Taipei, March 13 (CNA) The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Wednesday said it had ordered a child welfare foundation to temporarily stop accepting new adoption cases after a 1-year-old boy it placed in foster care died after allegedly being abused by his caregiver.

In addition to halting new adoptions, the existing adoption cases being handled by the organization, the Child Welfare League Foundation (CWLF), will also be subject to increased supervision by local governments, the ministry said.

Speaking at a press conference, Deputy Health Minister Lee Li-feng (李麗芬) said her ministry was planning to meet Friday with a group of experts, the Taipei and New Taipei city governments, and the CWLF, which will submit a review report on the incident.

A decision will be made at a later date whether or not to allow the group to resume taking new adoption cases, Lee said.

Including the CWLF, there are currently eight organizations in Taiwan involved in facilitating adoptions. Nationwide, 468 children are awaiting adoption, including around 200 aged three and under, Lee said.

Many adopted children, youth and adults need help now!

Children, young people over 18 and adult adoptees have so far been able to get help via the PAS scheme at the Appeals Board. 

In recent months, the demand for PAS courses has been enormous. In 2023, over 600 PAS courses were completed, and the demand this year is still increasing, which can be attributed to the much mention of the adoption area in recent times.

Everyone agrees that it is very important that we support the adopted at a time when their identity is being questioned. Therefore, it also comes as a very big surprise to us that they do not have control over the funding for this very important PAS work.

No adoptee should be left alone and without the possibility of help.

The Mandate Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Women Affairs Secretariat, Mrs Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi,  disclosed recently, that  the FCT Administration had sealed off an orphanage in Karonmajigi, the Priesthood Orphanage, after 23 children, aged 1 – 14 years, allegedly trafficked from Plateau state were supposedly rescued from the orphanage.

She also added that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, had authorised the Secretariat to profile and recertify orphanages operating within the nation’s capital.

But, this case is not an isolated one as issues of orphan abuses in orphanage homes have become a recurring decimal in the nation’s polity.

Before this development, we recall that in 2017, the FCTA had  also clamped down on illegal orphanages operating in the city over alleged negligence and other nefarious acts.

The Mandate Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Women Affairs Secretariat, Mrs Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi,  disclosed recently, that  the FCT Administration had sealed off an orphanage in Karonmajigi, the Priesthood Orphanage, after 23 children, aged 1 – 14 years, allegedly trafficked from Plateau state were supposedly rescued from the orphanage.

She also added that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, had authorised the Secretariat to profile and recertify orphanages operating within the nation’s capital.

But, this case is not an isolated one as issues of orphan abuses in orphanage homes have become a recurring decimal in the nation’s polity.

Before this development, we recall that in 2017, the FCTA had  also clamped down on illegal orphanages operating in the city over alleged negligence and other nefarious acts.

A surrogate mother who's currently in a dilemma has taken to social media to seek advice from netizens 

The lady revealed how she carried a baby for a rich couple who unexpectedly divorced and refused to take the baby at the time 

In a chat with a doctor, Amicable Chukwu, she told Legit.ng that a surrogate mother has no right to ownership of a baby 

A surrogate mother who carried a child for a rich couple has shared her experience one year after the contract. 

The lady identified as @chelsea_lugard on TikTok narrated that the couple had refused to take the baby after she gave birth because they had serious marital issues. 

MARGAO:

The Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (GSCPCR) has called for urgent and decisive action against the troubling rise in illegal adoption and human trafficking in Goa. The commission's plea is directed towards law enforcement agencies, government officials, and the public to unite in combating these illicit activities.

GSCPCR has further urged that there be an immediate formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to thoroughly investigate these cases, bring perpetrators to justice, and prevent future exploitation.

To back their demand, GSCPCR pointed out that in recent years, they have identified multiple cases that reveal a disturbing pattern of illegal adoptions and potential connections to human trafficking networks.

According to her passport she is 51 years old. The question is whether that is correct. So little is known about the background of Kim ten Hagen, who was adopted from South Korea in 1975. A 'media offensive' must change that.

AONLY A FEW MINUTES AFTER I enter the door, Louise Stenstrup shows me into the bright children's room in the apartment in the middle of Copenhagen. Or, it is probably more accurate to say the room that might become a children's room. It resonates a little when we talk, because right now there is only a light blue chest of drawers and on top of it a framed picture of a four-year-old boy with a nice smile and a gray sweatshirt.

" He is the one I am matched with," she says.

Louise knows from a thick case file that the boy in the picture loves watermelon and doesn't like scary movies, and that he is caring towards small children. And that he lives in an orphanage in South Africa, where he was born out of wedlock to a woman who gave him up at birth. Louise also knows that the biological mother later confirmed at the court in South Africa that she does not want him.

Since August 30, 2023, 43-year-old Louise Stenstrup has known that she and the four-year-old boy had been matched, as it is called, and that she was to be his mother. He was supposed to be her son. She has seen videos of him and feels a strong bond with him already. “ It was overwhelming to see him for the first time. I think you can compare it to when you see the scan image for the first time. And here you could really form an impression of who he is. Is he happy? Now I have tried both things, both seeing a scan image and then this. After all, it's a completely different idea when you don't just see a fetus, but a very small human being.”

Since August last year, she has been waiting for the South African authorities to issue a release certificate for her son, a so-called section 17c, so that she can travel to South Africa and meet him and, after a month there, take him to Denmark. Now she has no idea if that will ever happen. " It is extremely difficult that you suddenly do not know whether the ideas you have had will become real. It is the same fear that you have as a pregnant woman, that you will lose the child, which I think most people who have been through it can nod in recognition of.”

What you need to know:

• Justice John Eudes Keitirima of the Family Division in Makindye said the official fees for filing an adoption case in the court is Shs6,000 but many people engage lawyers to help them in the entire process.

What you need to know:

• Justice John Eudes Keitirima of the Family Division in Makindye said the official fees for filing an adoption case in the court is Shs6,000 but many people engage lawyers to help them in the entire process.

Child rights activists and adoptive parents have asked the government to put up an adoption centre for children.

The revelation was made yesterday during an adoption awareness conference in Kampala under the theme “Bringing hope to a generation through adoption’’.
Adoption refers to the action of legally taking another person’s child and bringing him or her up as one’s own.