Mismatch of expectations leads to traumatic parting with parents; Centre launches remedial plan.

Nine-year old Arun (name changed) was returned by three families between 2015 and 2019 after he spent varying periods — four months to nearly two years — with them as either their adopted son or soon-to-be adopted son. Now, the government’s apex adoption body has stopped any further attempts at placing him with a family so he can be counselled and healed of the trauma caused by multiple rejections.

The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has recorded 246 instances of disruption over a period of five years between 2014-15 and 2018-19, which translates into six in 400 children being returned at an advanced stage of adoption. On an average there are 4,000 legal adoptions annually within and from India, as per official data. With the number of such cases showing a recent increase, CARA has begun a nationwide capacity building programme for social workers who help assess the suitability of the adoptive family and prepare a child for a new home.

CARA’s CEO, Lt. Col. Deepak Kumar, says, “This is not a happy situation. Children returning to the institution after being placed with a family face rejection and are scarred for a long time. In order to check this trend we formed a sub-committee of experts last year who travelled to different States to help us build capacity among social workers. A media report cited that there were 1,100 disruptions over the last five years, which is incorrect, as the correct figure is 246. We need to understand the difference between parents withdrawing from the adoption process for various reasons after accepting the profile of a child, and those who return the child after taking them in pre-adoption foster care, which is called disruption. While the former is about helping parents take an informed decision on adoption, the latter is completely detrimental to the best interests of the child.”

He adds that there have also been 10 dissolutions since 2015 when CARA underwent a massive reform. In such cases, parents return the child after they have received the adoption order from a court, which can take a year, if not more.

President of the Adoption Authority: We will resume the steps for international adoptions because it gives children with disabilities or other ethnicities a chance. Families in Romania resort to adoption only if they cannot have biological children

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We will resume the steps for international adoptions, because they offer a chance to a family of children with disabilities or other ethnicities in the protection system, in the context in which the Romanian families do not adopt such children, said the president of the National Authority for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Children and Adoptions (ANDPDCA), M?d?lina Turza, in an interview with Agerpres.

Turza said she is considering more measures regarding adoptions: simplifying the procedure for internal adoptions, evaluating case managers, because it is a problem with opening adoption files, and will launch an adoption promotion campaign.

"The families of Romanians who adopt children are those who cannot have children naturally, mostly. I think this story of adoption must be popularized among people. I do not think Romanians necessarily refuse to adopt, I believe that there is simply not a very strong awareness of this option and I think that a campaign in this sense is very useful ”, said M?d?lina Turza.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal appellate judges closely questioned attorneys for the government and Native American tribes Wednesday over whether a law meant to preserve Native American families and culture unconstitutionally intrudes into state adoption issues.

It was the second time in a year that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was considering the future of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. A three-judge panel of the appellate court upheld the act in August in a 2-1 ruling.

Opponents of the law — including non-native families who have tried to adopt American Indian children — sought and got a full court re-hearing. Sixteen judges heard the latest arguments.

Aside from strictly legal issues, the case sparks strong emotions. Matthew McGill, representing families challenging the law, told the court that one set of would-be adoptive parents had a child “pried out of their arms because she was not an Indian.”

Outside the courthouse, Rosa Soto Alvarez, of Tuscon, Arizona, held onto the flag of the Pascua Yaqui tribe. She said the ICWA helped her and her three siblings get adopted by a Native American family after her mother’s suicide when she was 11.

The changing landscape of international adoption: Where we’ve been and where we’re going

Bethany spearheads efforts to change the emphasis from bringing children to the U.S. to instead finding adoptive homes for children in their home countries.

Kristi Gleason, Vice President of Global Programs

January 21, 2020

In 1982, Bethany Christian Services assumed responsibility for the international adoption program that had been run by the State of Michigan, seeking American families for orphaned or abandoned children from South Korea. Throughout our nearly 40-year history with international adoption, nearly 15,000 children have found a home with safe and loving families.

A group of donor-conceived and surrogate-born people have spoken out at the UN in a renewed push to improve the rights of access to biological information.

Giselle Newton, a PhD research student at UNSW, is one of 16 donor-conceived and surrogate-born people from around the world who are leading a renewed push to change laws which govern their access to information about their genetic heritage.

For the first time, the group told their own stories at a historic visit to the United Nations to mark the 30-year anniversary of the Convention for the Rights of the Child in Geneva on November 19.

They presented their five recommendations* to the Human Rights High Commissioner Michele Bachelet, and received a standing ovation from the audience.

“We highlighted the consequences of ignoring the voices of those most affected by these practices,” Ms Newton says. “Donor-conceived people are experts on this issue and our voices need to be listened to and acted upon.”

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The Orban government wants to make the foundation "The Orphanage Mogul of Romania's Orphans" of public utility. The foundation, accused in a documentary of experiments on children in Romania

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The government has written to directors of children’s services across England urging them to prioritise adoption for children in the care system and to ensure that prospective adopters are not turned away when they are actually eligible.

Ministers say they want a renewed focus on adoption from all local authorities and have called on councils to review their practices following a drop in the number of assessments recommending adoption as the best option for a vulnerable child.

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Francois de Combret and the Orphans of Romania - millions of euros at stake! Where do all the mysterious roads of Romanian adoptions lead: Pizza Gate, Organ Trafficking, Satanic Sacrifices?

Most of the false images around Romania come from a lobby that desperately wants to reopen Romania. One of the key figures is Francois de Combret, the founder of the aforementioned NGO, SERA and a member of the Renault board.

Although he is certainly not the only player on the field. I think his actions are the most disturbing. Not only that, he is also a very influential man, with high positions in some of the largest French companies and political connections both in the French government and in the European Parliament.

His motivations are clear to me, the rest remains to understand what you are talking about. He presents three naked Romanian boys in a bath with a Masonic background. I wonder where this photo was taken. The bath certainly does not seem to be found in a Romanian orphanage. I also wonder who took this photo.

Many European organizations involved in a strong lobby to resume international adoptions