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"Many Christians do not understand the complexity of adoptions"

The priest Rebecka Folkesten wants Christian actors to be examined

Documents with children awaiting adoption.

There are approximately 60,000 internationally adopted children in Sweden. Experts that Dagen has spoken to say that a large proportion of these have grown up with Christian adoptive parents. (Moises Castillo, private)

When Xueli was a baby her parents left her on the ground outside an orphanage. In China, albinism is seen by some as a curse.

The rare genetic condition causes a lack of pigment which makes Xueli's skin and hair very pale and also makes her extremely sensitive to sunlight.

But looking different led Xueli to her modelling career. Now aged 16, she has graced the pages of Vogue and fronted campaigns for top designers.

This is her story as told to Jennifer Meierhans.

The staff at the orphanage named me Xue Li. Xue means snow and Li means beautiful. I was adopted when I was three and went to live with my mum and sister in the Netherlands. My mother said she could not think of a more perfect name and she thought it was important to keep a reference to my Chinese roots.

The Maltese health authorities have confirmed that the Maltese national that contracted coronavirus while in India with his partner in the process to adopt a child passed away. Earlier today Prof. Charmaine Gauci refrained from speaking about the man’s condition during the coronavirus weekly brief.

He was expected to return back to Malta today.

Earlier this week

Maltese COVID-19 patient awaits medical experts’ go-ahead to leave India – High Commissioner

Malta High Commissioner for India earlier this week had confirmed with Newsbook.com.mt that the man was awaiting a go-ahead by medical experts. The plan was for the 47-year-old Ivan Barbara, to travel to Malta today.

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At least 5,678 children and adolescents are in different reception centers in the country waiting for a family

The President of the State, Luis Arce Catacora, promulgated this Thursday the modifying law of procedural abbreviation to facilitate the adoption of at least 5,678 children and adolescents who are in different reception centers in Bolivia and that guarantees the restitution of the human right to have a family.

"Our Government supports and executes public policies with priority for the benefit of our children , this is one of them and we are happy to enact this law that will bring institutionalized children closer to the right to have a family," said Arce.

The norm that modifies articles of Law N ° 548 of the Child and Adolescent Girl Code was prepared by the Ministry of Justice and Institutional Transparency to allow fast and safe adoption processes.

The president added that before the new rule an adoption process lasted up to more than four years ; however, with this modification it should only take three months.

Stolen Generations survivors from the Northern Territory are taking their fight for compensation to the courts, with legal firm Shine Lawyers preparing to file a class action against the federal government this morning.

Key points:

Stolen Generations survivors in the NT have never been compensated

Shine Lawyers will file a class action in the NSW Supreme Court this morning

Some survivors say compensation would mean proper recognition

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Forty-year-old Maki Takehisa from Springdale was sentenced Tuesday, April 27, to one year of home confinement for aiding and abetting in alien smuggling, according to a U.S. District Court document — Western District of Arkansas, Fayetteville Division.

The charge is a violation of the Compact of Free Association, which is the agreement between the U.S. and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Paul Petersen pleads guilty to fraud in adoption scheme

During the one year detention, Takehisa will not leave her residence without permission from her probation officer. Exceptions for leaving her residence, which need to be authorized by her probation officer, include employment, medical appointments, religious purposes.

Takehisa came to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigations after they received the information she was helping expectant Marshallese moms to come to Northwest Arkansas and give up their babies for adoption.

Summary

Background and issue

The group of children released for adoption is essentially our country's or other countries' child welfare children. Many have been exposed to neglect and many have major health challenges. This places great demands on the capacity and caring ability of adoptive parents, not only while the children are minors, but also in a life course perspective. In order to be able to make a good and sound assessment of adoption applicants , it is necessary to have up-to-date knowledge of which factors are important for the applicants' ability to take care of an adopted child's care needs and howthe various factors may affect the ability to care over time. The Directorate for Children, Adolescents and Families (Bufdir) has therefore asked the National Institute of Public Health to make an assessment of the criteria currently used in assessing applicants for adoption. The assessment of the criteria shall be made in the light of a literature review with a systematic search of which characteristics of adoptive parents are important for the adoptive children's health and development. The report is a presentation of the results of this literature review.

Method

We conducted a literature review with a systematic literature search based on a number of inclusion and exclusion criteria described in more detail in the report. The report presents and discusses the results from 146 identified studies that included study variables about both adoptive parents / adoptive family and adopted children where (1) the variables about the adopted children were outcome variables, (2) where parental stress was outcome variable, and (3) where the studies maintained sufficient scientific quality.

Sumanta Kar believes that youth need to be enabled towards self-reliance as responsible citizens and contributing members of society.

In any society, it is the families that afford children a loving home. When raised in a caring family, the children are more likely to enjoy the cherishable facets of life: health, education, relations, identity, self-actualization, and initiative. Families are important for the children’s holistic development.

We believe that childcare must be at the heart of any development endeavor. Millions of children worldwide, including in India continue to be left behind and their rights denied. They suffer the impacts of poverty, violence, inequality, and exclusion disproportionately, due to their sensitive phase of life and development.

Healthy and happy childhood, quality education, and psycho-social well-being are foundational not only for holistic development but also to a child’s capacity to contribute meaningfully to society. Only well brought up, responsible and self-reliant adults can propel sustainable development by breaking down the circle of poverty and exclusion in the forthcoming generations.

Different circumstances call for different care options for children in need. We provide a range of alternative care solutions customized for every such child – provision of loving homes in children’s villages, strengthening vulnerable families, facilitating quality upbringing in non-biological families, protecting children during emergencies, and supporting the youth on their path to independence.

Whether they were willing to adopt 5 brothers and sisters at the same time? Elise (37) and Klaas (43) were soon out. "These children needed each other terribly."

Elise: “The past seven years have gone way too fast. My oldest daughter Irma will turn eighteen this year. Efraín is sixteen, Rufino is twelve, Ishmael is eleven and Rosa is ten. Suddenly we only have adolescents in the house and that takes some getting used to. Not only because things can get quite explosive here with their Latino temperament, but also because as parents of teenagers you start the process of letting go. I find that difficult, because I feel I only just got them. I keep telling Irma, 'If you ever move out, please stay close to me.' ”

Always wanted

“I had a girlfriend at primary school who was adopted. Maybe that's why I already said that I wanted to adopt a child later. Although that idea had faded into the background when I married Klaas at the age of 21. Pregnancy was welcome, but we were still young and in no rush. It wasn't until years later that getting pregnant still hadn't worked out, and we turned to the doctor and ended up in the medical mill. We've made a number of IUI attempts, but to be honest, I had my doubts from the beginning. I reacted strongly to the hormone treatments and it felt quite unnatural to look forward to a child like this. After an information evening about IVF, I suddenly knew for sure: I am going to fill out adoption papers.

It has never been discovered why we could not get pregnant, so there is a good chance that a pregnancy was eventually successful. The fact that I was able to close this chapter so easily, I think, is because the desire to adopt children had subconsciously grown within me for a long time. Klaas and I are Christians and we do not believe in coincidence. We think God has led us to this choice. And I like that we can tell our children that adoption was not our last option, but actually the first. ”