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Also offer adopted children from the US the chance of a family in the Netherlands. With this call, COC Netherlands and Meer dan Gewenst respond to the decision of Minister Weerwind (Legal Protection) to break the adoption relationship with the US.

In a letter to the House of Representatives dated 2 November, Minister Weerwind announced that he would break off the adoption relationship with the United States and seven other countries.

"Children are now at risk of being left behind in temporary US foster care when they could be given a loving home in the Netherlands," said COC and the organization for rainbow families Meer dan Gewenst . "That is regrettable and undesirable."

The aim of the review by the Netherlands of the intercountry adoption policy is to reduce the risk of abuses. In the past, abuses have led to suffering among adopted children and often also among their biological and adoptive parents. COC and Meer dan Gewenst wholeheartedly support the objective of preventing abuses.

On March 27, 1980, In-Soo Radstake arrived at Schiphol with eight others from South Korea. Their journey had started about twenty-four hours earlier from the Korean capital of Seoul to Tokyo and finally, via Alaska, ended in the Netherlands. And there a new journey began for him: an inner journey to find his way back to his identity.

I came to Rotterdam for love. As a starting filmmaker, I was actually on my way from Zwolle, where I had studied journalism, to Amsterdam: the beating heart of Dutch film making. But in 2003 I went to Rotterdam to research my first documentary called Made in Korea: a one-way ticket Seoul-Amsterdam? In this documentary I wanted to visit all eight adoptees who were on the same plane with me after almost twenty-five years. I was curious how they had experienced their adoption.

Poster for the documentary 'Made in Korea: a one-way ticket Seoul-Amsterdam?' Photo from personal archive In-Soo Radstake.

And one of those eight would become my girlfriend. I called it love at second sight because not long after our first meeting, in 2003 in a restaurant on the Meent, we fell in love with each other. She immediately made it clear to me that she lived in Rotterdam and did not want to leave here. The city reminded her of another port city, that of Busan in South Korea. The Rotterdam skyline with its tall buildings, the ships that sail on the Maas and the lights that burn everywhere. When she told me that, I had never been to South Korea, let alone Busan.

But that I had never been to South Korea, that was not right. I was born there, spent the first three months of my life in an orphanage in Seoul. Here in the Netherlands a second life began for me, with a Dutch father, a Dutch mother and a non-biological sister who was also adopted from South Korea. So I should have said that I had never been back.

GOOD MORNING NORWAY (TV 2): Being adopted to Norway does not necessarily mean that you have drawn the winning lottery ticket. Alexander Skadberg knows all about that.

When Alexander Skadberg was 22 months old, he was adopted from an orphanage in Colombia to Bodø in Norway. But for all these years he has known little about his adoption story.

- What I know is not really too much, but that my biological mother could not look after me then. Which ended in an adoption, the bodøværingen tells Good Morning Norway.

This has led to him being stuck with many questions growing up.

- But based on what I experienced, things started to be different very early on. Unger asked: "What do you look like, you have big lips, you look different", before adding:

The Gujarat High Court recently held that a registered deed of adoption with a registrar is sufficient to prove the adoption of a child and that there is not requirement to have a civil court decree affirming such deed [Khojema Saifudin Dodiya vs Registrar, Birth and Death].

Single-judge Justice Biren Vaishnav refused to agree with a Bombay High Court decision in this regard which had held that only a civil court can decide if the adoption was legal and done after following due procedure.

which had said that deleting the biological father's name from the birth certificate of a child could be drastic.

"In the opinion of this Court, the refusal to do so and not correcting the birth certificate of the ward post the adoption would lead to multiple hurdles in day-to-day affairs connecting the dealings with various public or other authorities and the practical difficulties that they would face would be more drastic if the power under Section 15 of the Registration of Birth and Deaths Act is not exercised in favour of the parties," the judge opined.

The bench was seized of a plea filed by a woman, who sought to change the middle and last names of her son. The woman had a child from her first marriage.

The girl was rescued on February 9 after her school teacher noticed scars and injury marks on her body and brought it to the attention of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), which registered a case at the RK Puram police station.

A 50-year-old nurse, arrested for the alleged physical abuse and torture of a 7-year-old girl who she illegally adopted, said she beat the child to “straighten her out” for not studying enough and for watching too many cartoons, Delhi Police officers investigating the case said on Saturday.

Police said that the woman and her son would heat a knife or tongs, and would brand the nine-year-old child with it. (FILE)

The girl was rescued on February 9 after her school teacher noticed scars and injury marks on her body and brought it to the attention of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), which registered a case at the RK Puram police station. The nurse’s 27-year-old biological son, who allegedly also participated in the torture, was arrested the same day, while the woman was arrested from Haridwar on February 16, police said.

Police said the girl’s injuries have healed and she is currently in the care of the CWC.

New research conducted by New York's largest adoption agency suggests that adoptions anchored around transparency and choice offer the most favorable outcomes for birth-mothers.

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The past year has not been good for the image of adoption. In the wake of the Dobbs decision rolling back abortion rights last June, the media has been filled with reports describing how adoption is “a traumatic event for everyone involved.”

Adult adoptees, for instance, have detailed the crises they’ve often faced in life, with some even comparing adoption to colonization or slavery. Then there are the concerns about potential coercion pregnant women might face if abortion were to be restricted even further.

But is any of this actually relevant?

When I found out I had a different name to the one I grew up with, my life story began to change.

As an adopted person I had only ever seen my amended birth certificate which was written 'as if I was born to' my adoptive parents.

But when I was 18 years old the laws around closed adoptions changed and allowed me to apply for my original birth certificate.

So I did.

It was like reading a front page news story about myself that I had no idea about.

Western Australia will follow Victoria in holding an inquiry into forced adoption, following two years of campaigning by people who were adopted out as children and mothers who were forced to give up their babies.

A parliamentary committee this afternoon confirmed an inquiry would be held after both sides of politics indicated support for it in recent days.

Premier Mark McGowan on Tuesday revealed a personal connection to the issue upon backing calls for an inquiry.

Survivors in Western Australia say little has been done to support them or restore their basic human rights since WA became the first state in the country to apologise for forced adoption in 2010.

Inquiry to probe adoption practices over four decades

The court terms the “young woman in distress” to be a unique case. The petition was originally filed seeking medical termination of pregnancy by a 20 year-old student.

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ON Tuesday, a Supreme Court bench comprising the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala, issued a clarification in its direction from earlier this month to seek prospective adoptive parents with utmost priority and urgency before the delivery of a child by an unmarried 20 year-old student.

The petition was originally filed seeking medical termination of pregnancy. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), however, submitted a report that in light of the petitioner being in the last stage of her pregnancy, the termination of pregnancy could cause harm to the mother and the child. Accordingly, the bench, by an order dated February 2, directed AIIMS to fix a suitable date for the delivery of the child and to ensure all necessary facilities are made available without charges.

Further, the petitioner suggested giving the child for adoption since neither she nor her family was in a condition to care for the child. In light of the situation, the bench granted permission for the adoption of the child by prospective parents registered with the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA). Subsequently, on Tuesday, the bench directed CARA to implement the order and take necessary steps within 24 hours.

Between 1990 and 2017, 1,575 Ethiopian children were adopted in France through an approved association, Les Enfants de Reine de Miséricorde. In a book published in 2020, one of them, Julie Foulon, denounces irregular and even illegal adoption procedures. On May 26, 2021, several families and adoptees filed a complaint against ERM for breach of trust and fraud.

One morning in August 2017 in her Parisian studio, Julie Foulon, 20, logs into her Facebook account where a message from a stranger awaits her. “Hello Julie, I am Gertrude. I'm looking to get in touch with you. Do you know a lady in Ethiopia named Askale Mekonnen? »Julie's heart stops beating. This name is that of her biological mother, whom she left in 2003 when she was adopted, at the age of 6, with her little sister by a Norman couple. This contact with an intermediary from the Ethiopian diaspora confirms what Julie strives to explain to her adoptive parents since she can speak French: no, contrary to what is indicated in the adoption documents, her biological mother is not deceased. Worse still, Julie learns after having joined her biological mother by Skype through Gertrude: Askale had been looking for her daughters since the year of their separation and found their new names by accident, by dint of imploring the Social Affairs office of Dessie, in Ethiopia, where she lives, to hear from them. A stranger, white, ended up going to her house and providing her with a photo of her daughters. On the back of the photo, their new French name.

This reconnection in 2017 and the Skype exchanges that followed shake Daniel and Chantal Foulon, to whom the little girls had been presented as orphans. Everything seemed to be in order in their eyes when they concluded, in 2003, the adoption procedure for their daughters. Having received their approval, they approached an organization authorized for adoption (OAA) in Normandy, Les Enfants de Reine de Miséricorde (ERM), established in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso since the beginning of the 1990s. August 19, 2003 , after having paid 10,000 euros for the operating costs of ERM as well as for the costs of proceedings in the country, the Foulons go to Roissy airport to pick up Sara, who will become Julie, and her little sister from 4 years old, whose first name will also be changed. Growing up, Julie turns out to be a difficult child, especially with her mother. The young girl refuses to forge a relationship with her and for good reason: in her heart, the place of a mother is already taken by the one left behind. How could such a mistake happen? How could the existence of a biological mother fall by the wayside in the context of a full and transnational adoption, strictly supervised in France? How could such a mistake happen? How could the existence of a biological mother fall by the wayside in the context of a full and transnational adoption, strictly supervised in France? How could such a mistake happen? How could the existence of a biological mother fall by the wayside in the context of a full and transnational adoption, strictly supervised in France?

For Julie Foulon, this fourteen-year separation remains a suffering, which she expresses at the age of 22 in Sara et Tsega? 1 , an autobiographical book mixing memories and fiction published in May 2020. "I hesitated to publish it, recounts -her for Chat. But I said to myself: “Do it, because there are bound to be other adopted people in your situation.” »She was not mistaken: the book had the effect of a small bomb in the middle of the adoptees of Ethiopia, where it passed from hand to hand. Quickly, she received many testimonials from people between 20 and 40 years old, like her adopted through ERM and who, too, had strong doubts about the conditions in which their adoption took place. Biological parents declared dead but still[…]