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Chinezen zetten zich over hun schaamte heen om op zoek te gaan naar weggegeven dochters

Het pleintje in Shouning waar de Chinese ouders komen zoeken naar hun weggegeven dochters. Beeld Eefje Rammeloo

Chinese ouders durven eindelijk te zoeken naar dochters die ze lang geleden weggaven. Het eenkindbeleid is alweer een paar jaar afgeschaft, dus een boete krijgen ze niet meer. Achter de schaamte die overblijft, schuilt de diepe behoefte te weten hoe het met hun kind gaat.

Eefje Rammeloo2 juli 2020, 10:57

Chinese parents finally dare to look for daughters they gave away long ago. The one-child policy has been abolished for a few years now, so they no longer get a fine. Behind the shame that remains is the deep need to know how their child is doing.

Eefje Rammeloo2 July 2020 , 10:57 AM

Ye Yunfeng has a face full of laughter lines, the face of someone who likes to get up to mischief and can laugh happily. He must be a nice father to his son and daughter. There are two of them, the third was an accident. The laugh lines suddenly disappear. "Had it been a son, I might have fled into the mountains with him." It was the heyday of the one-child policy, and Farmer Ye couldn't pay another fine.

His parents still knew someone who could make the baby disappear. The girl was a few days old when her parents gave her to a crippled man in the morning. “The sun wasn't up yet,” Ye recalls. When he regretted it a few years later, he went after the man, but he turned out to be dead. He would give something to see his now 34-year-old daughter. The great thing is: nobody can fix it anymore, because the one-child policy is history.

A few hundred parents spend their Saturday afternoon on a square in the town of Shouning. They walk restlessly from one side of the square to the other. Maybe their daughter will also register just today. On a table in the semicircular gazebo lie sterile-wrapped cotton swabs and needles. The ladies who manage the table are sure to prick the fingers of the seekers. They drip some blood onto a card that they staple to a form in a brown envelope. Those who cannot write can leave it to them.

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Minister Dekker informs the House of Representatives about the progress of the family law topics of parenthood and adoption and a number of legislative processes.

In May of this year, an additional hearing on intercountry adoption from Ethiopia was held in the Committee for Welfare, Public Health and Family of the Flemish Parliament. This hearing came after the testimony of Thereza De Wannemaeker who questioned her adoption from Ethiopia in 2009. Various testimonials from Ethiopian adopted children and their parents followed, after which Flemish Member of Parliament Lorin Parys (N-VA) asked for an additional hearing in the Flemish Parliament to hear those involved.

During the hearing, the then Flemish Minister of Welfare, Jo Vandeurzen (CD&V), promised to set up an expert panel to conduct in-depth research into past adoptions and formulate policy recommendations. The former Flemish Government compiled this panel in July. Recently, Christof Bex and Miranda N. Aerts, both adopted and well known with the theme, were also added to the panel. This happened after 23 adoptees in an open letter to the current Flemish Minister of Welfare, Wouter Beke (CD&V), criticized the fact that none of the adoptees co-led the investigation. The panel will meet for the first time shortly to define the content and determine a concrete work approach.

Unfortunately, malpractice within adoption remains a reality, despite efforts made worldwide to prevent them. In March 2016, ISS1 published "Responding to Illegal Adoptions: a professional handbook". This international publication was the first attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of possible recovery and prevention measures. Stakeholders and experts from various countries contributed to the handbook and highlighted action points from a legal, psychosocial, social and political context. In summary, David M Smolin² formulated four perspectives and four recommendations at the end of the handbook, which we present below.

Four perspectives for looking at adoption fraud

1. Adoption as controversial and paradoxical