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State of affairs research on domestic distance and adoption between 1956 and 1984

All people who have reported to the Application Point for Domestic Distance and Adoption in the period between September 2019 and 31 July 2020 will receive a message from Fiom or the Verwey-Jonker Institute this week. In it, the Ministry of Justice and Security informs them about the state of affairs with regard to the Verwey-Jonker Institute's research into domestic distance and adoption between 1956 and 1984. Unfortunately, this research is delayed because errors were made in the design of the Application Point.

Errors at the reporting point

A report was made of every call that was received at the Application Point. Not all requirements of the privacy legislation have been met during the processing and storage of the reports. The people who told their story should have been asked for written permission to use and keep the interview record. Also, all applicants should have been given the opportunity to check and correct their report. At the time, this only happened if the applicant asked for it during or after the interview. As far as is currently known, mistakes have been made in a number of interview reports. Due to all the shortcomings, the responsible ministry has reported a data breach to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

Excuses

All the people who have shared their story have taken a bold and difficult step that deserves a lot of appreciation. Thanks to the decision of all those referrers to share their story, we know what happened in the past and we can learn lessons from it. Minister for Legal Protection Sander Dekker said publicly in the Lower House that the errors should not have happened at the Application Point. He has expressed regret to all who registered at the reporting point.

The Czech Republic does not recognize adoption by gay couples

On Monday, the Czech Constitutional Court ruled that denial of parental rights in the case of cross-border adoption is not against the constitution. As a result, the judges of rainbow families effectively deny the parents' rights and violate EU law and the policies of the European Commission.

The regional court in Prague petitioned for the repeal of a provision denying parents' right to cross-border rainbow families in connection with a pending appeal against the judgment of the district court in Nymburk, 40 km northeast of Prague The Petition of the Gay The couple had been rejected, a citizen of the Czech Republic and his partner from Trinidad and Tobago. Their two American citizenship children were adopted by a court decision in New Jersey.

According to the Czech District Court, a requirement for recognition according to Section 63 (1) of the Act on Private International Law was not met at all, as adoption would not be permitted under the substantive provisions of Czech law: the Czech legal system allows the joint adoption of a child but not through “only” partnered partners. Same-sex couples in the Czech Republic have been able to enter into a registered partnership since mid-2006; they cannot marry with equal rights.

The petitioner agreed with this conclusion, but considered the condition in question to be unconstitutional as the court did not recognize the "factual and legal reality", did not protect family life within the meaning of Article 10 (2) of the Basic Charter and did not act in the best interests of the child.

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Miss Belgium finalist Kedist Deltour traded misery in Ethiopia for life full of opportunities

Miss Belgium finalist Kedist Deltour traded misery in Ethiopia for life full of opportunities: “I have achieved everything in this country. Now I want to represent it ”

“I have a new life”, her father said when he dropped Kedist Deltour in an Ethiopian orphanage. Right after her mother died of cancer. She was barely nine, and lost. Today, the gorgeous East Flemish woman is 23, has a permanent job as a hairdresser and has a chance to win the Miss Belgium 2021 crown. “All because a warm Belgian family wanted to adopt me. I have achieved everything in this country, now I want to represent it. ”

The grandmothers' long struggle for their kidnapped grandchildren

They were kidnapped, tortured and illegally adopted: During the dictatorship, the Argentine military committed crimes against hundreds of children and babies of critics of the regime. Many grandmothers are still looking for their grandchildren - with success.

Javier Matías Darroux Mijalchuk was long suspected of being the child of those who had disappeared - on his adoption papers it was noted that he was found as a baby in 1977 near the ESMA naval school in Buenos Aires , the largest torture center of the Argentine military dictatorship.

DISPLAY

When he turned to the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo organization, a DNA test in 2019 confirmed his true origin: at the age of 40, he met his relatives for the first time, who had reported the child as missing and had provided genetic samples themselves. Darroux Mijalchuk's biological parents were kidnapped by the military and probably murdered.

Around 30,000 students, activists and other regime critics were kidnapped and murdered during the military dictatorship in Argentina from 1976 to 1983. They were tortured, then partly drugged and handcuffed, thrown from airplanes into the Río de la Plata or into the sea, others shot and buried in mass graves. The military also abducted children and raised babies born in torture centers or given them to families loyal to the regime.

Christine Ockrent marâtre, Bernard Kouchner distant : Camille Kouchner acide

Christine Ockrent marâtre, Bernard Kouchner distant : Camille Kouchner acide

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Christine Ockrent marâtre, Bernard Kouchner distant : Camille Kouchner acide

Camille Kouchner a accusé le politologue Olivier Duhamel, son beau-père, d’inceste sur son frère jumeau dans son ouvrage La Familia Grande, qui paraîtra ce jeudi 7 janvier. La juriste aurait également brossé le portrait peu flatteur de son père et de sa belle-mère, Bernard Kouchner et Christine Ockrent.

Soorien (34) feels pain and sorrow due to adoption: 'They said: you should be grateful'

“Do I belong here in the Netherlands? And what would it have been like if I had stayed in South Korea? ” Soorien Zeldenrust from Zwolle has these questions in her stomach. When she was three months old, she was adopted from the Asian country. “A lot of people around me said, 'You should be grateful, you are kind of saved.' Many people see adoption as a kind of fairytale, but I just didn't have that. ” Now, as an adoption coach, Soorien helps people with the same experience as her.

She has no memories of South Korea when she came to the Netherlands. Logical, because Soorien was only three months old when she arrived at Schiphol. Her adoptive parents picked her up. “The only thing that knows is that my body does have memories. I don't have an image, but I do have a feeling ”, she says.

Love sickness

Soorien, now 34 years old, does not feel completely understood. Despite having a good time with her adoptive parents, she feels pain and sadness. “I sometimes compare it to a serious heartbreak or when you lose someone. The advantage of that is that you know the one, but I don't know the one I lost. It hurts me a lot. You experience that pain in your body. I cannot trace who I miss or where exactly the feeling comes from. ”

Soorien thinks the feeling is mainly caused by her adoption at a young age. “It has also been proven that children have a great need for safety from their parents, especially during the first few months and years. I never had that safety at a young age. I was taken away from my mother after about ten days. As a result, my body went into a certain survival mode, ”she says. When she was three months old, she arrived in the Netherlands.

Rigid adoption rules add to woes of prospective parents

KOCHI: In addition to the challenges posed by the pandemic, the state is struggling to alleviate the concerns of the prospective parents in the backdrop of rigid rules set by the Centre. Biju Prabhakar, chairman of the State Adoption Resource Agency (SARA), told TNIE that the pan-India platform for adoption — CARINGS (Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System), introduced by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) — doesn’t give much choice to parents to adopt kids from the same state.

“We wrote to the ministry multiple times about this. A Keralite cannot adopt a child belonging to Manipur because of the physical difference. Likewise, a North Indian may not prefer to adopt a child from South India. Hence, they should give the applicants first preference to adopt a child belonging to their respective states,” said Biju.

He added that rigid rules would make people want to bypass the procedure, increasing malpractices. “For a child, every day is valuable. There are several cases when the parents are no more and the surviving parent is not interested in keeping the child. Such children are not treated legally free for adoption. The result being that the child is denied care and shelter,” said Biju.He added that the stigma surrounding adoption is yet another issue. “In other countries, people feel proud about adopting children and the society appreciates them. But here, prospective parents are usually not very comfortable.”

The Centre had also made a move to enable district collectors, instead of family courts, to take the call on children. “Institutional care is the last resort. In Kerala, some institutions do it for commercial gain. We had shut down multiple institutions because of such malpractices. They are raising funds from other countries, which is unethical. This is why deinstitutionalisation is being pushed. We are exploring foster care and adoption and trying to keep the children at their own homes by giving necessary funding to custodians,” he added.

in a nutshell

EXPERT IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER SELECTION

SERA ROMANIA Foundation , as a partner in the project: REDUCING RISK FOR institutionalization of children through innovative Bucharest region - COD SMIS 2014+: 129 446 , recruiting expert implementation (P) partner (occupation code - 242 104 responsible process) for the activities corresponding to the partner in the aforementioned project.

General attributions:

Ensures the technical implementation of sub-activity A 3.2 - Implementation of measures that support the deinstitutionalization and provision of services at the community level by providing financial support to prevent the separation of the child from his family / institutionalization

Specific conditions for filling the available position:

Participates in the elaboration of the procedure for granting subsidies for the prevention of the separation of the child from his / her family, within A 3.2 .;

EXPERT IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER SELECTION

SERA ROMANIA Foundation , as a partner in the project: REDUCING RISK FOR institutionalization of children through innovative Bucharest region - COD SMIS 2014+: 129 446 , recruiting expert implementation (P) partner (occupation code - 242 104 responsible process) for the activities corresponding to the partner in the aforementioned project.

General attributions:

Ensures the technical implementation of sub-activity A 3.2 - Implementation of measures that support the deinstitutionalization and provision of services at the community level by providing financial support to prevent the separation of the child from his family / institutionalization

Specific conditions for filling the available position:

Participates in the elaboration of the procedure for granting subsidies for the prevention of the separation of the child from his / her family, within A 3.2 .;

Quest for roots drives Carol Peters D'Souza on mission (im)possible?

In the last few years many countries have voiced their concerns over inter-country adoption prevalent in most South Asian countries including India. Many countries including China, Russia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, South Korea etc., have banned adoption after instances of abuse of the adopted children were reported. In recent years many adoptee adults have started talking openly about the emotional trauma they undergo due to the sudden change of physical, linguistic and social environment at a young age due to adoption. There is a surge in the number of adoptees who go the birth of their countries in search of their biological parents. A few have succeeded in reuniting with their original parents whereas for a majority the search has proved to be a futile exercise.

One such adoptee who has been frantically trying to find her roots in India is Carol Peters ‘Carol D'Souza’ (Original name Carol Fonseca), a citizen of Belgium. Carol, who is now 53, has made four trips to India in her quest to locate her biological parents and to connect with the country of her birth. Her first trip was in 1998 and the fourth one was in 2018 and it has been like ‘so near yet too far’ in her pursuit of finding her biological parents. In 2009, she had visited India with her husband and two daughters to locate her biological parents and also to acquaint her family with the country of birth.

Despite her success in getting some vital clues in the last 20 years Carol is still far away from her mission. However, she isn’t giving up yet, this is my strength. Carol who is polio affected and suffers from many other ailments wants to come to India again despite her failing health to with the fond hope that she will succeed in her mission. “It was a painful experience for me in my new home in a new environment where I felt totally alienated. I wanted to know who my biological mother is and wanted to connect to connect with my roots and my culture. I wanted to find out why I was given away to the orphanage,” says Carol during the long telephonic conversation I had with her. After listening to her tale, I could realise that she went through a harrowing experience as an adoptee.

Uprooted and Alienated

Carol’s adoption story and her subsequent efforts to find her parents and get back to her roots make an interesting reading. She was born in Mumbai on December 2, 1967. Within four days of her birth she was admitted into St Joseph’s Home & Nursery, an orphanage located in Byculla (Agripada), Mumbai. She had poliomyelitis when she was 2.5-years-old. On October 7, 1974 when she was 7 years, she was adopted by Marcel Peters of Belgium. However, it wasn’t a happy ending to her story. She was unable to cope with the sudden change of the physical, linguistic and social milieu at such a young age. She says she felt out of place in her foster family. This traumatic experience was the trigger that resolved her to know more about her past and the circumstances that orphaned her.