MADURAI: A 36-year-old woman from a village near Checkanurani in Madurai district, who gave birth to her third child, a baby girl, on Tuesday, handed over the newborn to the child welfare committee (CWC), stating that she cannot raise the children due to her financial situation.

Her husband, a daily wage labourer, had died four months ago due to cardiac arrest. The woman, who is a farmhand, is staying in her parental house. Her other daughters are studying in Class IX and X.

CWC member B Pandiarajan said that the mother, soon after delivering the baby, informed the duty doctor at the Checkanurani primary health centre (PHC), Dr Divya that she was not in a position to raise her, and sought her help to admit her in a home.

The doctor immediately informed the officials concerned. Pandiarajan and district child protection officer A Ganesan visited the PHC and received the baby. She was handed over to an adoption home at Karumathur. Since it would be difficult for the woman to raise her other daughters as well, they promised to help her by admitting them in a home and to ensure their education in a decent school.

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Valsad police on Tuesday detained the biological parents of an infant, who was found abandoned in Febraury near a highway at Pardi taluka. The officials had carried out Covid-19 test and DNA test of both the accused. The infant is lodged at a children adoption home in Navsari.

On February 5, Pardi police station’s Retlav outpost police head constable received information about an infant found near the bridge on National Highway 48. The infant girl was admitted to Valsad Civil hospital.

The child was later shifted to Children Adoption centre at Khund village in Navsari district.

Police registered an offence against unidentified persons under IPC Section 317 and started a probe.

Four months later, Pardi police nabbed the child’s biological father, identified as Jatin Patel (22), a resident of Ambli village in Pardi taluka, on Monday. Jatin first denied his involvement in abandoning the infant girl, but later confessed to the crime, police said.

CHENNAI: The current crisis has stalled the adoption process in the state

and has left more than 2500 prospective parents, who have registered,

waiting and uncertain about the day they will get to meet and take their

children home. Officials from the department of social defence said that

those who have already been matched with children in adoption centres

In the far North East of England during the mid 1960's , my mother Wendy left her tiny mining village of Dipton, to live in as a student nurse at Newcastle General Hospital.

Early in 1966, my mother and father met at a party held for the medical faculty. He was a young Indian Muslim Doctor and Registrar at another major hospital in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Over time my parents became very fond of one another and they embarked on a secret romance.

My mother’s family were Christian, my father’s were Muslim and so my parents felt their time together should be hidden to avoid any chance of family disapproval. They sensed their love was forbidden but towards the close of 1967, my parents were so deeply in love and felt determined to marry.

My mother’s father refused to give his blessing for their marriage owing to my father’s nationality. His parents refused to offer their blessing owing to my mother’s nationality and quite suddenly, my father was sent for an immediate arranged marriage to his birth village in India.

On realising my father had gone, my mother was in a terrible state and heartbroken, they had lost one another. My mother didn't have a forwarding address for my father, their forced separation came as a devastating blow and within weeks following his disappearance, she discovered she was pregnant with me.

Au Mali, une ancienne magistrate continue de dénoncer des adoptions frauduleuses

Publié le : 15/06/2020 - 04:12

Modifié le : 15/06/2020 - 04:13

L'association Rayon de Soleil a organisé plus de 320 adoptions au Mali entre 1989 et 2001.

L'association Rayon de Soleil a organisé plus de 320 adoptions au Mali entre 1989 et 2001. REUTERS/Joe Penney

DCI-Liberia Wants GOL Investigate the Trafficking of 34 Children

By Hannah N. Geterminah -June 15, 2020046

Foday M. Kawah, Executive Director DCI-Liberia

Defence for Children International-Liberia (DCI-L), a child right advocacy group, has called on the government through the ministries of Justice and Labor to investigate 34 children trafficked from communities in Todee, Lower Montserrado County.

Foday M. Kawah, DCI-L Executive Director, at a press conference held in Monrovia, said DCI-Liberia during its preliminary investigation conducted in Todee communities including Zuana Town, Kpenibu Town, Dowee Town, Tokpalon Town, Gbeno Town, Juhag Town, Kaiyeah Town, Gbajah Town, Beabah Town, Nyehn town and Bona Fahn and came to a conclusion that 23 parents have been allegedly victimized by child trafficking.

Defence for Children International-Liberia (DCI-L), a child right advocacy group, has called on the government through the ministries of Justice and Labor to investigate 34 children trafficked from communities in Todee, Lower Montserrado County.

Foday M. Kawah, DCI-L Executive Director, at a press conference held in Monrovia, said DCI-Liberia during its preliminary investigation conducted in Todee communities including Zuana Town, Kpenibu Town, Dowee Town, Tokpalon Town, Gbeno Town, Juhag Town, Kaiyeah Town, Gbajah Town, Beabah Town, Nyehn town and Bona Fahn and came to a conclusion that 23 parents have been allegedly victimized by child trafficking.

Kawah, speaking on June 9, said the incident occurred ten years ago (2004-2009), during which 34 children were allegedly “abducted, smuggled and trafficked” from their parents and subsequently adopted by the West African Children Support Network (WACSN) without their consent.

He said out of a total of 34 children, there were 12 boys and 22 girls who are believed to be trafficked in the US and other parts of the world.

Kawah, therefore, is calling on the government of Liberia to investigate at the level of the Probate Court whether or not the biological parents of these children gave consent prior to adoption; ascertain whether these children were adopted with their known names and that the state party takes urgent measures to abolish informal adoptions and expedite the enactment of the Adoption Bill, as well as ratify the 1993 Hague Convention No. 33 on Protection of Children and Cooperation regarding Inter-country Adoption and the Proper implementation or enforcement of the Anti-Trafficking law.

Former nuns Sister Chantal (92) and Sister Angeli (81) worked at the Paulastichting in Oosterbeek, a home for unmarried mothers, in the late 1960s. Many of these mothers gave up their children. Like Ellen van Ree (69), who carried this trauma with her for the rest of her life. Fifty years later, she visits the nuns. How do they look back on what happened in their home?

This article was written byJenda Terpstra and Petra Vissers Published on June 13, 2020, 1:00 AM

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Ellen van Ree was sixteen years old and a "child of her time, with trendy clothes and spiky blond hair" when she became pregnant in 1967. Her parents refused to hear of it and  sent her to the Paula Foundation  in Oosterbeek. There, Ellen was housed, along with about 29 other unmarried girls, waiting to give birth. Half of them gave up their child for adoption. Ellen's parents also refused to let her keep it.

Mother and child belong together was the creed in 1956. But after the introduction of the adoption law, that principle disappeared. How could it be that thousands of women were separated from their children in ten years? 

It's August 1967, and in Oosterbeek, nestled in the green space on Nico Bovenweg, the new building of the Paula Foundation is opened. Here, in the coming years, hundreds of unmarried mothers will give birth, and just as many babies will spend their first months, or even years. The modern, new building is opened by psychiatrist Gribling.

His speech breathes a new era. In the past, he says, the guiding principle was: mother and child belong together. But "you will be aware," he continues, "that this principle has been completely abandoned, especially in the last ten years, for reasons so obvious that we can only wonder about its application now."

The adoption law has been in effect for eleven years, since 1956. That law was inspired by the desire of foster parents to also obtain legal parenthood over their foster children. At the time, this involved small numbers. The motto at the time was: mothers, no matter how disabled, must care for their babies. A principle that now holds true again.

The adoption law seems to have unintentionally created its own dynamic

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