Thiruvananthapuram: An infant abandoned by its biological parents

fearing social stigma over pre-marital pregnancy is to be returned to the

mother. The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has decided to return the

baby as a DNA test proved its parentage.

As reported earlier the parents abandoned the baby fearing social

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Mein Lebenswerk ist für all diejenigen niedergeschrieben, die das unsägliche Leid und Elend dieser Welt in dem Bewusstsein mildern wollen, dass der Einzelne nur den berühmten Tropfen auf den heißen Stein bewirken kann. Das Verstecken hinter Religionen, Philosophien, Dogmen und Gesetzen macht das große Unrecht der Satten nicht ungeschehen, das täglich Zehntausende von Hungernden mit ihrem Leben bezahlen. Die Bereitschaft zum ehrlichen Teilen mit denen, die für unseren Wohlstand gnadenlos ausgebeutet werden, muss aus dem Herzen kommen. Das ist die Botschaft meines Buches, dass ich meinen adoptierten Wunschkindern widmen möchte.

Couple had applied through the website of the Department of Women Development and Child Welfare

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A 13-year-old orphan girl, who has been residing in the town-based Balasadanam, the childcare institution, for the last eight years, was adopted by a childless couple from Tamil Nadu as per the mandatory procedures governing adoption of children in the town on Monday.

The childless couple from Tamil Nadu had earlier applied for legalised adoption of child online through the Department of Women Development and Child Welfare’s website and completed the legal adoption process, sources said.

The recognised agencies and the authorities concerned facilitated the legal adoption process in strict compliance with the stipulated procedures.

The way to the adoption of Lilly from Laos brought her German adoptive parents to the limits: they had to disclose their life and financial situation and show a lot of patience.

The way to Beate Hoffmann and Ralf Henscheidt leads through the middle of the forest. The narrow road is not paved, the navigator has long since said goodbye. Until recently, the couple lived in the southern part of Cologne. But with children they wanted to get out of the city. Now they live in a small town south of Bonn. In your own house with a garden – and with a panoramic view over the Rhine. The breakfast table is set in the spacious kitchen. A photo of Lilly hangs on the wall: dark eyes, straight dark hair and a bright smile. Lilly will be three in the spring.

"She's a wonderfully bright kid, she's stubborn, she's confident, she's a lot of fun. We notice that she still processes some demons at night because she still doesn't sleep really well. But during the day she is a wonderfully bright girl.”

Lilly was born on March 11, 2011 in a hospital in Laos. Her biological mother was only 17 at the time and put her daughter up for adoption immediately after her birth.

“We only have information about her and we also got a photo. But we didn't get to know her."

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Zineb Khemissi is an Algerian final year PhD researcher at Portsmouth University, School of Area Studies, History, Politics, and Literature. Funded by the Algerian Embassy in London, her research explores the experience of Korean American adoptees’ identity formation processes within the realm of third space theories. She is interested in history, psychology, literature, and international relations.

Transnational and transracial adoptions are an ongoing phenomenon that have not received enough interest from within academia. The marketisation of children from poor to rich countries might not be of importance to all, or it might be another reality ‘hidden in plain sight,’ one in which hundreds of thousands of ‘unwanted’ mixed-race children and ‘war orphans’ are de-rooted, displaced, and transplanted into majority ‘White’ backgrounds. Transnational adoption (TNA) is the inclusion of nationally different children within white households (Barn, 2013). Transracial adoption (TRA) refers to adoptees’ different racial and ethnic backgrounds, foregrounding their race as the main concern in the processes of integration and self-identification.

Saving Children by Selling Them

A global market of adoption was established in the aftermath of the Korean War (1950-1953), to ‘save war orphans’ and ‘pitiful victims’ of that tragedy. Such rhetoric emanated from the American discourse of rescue and was emphasized by the media as a solid justification for child displacement. The US is the leading receiving country, while South Korea has the longest programme for international child adoption, spanning over sixty years (McKee, 2016). One reason for the dominance of the US in international child adoption has been the sense of duty of the ‘Christian Americanists’ (Oh, 2015), i.e. a dogma of religious beliefs used during the post-Cold War period as a political justification to obtain the transnational community’s consent for international adoption.

The constant flow of adopted children from poor to rich countries is a lucrative source of revenue that benefits the institutions and organizations that grant child transfers. ‘The Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex’ (TAIC) (McKee, 2016) goes beyond the valuation of human beings, dehumanising children through commodification under the call of capitalist gain. For example, child trafficking offered a source of revenue for the South Korean government; it brought in an estimated sum of US $15–$20 million in annual income (Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2008, cited by McKee, 2016). This commodification is both dehumanising and victimising children.

Emmanuelle Hébert and Thomas Cadorin ask that children adopted abroad be accompanied in their search for their origin. They challenge politicians and want to raise awareness among adoptees and the general public.

One evening in May 2019, Thomas Cadorin discovered that he had been the victim of child trafficking, while watching a report by Special Envoy on France 2, "Children sold from Sri Lanka".

"One day, I was taken from my mother's arms, it's unimaginable," he says.

In December 2019, back from his country of origin, he told us, with great emotion, of his reunion with his biological family. “Today, at 38, I have made progress. I want to help the younger generations, who are coming. Finding your place in life is already very complicated; it's even more difficult, when you don't know where you come from”, says Thomas.

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Western volunteers do more harm than good in African orphanages. Ban this 'orphanage tourism', says Arne Doornebal.

HThe idea that 'we' from the West will sometimes help poor countries to 'develop' is based on a bad idea of ??superiority. NRC 's analysis of the Dutch apologies for the slavery past (24/12) examined how that past still has an effect today. Striking and perhaps also painful for many readers: development cooperation was soon mentioned.

I immediately thought of one of the excesses in that area, which is not even qualified as development aid. That is the large number of young volunteers who, driven by an urge for adventure or the hope of ending up in heaven, go to Africa. There, usually not hindered by any experience of working with children, they go to work as volunteers in orphanages. Voluntourism is what this is called in English: a combination of volunteer work and tourism.

The proliferation of orphanages is clearly visible in Uganda, traditionally a country that is very popular with do-gooders. In 2018, the Ugandan government stated that more than five hundred orphanages were operating without a permit. It is estimated that more than 50,000 children live in orphanages in that country. This is striking, in a country where children of deceased parents are almost always taken care of by relatives. The main reason for the existence of these orphanages is the fact that western volunteers are lured to them, because they usually also bring a lot of money.

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Rebecca Trimble received a rare and long-awaited Christmas present this year. On December 15, the Senate unanimously passed a private bill for Trimble. The bill was introduced by the late Don Young and passed the House unanimously on June 7. President Joe Biden signed it into law today. The bill allows Trimble, who was inadvertently brought into the U.S. illegally by her adoptive parents when she was only days old, to remain in the country indefinitely.

Private bills, which benefit a specific individual or corporation, are extremely rare. Since 2008, 160 private relief bills have been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Just 22 have passed the House, and only two have been signed into law. The last one signed into law before Trimble’s was in 2012. A private bill for Trimble passed the House during the last Congress but did not make it through the Senate, requiring the process to start over.

On February 10, 2020, Trimble received a letter from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) informing her she has 33 days to leave the country. At the time she was living in Bethel with her husband John, an Army dentist, and their two children.

Trimble, who was born in Mexico, was adopted by an American couple when she was a baby. She was raised in the Pacific Northwest and grew up believing she was an American citizen. But in 2012 when she tried to get a REAL ID, the nightmare started. The government said her adoption had not been performed legally, and because she had voted in 2008 she had broken the law.

The Landmine broke this story in March of 2020. Four months later, the New York Times did a featured story on Rebecca’s situation. This Landmine article explains the long and arduous process the Trimble family has faced over the last ten years.

Given the lengthy, uncertain process and decline in adoption, care facilities often have to transition their wards to life without adoption.

Extreme poverty, single parenthood and abuse are some top factors that push parents to give up their children.

At a children’s care facility in Cubao, north of Manila, 18-year-old Mel and her four younger siblings wait to be adopted.

Mel, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, is already too old to be adopted. Her only option to join a family is to be adopted along with any, or all, of her four siblings.

It has been five years since Mel and her siblings joined the Gentle Hands children’s home, which also houses many children who have experienced trauma.