Adoption tourism to Sri Lanka

During the early 1980s, I was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka. No adoption organization was involved in the mediation of the adoption. I was adopted privately or informally by my Swedish adoptive parents.

My adoptive mother's brother worked in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka and conveyed the contact between my adoptive parents and a local couple who handled overseas adoptions. The couple found children for tourists who wanted to adopt and assist with the legalization of the adoption. They facilitated the adoption process and realized thousands of charter tourists' family formation projects.

The fact that Swedish charter tourists adopted informally during this time has been discussed and accounted for in several contexts in both Sweden and Sri Lanka. A Swedish social worker who has reasoned about a reason why Swedes adopted informally means that the waiting times for adopting were long in Sweden. In the late 1970s, for example, an adoption organization had waiting times of 3-4 years. Hence, the social worker believes that it became understandable that those who wanted to become adoptive parents chose informal ways to form their family.

The first so-called long-haul flights from Sweden went to Sri Lanka and the Gambia as early as 1971. The countries were marketed as relatively cheap destinations far away from Sweden. The marketing was aimed at Swedes who were at a normal income level with capital to spend and time to spare for a trip.

In one case, the accused women had promised a victim to make arrangements for meeting her son whenever she wished, the police officer said.

MUMBAI: Police Monday claimed to have busted a baby-selling racket in Mumbai with the arrest of five persons, including four women, who were allegedly involved in selling children for Rs 2 lakh to Rs 4 lakh each under the garb of adoption.

The Crime Branch of the city police busted the thriving racket late last week, an officer said. Acting on specific information, Unit 6 of the Crime Branch raided a house at Sathe Nagar in Mankhurd and picked up a woman for questioning, said Akbar Pathan, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detection-1).

On information provided by her, the police detained two more women from the same area who were allegedly involved in the baby-selling ring, he said.

The role of another woman came to light later, he said. Accordingly to the police, these women would approach new mothers from economically weaker sections and offer to facilitate "adoption" of their newborn babies for a price that ranged from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 4 lakh each child, he said.

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In the early 1980s, I was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka. No adoption organization was involved in the mediation of the adoption. I was adopted privately or informally by my Swedish adoptive parents.

My adoptive mother's brother worked in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka and mediated the contact between my adoptive parents and a local couple who handled adoptions abroad. The couple found children for tourists who wanted to adopt and assisted with the legalization of the adoption. They facilitated the adoption process and realized the family formation projects of thousands of charter tourists.

That Swedish charter tourists in particular adopted informally during this time has been discussed and reported in several contexts in both Sweden and Sri Lanka. A Swedish social worker who has reasoned about a reason why Swedes adopted informally believes that the waiting times for adoption were long in Sweden. In the late 1970s, for example, an adoption organization had waiting times of 3-4 years. From this, the social worker believes that it became understandable that those who wanted to become adoptive parents chose informal paths to form their family.

The first so-called long-haul flights from Sweden went to Sri Lanka and Gambia as early as 1971. The countries were marketed as relatively cheap destinations far away in relation to Sweden. The marketing was aimed at Swedes who were at a normal income level with capital to spend and time to spare for a trip.

The tour operators 'travel catalogs offer an opportunity to get closer to a motive for many Swedish charter tourists adopting children during their holiday stay in Sri Lanka and an understanding of the Swedish tourists' expectations of the country. One theme that went through the marketing was that Sri Lanka was presented as different in comparison with Sweden.

The process for adoption has been on for last six months.

Born in Barabanki, abandoned in Lucknow, he will now be raised in Spain.

Meet this nine-year-old boy who had to spend two years of his childhood at a shelter home in Lucknow after his parents expired due to some illness in 2017.

“He was abandoned in a train to Lucknow by his uncle. They did not want to keep the child after the death of his parents. He was rescued by child rights authorities at Lucknow railway station,” said an official.

Two years on, the child has found a new family.

According to the data presented by Irani, 6,971 orphaned and abandoned children, including 3,990 girls, are available for adoption in 488 specialised adoption agencies across the country.

ccording to ministry of women and child development, about 8,677 children, including 5,033 girls, are available for adoption at child care institutions and specialised adoption agencies across the country right now.

Even though so many parents are not able to have their own kids, adopting is still considered an uncomfortable taboo in India

In reply to a Lok Sabha query, WCD Minister Smriti Irani presented data of the state-wise number of children available for adoption at child care institutions (CCIs) and specialised adoption agencies (SAAs) across the country.

According to the data presented by Irani, 6,971 orphaned and abandoned children, including 3,990 girls, are available for adoption in 488 specialised adoption agencies across the country.

Those who violate the rights of children deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law

It is a grim truth that when it comes to sexual exploitation, no child is immune.

Child rights activists have pointed out again and again that while there are laws and policies in the country designed to protect children, implementation continues to lag behind, leaving many children vulnerable as a result.

Statistics of abuse, when it comes to children, are notoriously unreliable, because they do not speak to the whole picture -- a vast number of incidents simply go unreported and unnoticed.

Of all groups of people, children are the ones most in need of legal and institutional protection, and needless to say, ours is failing them badly.

Children were made to believe they had been sexually abused and were sold to foster parents

Italian police have arrested 18 people, including a mayor, doctors and social workers, for allegedly brainwashing vulnerable children into thinking their parents had abused them so they could then be sold to foster parents.

Police in the northern city of Reggio Emilia made the arrests after an investigation, started in 2018, revealed an alleged network of carers who used methods including electroshock to make the children believe they had been sexually abused.

The network then allegedly gave the children to foster families in exchange for cash, while keeping gifts and letters sent to the children by their real parents hidden in a warehouse that was discovered by police.

The alleged abuse was reported by Italian media and confirmed to AFP by police in Bibbiano, near Reggio Emilia, on Thursday.

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A Perth couple who were accused of abusing their adopted daughter and making her sleep in a shipping container have been found guilty by a jury.

After a 10-day trial, the jury retired to deliberate on Thursday and returned with a guilty verdict late on Friday afternoon.

The couple were found guilty on two separate charges of deprivation of liberty, and having control and care of a child and engaging in conduct that could result in the child’s suffering.

The guilty verdict comes after the jury heard the girl, who along with her parents cannot be identified for legal reasons, told a child protection worker her adoptive parents beat her with a metal pipe and tennis racket and cut her hair off.

The girl said on more than one occasion, her mother dragged her out of the house and beat her with a metal pipe.