In Denmark, the state is taking more and more strict action in what it sees as the interests of the child. Those who are not deemed fit to be parents are even told during pregnancy that their children will be forcibly adopted.

To avoid losing their children, many Danish parents are fleeing to nearby countries, especially to the German border city of Flensburg. There, we meet Hanne - a mother of four children, three of whom have already been taken into care by Danish authorities - and Kenneth, who is trying to make a new life in Flensburg with his eight-year-old son. A report by Gunnar Köhne.

RIBBON -The fifteenth edition of the Antwerp Pride will start on Wednesday. For Lintenaar Tim Küsters, who played in the final of Mr. Gay Belgium stands, promises to be busy days and is especially committed to the people from its community who want to have children.

“Wednesday I will be present at the opening party and during the Antwerp Pride parade on Saturday we will be on one of the cars with all the finalists to drive through the city. Finally, I'm going to the Pride Village on Sunday," says Tim.

With the different presences, Tim naturally wants to put his final place in the spotlight, but he wants to bring even more attention. “During Mr. Gay Belgium we can commit ourselves around a theme of our own choice. I do this for the LGBTQIA+ community with a desire to have children. My partner Tim has two children from a previous relationship. So basically my wish to have children has been fulfilled. I am lucky that Nick and Lissa accepted me very quickly. Despite me coming into their lives early in their teens, they handled this pretty well. Their father was before me with a woman.”

But Tim wants every same-sex couple to enjoy this childhood bliss. “In May 2006, the legislation on adoption for same-sex couples was approved in Belgium. We are 2022 and things are not going smoothly at all. For example, there are only nineteen countries where adoption is possible for these couples. There is no law at all about surrogacy. I hope to draw more attention to this theme so that it is discussed in the media and even in education, for example. It should be easier for future generations in our community to realize their wish to have children. Now it is a difficult search for the possibilities.”

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A man is about to leave for China for the first time . In the hall of Zaventem airport he meets the eight other Belgians with whom he will spend the next two weeks. In total six families flew to Beijing at the end of July 1994.

After a day's layover, they leave again, this time to Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in the south of the country. From Changsha, the group traveled by bus to the countryside. Since his departure from Brussels, the man has filmed everything, including the endless fields and the kilometers of journeys through desolate landscapes.

After dropping off their belongings at the hotel and completing some administrative formalities at the notary, the families finally arrive at the Yueyang orphanage. The place has faded, the paint is peeling off the walls. From the bus, the man films the arrival in the courtyard of the building, as well as the waiting that follows. Youqine, then eight months old, is finally introduced to him and she crawls into his arms for the first time. The nannies from the orphanage then bring the other children. Six girls were adopted that day. Youqine's father was one of the first Belgians to adopt a child from China.

In 2017, nearly a quarter of a century later, time and memory erased many things, but the records of these adoptive families have remained completely intact. For Youqine, the period of rejection towards her country of origin has come to an end, and a time of questions seems to have come: "For years I had a conflicted relationship with China, I did not want to return at all. I was terrified of it, but when I 23, I instinctively felt I was ready, I think it's something mature, wanting to know where you are in your life."

Youqine Lefèvre had just graduated from the École Supérieure d'Arts Appliqués in Vevey, Switzerland. She studied photography there - after obtaining a bachelor's degree at the École de Recherche Graphique (ERG) in Brussels. It has also been a while since she " Far from home", a series about children placed in a home in the Swiss mountains and separated from their parents for various reasons. After her first major project, Youqine feels ready to embark on a new, more personal project. The images that her father made the basis of this project in 1994. It is the end of October 2017, and now it is her turn to leave for China for the first time.As she gets on the plane, Youqine realizes that with this future photo project she mainly looking for meaning.

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A Georgia couple has been charged with using their two adopted children to record child pornography, police said.

Walton County Sheriff’s Office raided a home in Loganville July 27 on reports that a man there was downloading child porn.

After interviewing the suspect, who was not identified, police said they learned there was another suspect in the county who was “producing homemade child sexual abuse material with at least one child who lived in the home,” the sheriff’s office said Thursday.

Around 11:30 p.m. that same night, executed a search warrant in Oxford at the home of William Dale Zulock, 32, and Zachary Jacoby Zulock, 35.

Walton County’s Division of Family and Child Services joined deputies in responding to the home to help protect the two brothers who lived there.

The Juvenile Justice Committee (JJC) of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday enquired about the alleged child trafficking and surrogacy racket in Eluru district.

The JJC, which took suo moto notice of the alleged sale of an infant in Pedavegi mandal in Eluru district, asked officials about the details of the case.

Principal Secretaries of the concerned departments, Eluru Deputy Superintendent of Police G.V.V.S. Pydeswara Rao and Two Town CI D.V. Ramana appeared before the JJC.

The JJC, while expressing concern over the alleged sale of babies, directed the officers to take steps to prevent recurrence of such incidents.

More than 200,000 Ukrainian children have been reported missing. Some have ended up in Russia, where they are put up for adoption.

Tatiana Tolstokorova, 56, was sure she recognized Nastya, her missing 3-year-old granddaughter, in a video posted on July 14 on social media by the presidential commissioner for children's rights in Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova. The video showed a large group of little children getting off of buses and being greeted by their new adoptive parents. Tolstokorova hadn’t seen Nastya since their hometown of Mariupol, in eastern Ukraine, was bombed four months ago.

“Thirteen little peas, in identical suits, were waiting for us at the porch of the foster home to go to Russia to be with foster moms and dads,” stated the caption on the video, posted on VKontakte, known as “the Russian Facebook.” “By the end of the week, 108 orphans from Donbass who received Russian citizenship will have parents.”

Tolstokorova was in shock.

“Dear Maria, my granddaughter is there, I recognized her,” Tolstokorova commented on the post. “For the love of all that is holy, give me my star!”

As a therapist for children who are being processed through the American immigration system, Cynthia Quintana has a routine that she repeats each time she meets a new patient in her office in Grand Rapids, Michigan: She calls the parents or closest relatives to let them know the child is safe and well cared for, and provides 24-hour contact information.

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This process usually plays out within hours of when the children arrive. Most are teens who have memorized or written down their relatives’ phone numbers in notebooks they carried with them across the border. By the time of that initial call, their families are typically worried, waiting anxiously for news after having—in an act of desperation—sent their children into another country alone in pursuit of safety and the hope of a future.

But in the summer of 2017, Quintana encountered a curious case. A 3-year-old Guatemalan boy with a toothy smile and bowl-cut black hair sat down at her desk. He was far too little to have made the journey on his own. He had no phone numbers with him, and when she asked where he was headed or whom he’d been with, the boy stared back blankly. Quintana scoured his file for more information but found nothing. She asked for help from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, who came back several days later with something unusual: information indicating that the boy’s father was in federal custody.

At their next session, the boy squirmed in his chair as Quintana dialed the detention center, getting his father on the line. At first the dad was quiet, she told me. “Finally we said, ‘Your child is here. He can hear you. You can speak now.’ And you could just tell that his voice was breaking—he couldn’t.”

Elenore was born in 1970 to an unmarried woman and adopted four days later by UK family. She recently traced her mother to Kildare and has established a relationship with her.

“It’s not for everyone. But though I felt loved my entire life, I needed to know where I came from. I wanted to understand the circumstances of my adoption’.

Elenore is one of hundreds of Irish people who were sent abroad for adoption when they were babies as a result of hostility towards unmarried mothers. Now new legislation means many more are now entitled to unrestricted access to their official documents, including birth certificates, for the first time.

The Adoption Authority of Ireland is now managing the database established by the new Birth Information and Tracing act. The new law relates to all those born to parents within Ireland and adopted at home or abroad since the foundation of the state 100 years ago.

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Summer evening conversation Habtamu de Hoop (PvdA), a Frisian farmer's son born in Addis Ababa, is the youngest member of parliament. Kees van der Staaij (SGP), who adopted his two children from Colombia, the longest serving. "I thought your maiden speech was the best of this class."

SGP'er Kees van der Staaij gave a speech about the book Van Strange Smetten Vrij at secondary school in Amersfoort in the early eighties.about the Center Party. He still remembers the sentence with which he ended: "The Center Party will rise, shine and sink." He had grabbed a stack of party flyers and tossed them in the trash. His teacher was not impressed. He thought it was "populist". Habtamu de Hoop of the PvdA took part in a debate competition in the fourth grade of the havo and it was his last turn to choose a political party. Only the PVV was left. “I put on a white wig and made the most provocative statements.” He won. After that, when he had "ghosted" a paper on Nietzsche for civics and nearly sat down, his teacher only wanted to help him with a good enough grade if he joined the debating club.

You might become a politician by accident, is the message of Habtamu de Hoop's story, with the ravioli with ricotta and lemon in the Potterhuis in The Hague. Kees van der Staaij says that he still takes "attributes" with him to attract attention – if an important debate in the House of Representatives takes a long time and he and his small party only get the floor when one of the last gets the floor. “At school, I once came into the classroom on crutches to give a talk about the disabled.”

At the end of the afternoon Kees van der Staaij was the first to enter the seventeenth-century Potterhuis, on the Dunne Bierkade in The Hague. This is where Paulus Potter painted his Bull, Jan Steen lived there with his family. Snacks are available in the library, but Van der Staaij only has eyes for the books. “Abraham Kuyper! It's insane what that man wrote!"

He also pulls out Gentlemen of Tea from Hella Haasse. That novel taught him a lesson, he says. “People can get sour without realizing it. Dissatisfaction can just creep into your life, being happy is not automatic. You have to keep weeding your garden.”