestine adoption.

The profile of mothers who report having had children stolen, or taken under pressure, is diverse, but statements about poor, black women and domestic workers, most of whom were very young when they gave birth, are repeated.

Woman from Bihar fights mental instability under Magsaysay Awardee's care to realise film director foster father won't let go of her child; CWC in spot after kid picked up from govt orphanage by fosters against law

The woman's loving but aggressive behaviour around her child was spotted by the police at Borivli station

The woman's loving but aggressive behaviour around her child was spotted by the police at Borivli station

A toddler has become the centre of a custody feud between his biological mother, recovering from mental illness, wanting him back and his influential foster family, who took him back after being ordered to give him up. While doctors treating the mother are worried that she will slip into depression without the child, the foster parent, a well-known Bollywood director, after taking good care of the child, has become emotionally invested. But what is in the child's best interest? These questions and the possibility of a court case are looming before the two parties and related stakeholders.

The first five years of a child’s life are the most crucial in terms of development and should preferably be spent with biological parents, especially the mother. Representation pic

Parents who are willing to adopt these four kids with special needs can visit India only after the restrictions on international flights are lifted after December 31

Amid the COVID-19 situation, four orphans including three with special needs and another differently-abled between child aged between one-three years have found their foster parents abroad.

While three couples who have shown interest in adoption are from the US, one is from Italy. They have come forward to adopt after getting the Medical Examination Report (MER) and Child Study Report (CSR). The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) that comes under the Ministry of Women & Child Development has been working as a platform for the adoption centres and those who are keen on adopting children.

The Daya Kiran Adoption Centre at Bhaktharahalli near Kunigal has about 20 such children aged between four months to three years. "We are processing the passport for four children and those willing to adopt will visit only after the restrictions on international flights are lifted after December 31. At a time when people don't show interest in adopting healthy children, these couples from abroad have shown their interest to adopt children with special needs. It is very kind and a humane gesture," remarked district child protection officer Vasanthi Uppar.

She also informed that the process of adoption would have completed in the month of April and May. However, due to the pandemic, the process of adoption was stopped. It resumed in June following which the process of adoption of a ten-year-old boy and an eleven-year-old girl from 'Bala mandir' is in progress.

ECLI: NL: RBAMS: 2020: 5774

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Court of Amsterdam

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04-11-2020

Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

The operation was carried out at the so-called “baby factory” in the Mowe area of the southwestern Ogun state on Tuesday.

“Acting on a tip-off, our men stormed the illegal maternity home and rescued 10 people, including four kids and six women, four of whom are pregnant,” police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi told AFP news agency.

He said the women told police that the owner hired men to impregnate them and then sell the newborns for profit.

The “factories” are usually small illegal facilities parading as private medical clinics that house pregnant women and offer their babies for sale.

This article by Josephine Aburime discusses local and cross-border adoptions; that the fact that Nigeria is not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (the Hague Convention) which inter alia, prescribes guidelines for international adoptions, is an impediment that must be addressed, since in its absence, we have had to resort to local legislation which are somewhat deficient, and seem to prohibit international adoptions

The Child Rights Act 2003 (“the Act”) is a Federal legislation, providing for the basic rights of a Nigerian child. It also provides for custodial matters such as adoption, foster parenting and guardianship. The Act has been domesticated in some States of the Federation including Lagos State which enacted the Child Rights Law of 2007 (“the Law”). This in itself, has brought some inconsistencies on matters relating to children, and with particular reference, adoption.

Private adoption has been long practiced in Nigeria, whereby a private arrangement between the adopter, usually a relative or kinsman and the parents of the child, a child is adopted.

However, contemporary developments including the menace of child trafficking has impelled the need for proper documentation reflecting adoptions, resulting in adoptions being formalised by the courts upon application of the parties. Embassies and border agencies now insist on the presentation of legal adoption documentation, in order to secure visas for adopted children or accord the adoptive parents, parental recognition over the child. This is particularly pertinent when the adoption is international in nature, referring to adoptions across borders where a national or resident of another country adopts a child from a different country, other than where he/she is resident. That is to say in Nigeria, a foreigner coming to Nigeria to adopt and take the child back with them abroad, or Nigerians resident abroad adopting a child in Nigeria with the intent of taking the child to live with them abroad. The term could also include a foreigner temporarily resident in Nigeria, adopting a Nigerian child.

International Adoption

Nagpur: The crime branch busted a child selling racket and rescued a four-year-old girl, who was going to be sold off for Rs2.5

lakh. Five women and one man were arrested in the daylong action from different places on Saturday.

Prima facie, police feel the racket is part of a bigger illegal surrogacy and adoption racket. The women are hired as surrogate

mothers illegally and deliveries are done clandestinely with the help of doctors at small clinics. More arrests are likely. The

racketeers used Aadhaar card of childless couples to create fake parents of the child in the hospital records.

This article is the first installment in a series about adoptions from Haiti to the U.S., offering perspectives on the process from both countries.

In October, the media spotlight shone on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and her family of seven children during the judicial confirmation process. Among the children, the two adopted from Haiti — Vivian, 16, and John Peter, 13 — received the most scrutiny.

Probes came from news outlets like The New York Times, which reported that the children were adopted in 2004 and 2010, respectively. Since 2010, however, the Haitian government has adopted stricter laws to comply with Hague Convention protocols, making international adoption more difficult.

“In the past, anybody could come and adopt a child easily,” said Erick Pierre-Val, a Delmas, Port-au-Prince pastor who counsels parents on the adoption process. “Now, because of the Convention, [they] try to control the process because they care about human trafficking.”

International adoptions to the United States from the rest of the world declined sharply after 2008, when the U.S. government first adopted Hague standards. Haiti itself tightened its laws in 2014 to comply with the Hague Convention, and the steepest decline in adoptions from Haiti took place in 2015.

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At the beginning of this year, Dilani Butink, who was adopted from Sri Lanka in 1992, filed a lawsuit against the state. Butink's adoption papers are forged. She does not know who her real biological family is. And Butink is not alone. Since the 1970s, more than 40,000 children have been adopted from abroad to the Netherlands .

In three previous broadcasts, Zembla showed that adoption papers were forged on a large scale. Babies were taken from hospitals and there were 'baby farms', where babies were born for adoption. Butink blames the state for not intervening. But she lost. Her case is time-barred according to the court. The court bases its judgment on, among other things, the fact that the actions of the state are not 'culpable'. What's up with that? New research by Zembla shows that the abuses had been known for years at various ministries. Even from the late 1970s onwards.

Zembla investigates: What did the Dutch government do with that information?

'Adoption cheating part 4'

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