Minister grijpt in bij onderzoek naar gedwongen adoptie: Bossche organisatie FIOM buitenspel gezet

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Naar schatting werden zo'n 15.000 kinderen gedwongen afgestaan tussen 1958 en 1984.

Naar schatting werden zo'n 15.000 kinderen gedwongen afgestaan tussen 1958 en 1984.

Het verhaal van ouders die tegen hun zin hun kind hebben afgestaan en van die kinderen zelf, was niet veilig bij het 'aanmeldpunt' dat voor hen is ingericht. Verslagen zijn niet altijd correct opgesteld en de privacy was niet gewaarborgd, erkent verantwoordelijk minister Sander Dekker.

The stories of parents, children and others involved who have reported to the 'Remote and Adoption Application Point' are not properly stored securely at the Ministry of Security and Justice. There has been a data breach and hundreds of conversation reports will be destroyed.

A report has been made to the Dutch Data Protection Authority. This is evident from answers to parliamentary questions from D66 MP Vera Bergkamp.

“Embarrassing”, says Bergkamp about the course of events. “I really don't understand how a research that is so sensitive can be shaped in such a way. When I read that interview reports are circulating at the ministry - the ministry that is actually responsible for privacy - and that there is a lot of catching up to do now that reports have to be submitted again to people who have been interviewed, I really wonder: how could this going so carelessly? ”

The Verwey-Jonker Institute is currently conducting research into distance and adoption between 1956 and 1984. During that period, thousands of women gave up their children, often under great pressure. Some say they have been forced now, decades later. The Remote and Adoption Application Point was opened at the start of the investigation, to give everyone the opportunity to tell their story. More than 670 people have now called that registration point.

The answers to parliamentary questions show that the reports of the conversations held at the hotline were not only sent - anonymously - to the researchers at the Verwey-Jonker Institute, but also to the ministry. That is now going to destroy all records. It is not clear whether those documents are still with the Verwey-Jonker Institute (VJI). In his answers, Minister Sander Dekker writes: “Until now, VJI only keeps the interview reports of those applicants who have been selected for an in-depth interview. From now on, the VJI will keep all interview reports of the registrations and the reports of the in-depth interviews in a secure manner until the completion of the investigation. ”

The apex adoption body CARA has extended the timelines for in-country adoption process due to the prevailing situation of COVID-19

In a letter dated May 29 addressed to all state adoption resource agencies, district child protection units and specialised adoption agencies, the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) said in the wake of the pandemic and the prevailing travel restrictions in India, it has been decided to further extend the period of child matching with prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) till June 30

"Further, the timeline for filing of the petition in court for adoption cases, where the matching process has been completed, has also been extended up to June 30 or till the date the Registry of the Courts open, whichever is later," the letter said. The referral of children to the PAPs have also been suspended till further orders, the letter said.

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Back in 1991, when China passed its first stand-alone adoption law, state-run orphanages routinely gave foundlings the surnames “Dang” (meaning Party) or “Guo” (meaning Country). These unusual names marked children for life and were meant to. That way foundlings would not forget what they owed the Communist Party. Such names were banned in all orphanages only in 2012.

It is a mark of how China has changed that its first-ever Civil Code, a fat volume of laws covering everything from marriage to property rights, approved on May 28th, revises adoption rules to make it easier for children to be raised in private homes. A big change eliminates the rule that—except in special cases, for instance involving adoptions of disabled children from orphanages—only childless Chinese may adopt. From next year, the childless will be allowed to adopt two children, whereas parents with one biological child may adopt another. Those changes reflect a broader easing of laws that, from 1980 to 2016, restricted most urban families to a single child. A further amendment raises the maximum age for being adopted from 14 to 18.

A Queensland coroner's recommendation that adoption be "routinely and genuinely" considered for children in out-of-home care has been met with scepticism by some child protection advocates, who describe adoption as a "drastic" move.

Key points:

The deputy state coroner recommended the child safety department ensure adoption is routinely considered

Some child protection advocates say adoption is only suitable for a very small number of children

The State Government is considering all the deputy coroner's recommendations

Hundreds of published studies over the last decade have claimed it's possible to predict an individual’s patterns of thoughts and feelings by scanning their brain in an MRI machine as they perform some mental tasks.

But a new analysis by some of the researchers who have done the most work in this area finds that those measurements are highly suspect when it comes to drawing conclusions about any individual person’s brain.

Watching the brain through a functional MRI machine (fMRI) is still great for finding the general brain structures involved in a given task across a group of people, said Ahmad Hariri, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University who led the reanalysis.

“Scanning 50 people is going to accurately reveal what parts of the brain, on average, are more active during a mental task, like counting or remembering names,” Hariri said

Functional MRI measures blood flow as a proxy for brain activity. It shows where blood is being sent in the brain, presumably because neurons in that area are more active during a mental task.

“It was always my goal to be able to have a boy,” wrote Dennis S. in a chat. “Pictures don't replace a boy.” The 38-year-old from Berlin-Hellersdorf had his child carried by a surrogate mother in Cyprus. Now he faces long imprisonment. Because the prosecution assumes that the “acquisition” of a child should specifically serve to “act out the pedophile inclination ”.

Dennis S. stared at the floor as the defense attorney supplemented his testimony in the district court on Tuesday. There was talk of a great "desire for children", for which the homosexual man had sought a way to fulfill. Since surrogacy is forbidden in Germany, he went abroad.

After the birth in August 2016, there was a court hearing in Cyprus. "The surrogate mother waived custody," said the defense attorney. What he paid and where he got the money from remained open.

The Father's Outrageous Motive: Child Abuse. Dennis S. filmed sexual assault on Finn (name changed). 16 cases from June to October 2019 are charged. The boy is two years old when he first acts.

How could Dennis S., a bachelor, bring the boy to Berlin? "Tricky", they say. An employee of the Marzahn-Hellersdorf youth welfare office said that S. had reported about a woman. You left him for another partner in Russia. He was given the choice - "Abortion or I'll take the child". With valid papers, he traveled to Berlin with the baby in October 2016.

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Even before she was married, Kavita Baluni Kaktwan knew she wanted to be a mother to a baby girl. But this child would not be a biological one. She wanted to adopt and give her a home and all the joy in the world.

When four-year-old Veda Baluni Kaktwan’s parents got married in 2012, little did they know that she would change their lives, and make them “the happiest parents in the world”. In 2017, when she entered their lives at 16 months of age, Veda made them the first Indian couple to have adopted a baby with Down syndrome. Three years later, as the family celebrates the adoption anniversary on May 30, Kavita talks to indianexpress.com about the journey.

“Adoption was a dream of mine, ever since I was a teenager. I was not interested in having a biological child. This is something I had told my husband before marriage. He was always a feminist, and I knew it when I met him through an arranged marriage setup that we are not going to be an ordinary couple and there is a reason that we have met. When I told him of my plans, he asked for three days to process it. And then he said there is absolutely nothing wrong with the plan; he was game. He said when we do adopt a child in the future, it was going to be a baby girl,” recalls the Ghaziabad resident.

YouTube mom Myka Stauffer had adopted a Chinese child in 2017, just to give him back because he was autistic. Naturally, she was at the receiving end of overwhelming hatred, with many claiming that the entire adoption process was just an act of monetisation as the couple did make a lot of money post adoption. And then there is a couple in India who adopted a 16-month-old child with Down Syndrome.

Kavita and her husband Himanshu adopted Veda in 2017 and three years later, the couple celebrated their adoption anniversary on 30 May. Kavita shared how she was always interested in adopting a child and was never interested in having a biological child. She has confided in her husband about this wish before they got married and he was on the same page and didn’t want them to be an ordinary couple. They had decided beforehand that they would adopt a baby girl.

One would wonder what made them adopt a child with special needs, to which Kavita shared that it was on their trip to the US, they made up their mind. They learned about kids with Down Syndrome and decided that they wanted to fight the stigma attached to special needs and stability. “We wanted to provide an environment, a home and cater to their physical and mental needs.”

They adopted Veda when they were already married for over 5 years. The family was upset over their decision to not have biological children and felt uncomfortable whenever they broached on the topic of adoption. “Our family was not happy when we adopted a child with special needs but we had made up our minds by then. We knew we had to do it for Veda, if not for ourselves.”

The couple did not send Veda to school and have been homeschooling her. They exclusively told a leading website, “We do not believe in formal education. We feel every child is different and has a different learning curve. Their pace is different, too. We let Veda decide what she wants to do. My day starts with having breakfast and doing activities with her. She loves watering plants and painting. We also involve speech and occupational therapy while she does her activities. We go up and down the stairs to strengthen her muscles, and this is pretty much our daily routine.”