BHOPAL: The six-year-old boy from Jhansi, who got lost in Bhopal in May,

will soon be united with his mother.

The secretary of State Legal Service Authority told TOI on Sunday that the

adoption process of the boy had been cancelled and orders to send him

home were passed in late November. There has been a delay in executing

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Pune: Stringent government rules have considerably brought down foreign adoptions in the country, women and child

development department data revealed.

From around 600 since 2016, the number of inter-country adoptions is down to 275 this year till November. In comparison, the

number of in-country adoptions is 2,000 in 2019.

The adoption agencies attribute the fall in foreign adoptions to the changes in the adoption procedures and the “stringent”

On November 8, 2018, the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers enacted new adoption regulations that restrict which children may be eligible for intercountry adoption. The new regulations restrict which children may be eligible for intercountry adoption and limit intercountry adoption to children in three groups: 1) children living in institutions, for whom an adoptive family in Latvia has not been found; 2) stepchildren of prospective adoptive parents; and 3) children living with a foster care family in Latvia, if the adoptive child is related to the prospective adoptive parents. The new regulations will also impose additional requirements on accredited adoption service providers (ASPs) and require more pre-adoption training programs, including classroom and practical training hours. ASPs have six months from the effective date of the new regulations to create new training programs and apply for an extension of their authorization to operate in Latvia. Latvia’s Ministry of Welfare (Central Adoption Authority) will post an official English translation of the new regulations on their website in January 2019. Once the regulations are posted, the Office of Children’s Issues will post an updated notice on adoption.state.gov with a link to their site, and will update the country information page for Latvia.

The U.S. Embassy in Latvia has met with the Ministry of Welfare to discuss adoption cases that were in process prior to the November 8, 2018 implementation of the new regulations (pending cases). The Minister confirmed that cases will not be subject to the new requirements if the prospective adoptive parents received an official referral prior to November 8, 2018. On a case-by-case basis, the Ministry will consider whether the new requirement will apply to situations in which the ASP submitted completed adoption applications OR letters of intent prior to November 8, 2018 but for which the prospective adoptive parents have not yet received a referral.

In an effort to ensure the Ministry is aware of all pending cases, ASPs should provide the following information to Jana Sipola, Senior Desk Officer at the Children and Family Policy Department of the Latvian Ministry of Welfare, by e-mail at Jana.Sipola@lm.gov.lv.

Names of the prospective adoptive parents;

Names of the children;

Soul traffickers (Investigation of suspicions of fraudulent adoptions between Guatemala and Belgium)

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ANNEXES:

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Ankestyrelsen har udarbejdet en undersøgelse om bæredygtige alternativer til den nuværende struktur for den internationale adoptionsformidling i Danmark. Social- og Indenrigsministeriet sender undersøgelsen i høring den 20. december 2019.

VADODARA: Six-year-old Rahul and three-year-old Kadu — two brothers who made the Nizampura Shishugruh their home —

after losing their parents a couple of years ago to illness.

However, fate had another home designed for the Surat-born siblings. They got a fresh lease of life when a French couple,

Vincent Pierre (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vincent-Pierre) Marie Padel and Christine Nadia Lapinsonniere, got

permission to adopt the two brothers.

Three decades after the collapse of communism in Romania, Visinel Balan still has fresh memories of one of its most infamous legacies -- the orphanage system in which he grew up.

"They used to beat us until we couldn't move," he says of the orphanage he entered in 1987, aged just two months.

The scars of those institutions, exposed to the world in the 1990s through horrifying news images of emaciated children in caged beds, have still not fully healed for Balan.

They were places where children were caned on the soles of their feet for bedwetting and fed in an assembly line while sitting on potties.

Balan was one of the "Decretei" or "children of the decree": children abandoned by poorer families as a result of the natalist policies of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, among them a 1966 decree banning abortion.

How can I participate in the study of distance and adoption between 1956 and 1984?

You can participate in the distance and adoption investigation between 1956 and 1984 by contacting the distance and adoption hotline. This can be done by telephone, e-mail and mail. You can register up to and including June 2020.

Distance and adoption by pressure

According to research, many women renounced their child for adoption between 1956 and 1984 under pressure. The government wants even more clarity about the situations of the distance parents, distance children and adoptive parents. And about the role of the government. The government wants to learn from this and if necessary adjust rules and agreements on, for example, adoption. That is why a more extensive investigation is ongoing until the end of 2020.

The researchers include personal experiences of, for example, distance parents or adopted children in the study. And also material such as photos and letters.