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Fiom is the center of expertise in the field of unwanted pregnancy, distance & adoption and related questions. We offer information and help with unwanted pregnancies, information and aftercare in the field of adoption and guide people in their search for biological family in the Netherlands and abroad. We also manage the KID-DNA Database, which enables a match between a donor child and an anonymous donor. The starting point of working at Fiom is the right of self-determination of unwanted pregnant women, the right of a child to know where it comes from and to grow up while retaining its own identity. We do all this with approximately 80 passionate employees from our offices in 's-Hertogenbosch and Houten and from our home workplaces. Soon we will start with the establishment and design of the Expertise Center for Intercountry Adoption. This will be a network organization of stakeholders around the theme of intercountry adoption. In the Center of Expertise, adoptees, adoptive parents, birth relatives and other parties involved can access files, psychosocial assistance, searches and legal support, among other things.

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SEOUL, South Korea — Nearly 400 South Koreans adopted as children by families in the West have requested South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigate their adoptions through Friday’s application deadline, as Seoul faces growing pressure to reckon with a child export frenzy driven by dictatorships that ruled the country until the 1980s.

The commission on Thursday said it decided to investigate 34 cases among the 51 adoptees who first submitted their applications in August, which could possibly develop into the country’s most far-reaching inquiry into foreign adoptions yet.

A total of 63 adoptees from the United States, Europe and Australia submitted applications to the commission on Friday, claiming their adoptions were marred by falsified documents that laundered child statuses or identities as agencies raced to send thousands of children abroad each year.

The adoptees accused agencies of fabricating documents to ensure their adoptability, such as falsely registering them as orphans when they had living relatives or switching their identities with other children, which have resulted in lost connections or false reunions with birth relatives.

Similar issues have been raised by many of the 306 adoptees who previously submitted applications in past months, as they called for the commission to pressure agencies into fully opening their documents and to establish whether the government was responsible for the corrupt practices.

his article is the 26th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. We are deeply grateful to Seo-vin for sharing his insightful perspective as a second generation Korean-Dutch. His story reminds us that adoption not only affects one's lifetime but ripples through the generations to come. ? ED.

By Bastiaan Flikweert (Shin Seo-vin)

In this 2011 file photo, Bastiaan Flikweert poses with his family during the Ministry of Justice's event celebrating reinstatement of nationality for Koreans who were adopted overseas as babies. Courtesy of Bastiaan Flikweert

I vividly remember the grand ceremony at the Korean Ministry of Justice in 2011 when both of my parents' Korean citizenship was restored. It had been more than two years since we had moved to Korea as a family, and I remember feeling proud ? proud that my parents had completed their journey back home, and proud to be their "Korean" son. While my parents seemed to have completed their journey, mine had barely begun.

Korea had always played a role in my life. I looked different and was bullied for this, but simultaneously could not explain to myself why I looked different. I had a hard time explaining to my peers on the playground that my parents were adopted and that I, therefore, was Dutch. Why did I have to explain myself in the first place? Were my parents not ordinary Dutch people? It took me a while to realize that most people did not see it that way: To them, I was a second-generation immigrant. For a while, I attempted to explain that this was not ? no, could not ? be the case. My parents did not choose to come here in the first place! Why are they not seen as just Dutch people? They were adopted! Well, it turned out that adoption was the problem.

During a stay in her country of origin, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Julienne MPEMBA made a dramatic observation. In his neighborhood, many children do not go to school. And when she asks them why they stay at home, the answer is the same "I was expelled because my school fees have not yet been paid" or "this year, I will not go to school because we doesn't know how to pay my school fees".

Watching some children from her neighborhood wandering in the street, at a time when the others are at school, she said to herself that she was very lucky to finish her humanities in Congo and to be able to go to Belgium to undertake university studies.

The unfortunate and alarming observation is there. The lack of schooling in the DRC at the budgetary level obliges parents to finance the studies of their children, among other things by taking charge of the teachers' salaries and the various fees required by the school managers. This system is materialized by the payment a premium that varies according to the public Catholic, official, kimbaguist schools, etc.

If the parents are unable to pay the premium in question, the children are simply sent home, and this dramatic situation most often leads to dropping out of school. This situation particularly affects a large number of orphans who no longer have parents to pay the said premium. And when they are collected within a host family, the children of the host parents often have priority with regard to the payment of the premium.

In recent years, the Congolese state has made considerable efforts. But, despite significant government intervention in the education sector (representing 10% of the national budget for the schooling of 10 million children), the Congolese population is faced with major challenges: many infrastructures are dilapidated, the school materials are seriously lacking, the number of teachers is insufficient.

For the past two days, an interview with Julienne Mpemba has been circulating in the national media space. The aforementioned presents itself as the victim of a monumental instrumentalization. Outraged by this media outlet, Dieu-Merci Kitambo, co-founder of the NGO “Planète Junior – Les Amis de la Paix” came to our editorial office to give a completely different version of the facts.

ABCOMMUNICATION: Hello sir and can you tell us a bit about yourself?

GOD – THANK YOU KITAMBO: My name is Dieu-Merci Kitambo, I am the co-founder of the NGO “Planète Junior – Les Amis de la Paix. »

ABC: How do you know Ms. Julienne Mpemba?

DMK: Mrs. Julienne Mpemba, I know her, since she is the director of the Tumaïni Orphanage, which is here in Kinshasa. She is Congolese naturalized Belgian, for the moment she is in Belgium

It is with great disappointment that the NAS and ANW have taken note of the decision of the Minister of Justice and Security not to award the establishment of the new CBO for intercountry adoption to our initiative.

As new organizations, founded after the entry into force in 1998 of the Hague Adoption Convention in the Netherlands, ANW and the NAS represent the innovators in the adoption field. Unimpeded by the ballast from the period investigated by the Joustra Commission, we have been the pioneers and drivers of changes that have served the interests of children, based on our positively critical work attitude. In no way can our organizations be linked to the abuses of the last century. We regret that with our passion and high ethical standards we did not get the chance to establish the CBO. The minister awards the CBO to Wereldkinderen, a respected colleague but also part of the situations from the last century that prompted a review of the system.

With pain in our hearts we accept the decision regarding the CBO, especially because there is a fundamental difference of opinion with regard to the future of adoption and its importance for children. In the ANW and NAS plan, we stated that adoption should be maintained as an international child protection measure, regardless of where your cradle was. We believe that there are parents in the Netherlands now and in the future who can and want to play a role in providing a permanent family for children who cannot or are not allowed to grow up with their biological parents. In addition, in line with the Hague Convention, we believe that appropriate care does not mean that you grow up in a home or a system or in ever-changing foster care situations. The minister clearly makes different choices in this respect,

The minister has also made a choice for the countries with which cooperation will continue in the future and countries which will be divested. At the moment there are still active collaborations with 17 countries and children from all countries that meet the principles of the Hague Adoption Convention can be helped, provided that suitable parents are available. That will change drastically.

The US, Haiti, Peru, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are being phased out from the NAS and ANW's range of countries. Ongoing files in these countries may be processed, except in Haiti. This has to do with the security situation in the country. It is still allowed to adopt from our partner countries South Africa, Hungary and Lesotho. Whether the cooperation with Portugal (NAS) and Bulgaria (ANW) will be continued will be further assessed by the ministry. The other countries with which the Netherlands wants to maintain the adoption relationship are Thailand, the Philippines and Taiwan.

Marie Claire, a "royal" orphan.

According to Black Hair Styles/Care Home Black Hair Styles/Care Homemr. Carry Hamburger van Knoops & Partners [the legal source] is said to be 'Maria Jacoba Roovers', who according to the Registry Office of the municipality of Ginneken was born on March 11, 1927, is an 'illegitimate' daughter of Princess Juliana, who moved to the palace at the beginning of February 1926. Noordeinde in The Hague was fathered by her own father, Prince Hendrik, the husband of Queen Wilhelmina. Her official first names are 'Maria Jacoba'. Since 1959, when her search for her biological parents took shape, she started calling herself 'Marie Claire' and that wish to change her first names will be expressed in this research. Marie Claire died on October 3, 1997 in the St.Anna hospital in Geldrop and, as she had indicated in her last will, was cremated in Heeze.

The legal source January 2009

A - A letter from HR

The name 'Maria Jacoba Roovers' [1927] is linked to the Valkenhorst judgment of the Supreme Court [15 April 1994] concerning the right to inspect the archives of the foundation Valkenhorst vh. Stichting Moederheil in Breda to find out who her biological parents were. According to the source, just before her death in 1997, she received a confidential letter from a member of the Supreme Court. So far, no indications have been found that Marie Claire actually received the letter from the Supreme Court. However, it can be read in documents that Marie Claire's first will of October 1996 was drawn up, including the establishment and statutes of the foundation "Marie Louise Julia" and the wishes regarding the burial in Ulvenhout, municipality of Nieuw Ginneken. Given Marie Claire's state of health, this foundation had to become, after her death, the legal successor in the legal proceedings in the dispute of state. In that state dispute, Marie Claire demanded 7 million guilders from the State of the Netherlands. A striking fact is that in January 1997 Marie Claire was forced by her lawyer to engage another civil-law notary to set up the foundation. However, that foundation was already registered with the Chamber of Commerce in Utrecht under number 265667 and would be transferred to Eindhoven in the summer of 1997. The new notary, accompanied by two witnesses, appeared at her bedside on September 30 in connection with the will and the foundation. So that signing took place three days before Marie Claire's death anniversary. The content of the second and last will is only known that, according to the civil-law notary, legal succession has been arranged in it. It is assumed that cremation instead of burial was also mentioned therein.

Adoption law

In 1956 the Adoption Act came into effect in the Netherlands. This law has legalized adoption as a legal child protection measure. With adoption, the legal parentage of a child is transferred to the intended parents. The legal bond with the biological parents is completely broken in the Netherlands by adoption.

Hague Adoption Convention

In 1995, the Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in the Field of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention) entered into force between 66 countries. The agreements made are aimed at ensuring that the adoption procedure takes place as carefully as possible. The interests and rights of the child are central. Mediation by questionable persons or organisations, child trafficking and the pursuit of profit must thus be excluded.

The countries that are affiliated to the Hague Adoption Convention follow the same procedure for adoption and have made agreements with adoption mediators (in the Netherlands these are the permit holders ). The affiliated countries may apply different requirements and conditions. For example, about the possibility of adoption by one person or by a homosexual couple. While the treaty allows for these adoptions, not every country is required to allow them.

"I don't want any more contact with you!" her adoptive mother announced coldly and succinctly. "In retrospect, that break is the best thing that happened to me," says Myranda Hilhorst (52) from Hooglanderveen now. She describes her experiences as an adopted child in her book Wees.

Ex-Strongsville adoption agency employee sentenced for schemes to bribe Ugandan judges, lying to adopt Polish girl, who was raped

CLEVELAND, Ohio— A former employee of a defunct Strongsville adoptions agency was sentenced Friday to one year and one day in prison for two adoptions schemes that included bribing Ugandan officials and lying to Polish authorities about the adoption of a girl, who was later raped.

U.S. District Judge James Gwin sentenced Debra Parris, 70, to below the recommended sentence of about three years. He said he would have sentenced her to a longer prison term for her “terrible conduct” if it wasn’t for her serious healthcare needs.

“The amount of damage you’ve done to these children is horrendous,” Gwin said. “You’ve caused immeasurable psychological damage to these children and parents.”

Gwin also ordered Parris to pay a $10,000 fine and $118,197 in restitution to 42 families. He allowed her to self-report to prison by Jan. 9, unless the Bureau of Prisons directs her otherwise.