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Following the news that a number of participants in the Spoorloos program in Colombia are not linked to the correct biological family, there are signs of unrest among adoption organizations. Stichting Wereldkinderen, the only Dutch organization with a permit that mediates in adoptions in Colombia, has received three questions, says director Jeroen Jansen when asked. According to Inez Teurlings of the Interland Adopted Foundation, some adoptees are concerned after the revelations about the mismatches.

"It causes unrest. For example, there are questions about whether some DNA tests have been performed correctly. Cheap tests only test on four points, others on twenty. We find the latter tests more reliable, but they are a lot more expensive, around 400 euros," said Teurlings. "There must also be a hearing about Edwin Vela's actions." Furthermore, according to Teurlings, the way in which Spoorloos presenter Derk Bolt reacted was poorly received in the community. Bolt said on talk show Khalid & Sophie on Wednesday evening that he continues to believe in the discredited fixer.

According to the World Children's Foundation, the broadcast of the Scammers Addressed program, in which the mismatches come to light, can "lead to emotions and questions among people who feel connected to adoption in general or adoptions from Colombia in particular, from whatever role." , according to a message on the website. Jansen does not want to comment further "on the nature of the reactions we receive, since they are of a personal nature".

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Improving the adoption process and long-term outcomes for everyone impacted by adoption will require legislative action by Congress to address key issues. In the January 2022 issue of the Adoption Advocate, we break down NCFA’s legislative priorities for the year to explain four pending and future bills that can make adoption better and how advocates can take action to understand the issues and engage with their members of Congress.

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In any given session of Congress, thousands of bills are proposed, and of those, hundreds are reviewed, marked up, and voted on. While these bills address a variety of critical issues, we believe that Congress should prioritize the expedient passage of laws that cultivate a society that affirms the human right of every child to thrive in a permanent, loving family and removes unnecessary barriers to adoption. For hundreds of thousands of children in the U.S. and around the world, adoption is the only pathway to the family they deserve. As a longstanding national adoption advocacy organization, the National Council For Adoption (NCFA) has identified four critical pieces of legislation that we believe Congress should pass in 2022 to effect positive changes in the adoption system and move more children to permanency in a timely manner.

None of these bills on their own will create the type of reforms and policy changes that are needed to address the full scope of the problem. But taken together, with bold Congressional leadership, engaged grassroots advocates, and actionable commitment from policymakers and regulators to removing the barriers to adoption, we can make significant progress for the children and youth who are counting on us.

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This newsletter is for everyone who is involved in or wants to be informed about the expertise center for intercountry adoption. In the newsletter, the project team of the Ministry of Justice and Security (JenV) shares the progress in the development of the center. To this end, the team collaborates with organizations that already support adoptees in their searches for biological parents and/or family.

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Trish Maskew Leaves Office of Children's Issues

Trish Maskew Out from Office of Children’s Issues.

Today, October 9, 2019 we just received an email from the Department of State which said the following:

Shortly after the Symposium, I informed the Department that I have accepted a new position with another federal agency, and this week will be my last in the Office of Children’s Issues. LaTina Marsh has assumed acting as Adoption Division Chief. Being able to hold a Symposium that brought all voices from the adoption community together was a perfect way to mark the end of my tenure here. I have enjoyed working with all of you and wish you the very best as you continue your efforts on behalf of children and families.

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Governor Sir William Phips of Massachusetts adopts a son, marking the first recorded legal adoption in the colonies.

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Ursuline nuns found the first orphanage in North America in Natchez, Mississippi.

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The two men, now aged 45 and 46, were taken from their mother to be adopted in France, and only discovered the truth in 2019. By publicizing their case, they hope that other victims will be identified, and will not hesitate to assert their rights before international courts.

Javier and Lorenzo (their names have been changed) were 3 and 4 when they were taken from their mother in Guatemala. While she thought she was placing them in a center for malnourished minors, they were sent to France through a private organization approved by the State, Les Amis des enfants du monde (AEM), to be adopted by a Parisian couple. For thirty-eight years, they lived in the fable of abandonment. And only discovered the truth of their theft in January 2019. Their mother, torn all her life by the disappearance of her little boys, had just died two months earlier in Guatemala.

It is for what Javier describes as "trafficking in human beings" that the two men, now aged 45 and 46, filed a complaint, Thursday, November 17 in Paris, for "kidnapping". The complaint is based in part on documents found in Guatemala by Le Monde at the end of an investigation into the channels of international adoption, the various sections of which were published in December 2021. The two children, underlines the text of the complaint, entered France in 1981 "in violation of French immigration laws, a violation which could not be ignored by the organization Les Amis des enfants du monde and which was permitted by the serious negligence of the State authorities of the two States". Contacted by Le Monde,the AEM did not wish to speak.

“I am convinced that our complaint will move a lot of lines, says Javier. It is shown that the irregularities were also committed here, not only in Guatemala. My fight is for France not to normalize child abduction and allow full compensation for victims like my brother and me. »

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Bihar News: The couple from Washington in the US was on a tour of India when they came across 3-year-old Arjit from Danapur in Bihar. The couple completed the documentation process for adopting the child on Thursday.

Danapur (Bihar): A 3-year-old differently-abled boy, who was abandoned by his parents on a road during a chilling winter night three years ago, was adopted by a doctor couple from the United States recently.

The couple from Washington in the US was on a tour of India when they came across Arjit from Danapur in Bihar. The couple completed the documentation process for adopting the child on Thursday.

On Thursday, Danapur SDO Pradeep Kumar handed over the Arjit to the couple after verifying all the details and other legal proceedings.

Meanwhile, the American couple- Dr. Carlin Roy Miller and her husband Kathleen Shublian- has applied for Arjit’s passport to take him to his new home in Washington. The couple already has three children, including two sons and a daughter.

Patna (Bihar) [India], December 2 (ANI): ‘There are angels in human shape’ — so goes the phrase on the lips of everyone who received the heartwarming news about Arjit, an orphan boy from Patna.

Raised on Patna’s streets, the eight-year-old is all set board a transcontinental flight to the United States to shart a new chapter of his life.

The specially-abled orphan was found abandoned on the streets amid biting cold in Patna’s Bihta, three years ago. However, the boy is about to turn a corner in his young life as he has been adopted by a doctor couple in the US.

It is understood that the couple will fly down to Patna and head back with an adopted son, having already completed all the necessary paperwork.

According to sources, the couple will fund his medical treatment in the US.