No love, no human contact, languishing and forgotten in the home: Under the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceau?escu, babies who did not fit the norm were mercilessly sorted out. Whats become of you?

Izidor spent the first three years of his life in the hospital.

The dark-eyed, dark-haired boy, born June 20, 1980, was abandoned when he was a few weeks old. The reason for this was obvious to all who looked: His right leg was twisted. After an illness (probably polio) he had been thrown into the sea of ??abandoned infants in the Socialist Republic of Romania.

In films from the period that capture the care of orphans, nurses are seen like assembly line workers wrapping newborns from a seemingly endless supply; with muscular arms and careless indifference, they toss the children onto a square cloth, expertly knot it into a neat bundle, and place it at the end of a line of silent, worried-looking babies. The women do not speak softly to them or sing to them. You can see the little faces trying to understand what is happening as their heads roll back and forth during the winding manoeuvre.

At his hospital in Sighetu Marma?iei, a mountain town in northern Romania, Izidor was probably fed with a bottle placed in his mouth and propped against the bars of his cot. Well past the age when children in the outer world begin to taste solid foods and then eat for themselves, he and his peers remained on their backs, sucking from bottles whose openings had been widened to allow watery gruel to flow through. Without proper care or physical therapy, the baby's leg muscles atrophied. At the age of three he was found "deficient" and transferred to the other side of town to a C?min Spital Pentru Copii Deficien?i , a home for unsavable children.

In the winter of 1989/1990, the pictures from Romanian orphanages went around the world: they showed children who were completely neglected, could no longer walk or speak and threw their excrement at the photographer. Small children severely handicapped by their mothers' illegal attempts at abortion crouched in unheated shacks.

In the winter of 1989/1990, the pictures from Romanian orphanages went around the world: they showed children who were completely neglected, could no longer walk or speak and threw their excrement at the photographer. Small children severely handicapped by their mothers' illegal attempts at abortion crouched in unheated shacks. For years they were vegetated by the "euthanasia of circumstances" under Ceausescu. With the international helpers, the demand for adopted children grew as a form of individual crisis management. Between 1989 and 1991 alone, Romania placed 10,000 children in the care of international foster parents. But shady businessmen quickly benefited from those spontaneous relief efforts and bought children from Romanian parents, who in turn delivered them to couples in Western Europe. Even births were paid for if the children were "marketable". The Romanian government tightened the adoption conditions in 1995: since then, only children from orphanages that are registered by the Romanian Adoption Committee are to be passed on. Despite the declining birth rate, around 150,000 children live in Romanian homes today - more than ever before.

According to UNICEF, Guatemala is a "paradise for child traffickers". In 1998 alone, more than 1,300 babies were placed for adoption abroad. Almost 200 lawyers and notaries live from the child trafficking business and collect up to 30,000 marks from the adoptive parents. According to UNICEF, pregnant women are required to sign the adoption papers. Other parents sell their children. Children's homes and doctors also benefit from the flourishing business with the babies.

Child trafficking is particularly thriving on the Internet: Like in a mail order catalogue, future adoptive parents can choose a child on the websites of private brokers. 3-year-old Oleg from Kazakhstan and his twin brother Zhenya were put up for adoption online for $23,000, payable in three installments - including travel expenses and immigration papers. The agency advertises that the two are "loving and active" and get along well with children and adults. They also had a sense of humor. The mother, the agency claims, abandoned the boys. In the meantime, the twins can no longer be found on the website - they were probably "bought" by adoptive parents.

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The young woman from the Allgäu did not know her biological mother before. Now she has visited her in Romania.

Roberta, 23:

I was adopted from an orphanage in Romania. I was two years and three months old then, now I'm 23 and have finished my training as a physiotherapist. My parents told me that the home was very poor. Later they adopted another little boy, who is my brother to me.

I have often intended to search for the woman who gave birth to me and gave me away. Especially during puberty I sometimes felt a little strange, not belonging. And then one day, that was in 2016, I just did it. I wanted to close the issue for myself. I had her name and about her age. When I saw a woman on Facebook, I knew immediately: This is her. We look alike. I thought it was pretty cool that there are still people who look a lot like me. I've never had anyone who looked like me.

I skyped with her. She was pretty nervous, I just a little bit. Then we planned my trip to Romania, we had discussed that my parents would come with me. They support me a lot in every way.

Following VG's revelations about illegal adoption, Minister for Children and Families Kjersti Toppe (Sp) is now inviting adoptees to a meeting. - I want to bring to light what has happened, she says.

VG has told the story of Camilla Austbø (37) who was illegally adopted to Norway.

Camilla was three years old when she was abducted from her own home in Ecuador, sold, and adopted to an unsuspecting couple in Skien.

VG has also told the story of Simon and several other adoptees from Ecuador. All came to Norway via a lawyer who was accused of buying and selling children for adoption.

Now Minister for Children and Families Kjersti Toppe wants to meet them.

Seven thousand British children were sent to Australia last century, told they were orphans or unwanted. It wasn’t true. Now facing old age, 1,400 are still searching for their families

It wasn’t until he was 71 that Michael Lachmann found out what a different life he might have had. He had always believed he was an orphan. But, already an old man, he discovered he was never an orphan. He had been loved and wanted. During the second world war his mother had left letters at a residential nursery saying she was only placing him in care while she was working and until “daddy gets home from Japan and we will be making a home for little Michael”. There was no childcare then, unless you were rich.

Instead of being collected by his mother at the war’s end, at the age of five he was shipped to Australia and placed in the Castledare Boys Home, run by the Christian Brothers, where numerous boys were starved, beaten and subjected to sexual abuse. He was told his mother was dead.

Between the 1910s and 1970, 7,000 children aged between three and 14 were transported to Australia as part of Britain’s child migrant program. Promised a better life and loving families waiting to adopt, most were instead delivered into institutions where large numbers suffered abuse. Often their names or birth dates were changed, erasing their links to their families of origin. Very few were adopted or fostered.

One thousand and four hundred of those children are still looking for their birth families. Searching for any family who remain. Now old men and women, time is running out for these children to piece together who they are – while they still can.

We are always looking for people who want to help Better Care Network Netherlands further. Do you want to stand up for children who have to deal with alternative care abroad? Do you have a heart for children, combined with a passion for development cooperation? The urge to be of significance and to take Better Care Network Netherlands further? Then the position of secretary at Better Care Network Netherlands might be something for you.

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Better Care Network Nederland (BCNN) is not a foundation, but a network of organizations and individuals who are actively involved with children without parental care in low- and middle-income countries. Through cooperation, BCNN wants to improve the help to children abroad without good parental care. The network is supported by a coordinator. Decision-making takes place in the steering group consisting of representatives of all member organisations. The secretary supports the coordinator in taking care of the organization of the network and participates in meetings of the steering group and working groups.

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- You are responsible for general incoming mail (physical and digital) via the secretariat and proper handling thereof.

A Polish woman who believes she could be Madeleine McCann has submitted samples for forensic testing to determine if she is the missing Brit.

Julia Faustyna, who also goes by Julia Wendell, has been claiming on Instagram and TikTok that she may be the child – who disappeared from a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 – due to similarities in their age and appearance.

She has amassed tens of thousands of followers on both platforms as a result, posting under the handle @iammadeleinemccann.

The 21-year-old has submitted samples for three different forensic examinations that will outline her DNA sequence, along with a 23andMe-style genetic test to establish her ancestry, private investigator Dr. Fia Johansson told RadarOnline.com.

“If the results come back that she’s British or from that area then we are going to continue our investigation into Madeleine McCann and communicate with the detectives in Portugal,” said Dr. Johansson, who relocated Wendell from Poland to a safe house in the United States after a series of death threats.

One of the questions that was asked with a significant frequency after we got to know the message of categorical support, for DNA and for Laura Kovesi, that President Klaus Iohannis gave on Thursday evening, was that if not somehow, through a similar declarations of accession, doesn't Mr. President flagrantly violate the provisions of the Constitution and, in this way, risks causing legitimate concerns, in particular, to our partners in the European Union? And here it is that not even two days have passed since, at the Palace in Dealul Cotrocenilor, Mr. President of all Romanians made these very controversial statements that we have received a categorical signal of concern, indeed another one expressed in very categorical terms :,,

There will be, for sure, also this time, some whiners who will reply that such statements are not new and that, in roughly the same terms, we have received numerous other warnings. Agreed, only this time the warning was issued by the chairman of the Bundestag European Affairs Committee himself, Gunther Krichbaum, who is publicly asking the European Commission President, Jean Claude Juncker, not only not to suspend the MCV for Romania, but to proceed to the initiation of the procedure provided for by Article 7 of the EU Treaty, which also provides for the loss of the right to vote in the EU Council, if it is found that that state has not respected the law and democratic norms. Or, after as Herr Gunther Krichbaum whispers, in a tone that does not admit of reply, like this and only like this, things must be seen!

Agree, and this time, you'll tell me that it's nothing new, because the MEP Cristian Preda, a well-known and fervent companion of the anti-Romanian ideals of the pro-European Monica Macova, had this exact idea. Which, also on the grounds/pretext of attacks on the independence of the judiciary, made the same proposal. Allow me, however, to add that it is not the first time that Herr Gunther Krichbaum shows his deep concern about the fate of the righteous DNA and of handcuff democracy. He did it a year ago, as in 2015, after publicly admitting that Romania meets the technical criteria to be admitted to the Schengen Area, his lordship raised the objection that "there are border guards (Romanians, of course not ) who accept benefits''. Where do we keep talking about corruption, right?

But wait a minute, as the saying goes, that's not all! For example, from information that circulates on media channels and which, so far, no one has contested, Herr Gerhard Krichbaum has certain connections with the Romanian lands and with everything special. Thus, as we learn from a material published in the July 8, 2015 edition of the "Jurnalului Na?ional", the wife of the fervent supporter of the multilateral cause-medal winner Laura Kovesi, was called Oana Harvalia before marriage, and the civil marriage took place at Sibiu, on November 5, 2010. Where, guess what, who was the mayor of the municipality?...

Did you somehow rush to hang up, thinking I had exhausted the list of coincidences? You don't even know what you were missing, because the big surprises will only come now. Find out, therefore, that, before becoming the wife of the influential German parliamentarian, Miss Oana Harvalia was Monica Macova's personal advisor during the period when she held the mandate of Minister of Justice. As, a few years before, his lordship held the position of executive director of the "Parents and Children" Foundation. A foundation whose main object of work was the adoption of children from Romania by families from other countries. How and under what conditions these adoptions were carried out, we learn from the statements of Teodora Bretzi, at that time secretary of state at the Romanian Adoption Office (ORA), also quoted in the article from the "National Journal":,,In Romania, adoptions were done on a conveyor belt. Adopted children were treated as a commodity''.

I was about 9 years old when I made a startling discovery. I realized I liked women rather than men. Of course, I didn’t know terms like lesbian, gay etc. In fact terms like queer and homosexual also were probably not coined. How did I find out I was gay ? In every movie we watched, I would fall in love with and have a crush on the heroine rather than the hero. I felt protective & wanted to put my arms around her. For eg I drooled over Saira Banu rather than Shammi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore rather than Rajesh Khanna. Julie Andrews in “Sound of Music” rather than Christopher Plummer, Audrey Hepburn in “Roman Holiday” rather than Gregory Peck. And the list was endless. It seemed the most natural thing – being that way.

Till I realized a few years later that it was considered immoral, bad etc. Of course, to me it was the most normal, natural feeling. And I was ready to fight with anyone who thought otherwise.

Like many women, I always had one dream – to have a child of my own. The only difference between me & other women being that they were married while I was a lesbian woman in a same sex union.

I always had a very strong maternal instinct and wanted a child to love & cherish. The problem was I knew I was never going to marry. And as I grew older and got into a live-in lesbian relationship, I thought well, why not adopt a child instead ? I thought it was a simple matter of applying to an Adoption Agency. Till reality hit.

My partner & I have been trying to adopt a child, unsuccessfully, for the last 10 years. The reason ? The current Adoption Laws in our country do not allow same sex couples to adopt a child, simply because they are not recognised as a “couple” or cannot legally marry according to the prevailing Marriage laws.

Mumbai Police arrested a man, Malikram, for kidnapping a two-year-old boy from Govandi. He reportedly

abducted the toddler after he and his wife were denied permission to adopt a child multiple times, citing

their financial condition and the fact that his wife is handicapped. Malikram has two daughters from his

first wife, however, he is not allowed to meet them.