Commissie geeft CBS opdracht voor vragenlijstonderzoek interlandelijk geadopteerden

De Commissie Onderzoek Interlandelijke Adoptie in het Verleden heeft het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek opdracht gegeven een groot aantal interlandelijk geadopteerden te vragen naar hun persoonlijke situatie.

Waarom eigenlijk?

Tjibbe Joustra geeft daarop antwoord: “De Commissie vindt het belangrijk om te weten hoe het gaat met geadopteerden die uit andere landen naar Nederland zijn gekomen. Wat is hun levensstijl en wat zijn hun opvattingen? We willen bijvoorbeeld weten hoe ze aankijken tegen hun eigen adoptie. Hoe is of was hun relatie met hun opvoeder? Hoe zijn hun sociale contacten, hoe is het met hun gezondheid? Maar ook: zoeken ze naar hun roots? Of voelen ze zich gediscrimineerd? Dat soort belangrijke, persoonlijke vragen.”

Wie worden er allemaal benaderd?

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An Ethiopian-born New Zealand citizen has been refused permission to adopt her sister's four teenage children and bring them to Wellington for a better life.

The woman was misguided as to what was in the children's best interests, a High Court judge said.

The woman, 39, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, sent money to help support the children whose parents have not been heard from since about 2013.

The children were aged 19, 18, 16 and 15 years. The woman said she would continue to send money for their care.

They wanted to come to New Zealand but also wanted other family members to come too, including the aunt who looked after them since birth.

From: Anke Hassel

Date: Mon 30. Mar 2020 at 19:46

Subject: AW: Diffamierung / Adoption

To: info@againstchildtrafficking.org

PS: Wo steht das denn mit den hohlen Kampagnen? Es steht sehr viel über kriminelle Praktiken auf der webseite und würde wenn überhaupt Menschen dafür sensibilisieren, sich mit den dunklen Seiten von Adoptionen auseinanderzusetzen. Aber das ist ja sowieso vorbei.

The Centre has advised childcare institutions to send back home children in conflict with the law in view of the coronavirus crisis.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, in an advisory dated March 28 said that this directive was in line with a Supreme Court order (writ petition (c) No 1/2020) asking all states to release prisoners on parole or interim bail to reduce overcrowding in jails, and said that a high-powered committee will be formed to implement this.

The NCPCR asked state governments to prepare a list of such children in observation and special homes so that they can be released.

In its advisory, the NCPCR has also asked states to take care of children of migrant workers making their way home.

“Some children may be moving with their families or alone or in group of migrant laborers from other States. In the best interest of the child, such families/children should remain in the same place where they are. In case of families, adequate measures may be taken as deemed appropriate by the competent authority,” the NCPCR said in its advisory.

In 2016, Anjali Gupta and her husband drove 17 hours from the city of Bangalore to Pandharpur in the neighboring state of Maharashtra, to bring home their adopted baby boy. After a yearlong wait, Gupta had been matched with the 8-month-old boy through a digital adoption mechanism India has embraced to hasten and simplify the process for parents like her.

Nothing prepared her for the horrors that followed.

Soon after taking the child home, the then 40-year-old — whose name has been changed at her request to protect her privacy — was informed that she couldn’t adopt the boy just yet. He was “evidence” in an alleged rape case fought by his biological mother against the father. Three months later, with no signs of a settlement in the case, she decided to return her child to the adoption agency, worried about keeping him without legal rights and scared about the trauma of having to return him when he is older.

THE NEW SYSTEM HAS FAILED.

ALOMA LOBO, FORMER CHIEF OF CARA, INDIA’S APEX ADOPTION REGULATOR

A prostitution camp in the Marshall Islands provided many of the birth mothers caught up in former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen’s allegedly illegal adoption business, according to statements attributed to his co-defendant in a warrant to seize his assets.

When she was arrested in August, Lynwood Jennet, Petersen’s co-defendant in his criminal case and his fixer in the Marshall Islands, told police that the majority of women she had recently helped Petersen recruit came from a prostitution camp where girls as young as 15 or 16 did sex work in exchange for food and housing.

Jennet said when the girls at the prostitution camp would get pregnant, she would receive a call (the name of the caller was redacted in the documents) and she would contact Petersen.

“Lynwood was asked who runs the camp, Lynwood said it was the government or businessmen,” Department of Public Safety Detective Samuel Hunt, who interrogated Jennet following her arrest, said in the sworn affidavit, which was recently unsealed.

Jennet described the camp as a place where “young girls wait for fishermen to come and dock to do shopping and what not.”

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Fatma Marouf and her wife Bryn Esplin decided to foster refugee children in their home state of Texas, being rejected because of their sexual orientation never crossed their minds.

But Catholic Charities Fort Worth, which finds foster homes for unaccompanied refugee children, told the couple in 2017 they were not even eligible to apply because they did not “mirror the Holy Family” of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

“I just couldn’t believe it,” Marouf, a law professor at Texas A&M University who has worked with Catholic organizations across the country on immigration cases, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“It’s hurtful that they’re willing to work with me for immigration expertise, but somehow still think I’m inadequate as a person to take care of a child,” said Marouf - one of two gay couples suing the U.S. government for discrimination.

The cases reflect a growing tension in the United States between civil rights advocates opposing discrimination and religious groups seeking the right to operate according to their spiritual beliefs.

DELHI, India — A West Chicago couple said they are stranded in India after picking up their adoptive daughter.

Chris and Caeli Santa Maria are anxious to get home because they have two other children waiting for them in Illinois. But the couple said it could be weeks before that happens.

The family started the adoption journey 18 months ago and 18-month-old Elli is now with them. It is something they said they always wanted to do, but never thought returning home would be so difficult.

“How are we going to get out of here? We have two kids at home,” Chris Santa Maria said. “The thought of another few weeks is hard to imagine.”

The couple arrived in Delhi, India on March 1. A seven-day lockdown followed.

The Government has heard calls from the intercountry adoption sector, particularly adult adoptees, for greater involvement in service design and development. In response to these calls, the Government is holding consultations to ensure that the Intercountry Adoption Family Support Service (ICAFSS) continues to meet the needs of those who have experienced intercountry adoption.

This consultation aims to capture the voices of the intercountry adoption community in the redesign of the service, recognising the significant benefits gained from the involvement of those with lived experience.

To ensure that the ICAFSS continues to meet the needs of the community, we encourage responses to the Discussion Paper from adoptees and their families, prospective adoptive parents, service providers, professionals, academics and other stakeholders.

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