A bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Dr Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud issued notice to the Centre on the petition filed by the The Temple of Healing through its secretary Piyush Saxena.

The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre after hearing a petition seeking leniency in the adoption modalities in the country.

A bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Dr Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud issued notice to the Centre on the petition filed by the The Temple of Healing through its secretary Piyush Saxena.

The Supreme Court issued notice to the Centre, after hearing q plea filed by The Temple of Healing seeking preparation of an Adoption scheme by Ministry of Women and Child development.

“The petition has merits and thereby we issue notice to the Central government in the issue. We will see and wait for the replies of the Centre,” the Supreme Court said.

The first child was brought to the child protection unit in June and the second child, after she was declared physically and discharged from the hospital, in July last year.

After losing their mother to Covid-19 minutes after their birth and then their father a few months later who refused to take care of them, two newborn girls saw another ray of hope after they were both adopted by a financially able couple.

It was in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic in June last year when a woman in labour tested positive for Covid-19, according to sources in Chandigarh’s child protection unit. Right after she gave birth to twins, she died

from the infection.

“One of the twins was slightly underweight and was kept under observation in the hospital; the second child was handed over to the father. He took the child home and then told the child protection unit that he could raise the child because he was a daily wager and cannot afford to raise her. He also said that since his wife was no more and he was alone, he didn’t want the child,” an official stated after a post-adoption follow-up.

People whose adoption did not go well and who want to investigate where their roots lie in their country of origin can receive financial support for this. But they only receive a subsidy for these so-called roots trips if they make them in a group. Minister Franc Weerwind for Legal Protection does not intend to give money for individual trips, he said during a debate.

He wants the subsidy scheme to come into effect by October at the latest. Interest groups can submit project proposals for this. According to the minister, these searches will contain many common elements and questions, such as the role of the embassy in the country in question and where to start a search. He thinks it is better that people make such a journey together so that they can support each other if necessary. As far as he is concerned, these are small groups of no more than five people. The PvdA, among others, disagrees and prefers personal support.

Central mediation organization

The House largely supports far-reaching changes to the adoption system that Weerwind is going to implement, such as the establishment of one central intermediary organisation. These are necessary because a lot has gone wrong with adoptions from abroad for years, a study revealed. Two years ago, intercountry adoption was suspended, because abuses still occurred then.

Weerwind is looking at which countries the Netherlands can enter into an adoption relationship with again. He won't say more about that until September. In any case, it must concern countries that have the same constitutional guarantees as the Netherlands. The minister mentioned Portugal, Peru, Colombia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as countries that are still being analyzed in more detail.

THE OIREACHTAS CHILDREN’S Committee has recommended that the Government scrap the six-month time limit in its planned redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes and county homes.

Under the current proposals, all mothers who spent time in an institution are eligible to apply for redress, but a person who spent time in an institution as a child is only eligible if they spent at least six months there.

The six-month rule was widely criticised when the details of the scheme were announced last November – with experts saying it did not consider “the impact of early trauma“.

In a significant development, the Committee has now formally intervened and called for the six-month rule to be scrapped.

David Kinsella, a survivor of St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home in Dublin and long-time campaigner, told The Journal he is “delighted” with the news and “hopes the Government will listen”.

A report by researchers from the Institute of History of the University of Bern was published on Thursday, pointing out the irregularities of the canton.

The canton of St. Gallen has done poorly in the face of irregular adoptions of Sri Lankan children in Switzerland. Its authorities have largely failed in the monitoring and application of the law between 1973 and 2002. The legal provisions have not been respected for any of the 85 children concerned, according to a report published Thursday.

Mandated by the St. Gallen government, researchers from the Institute of History at the University of Bern looked at documents available in the archives and compiled a digital file for each Sri Lankan child adopted in the canton. Their analysis shows that the cantonal and communal authorities of the time did not apply the directives in force.

50% of inconsistent birth certificates

A total of 40 birth certificates show inconsistencies. The children in question – most of them babies under six months old – did not have a legal representative. The nurturing bond with the adoptive parents was insufficiently monitored. Children have even been entrusted to married couples without sufficiently clarifying the reception conditions beforehand.

Forty-three older orphans and children in foster care from Colombia will visit the United States, and nine will stay in the DC region for five weeks.

Kidsave, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, works to help older kids in foster care and orphanages find families and lasting connections with caring adults. Summer Miracles, Kidsave’s international hosting program, brings children who have little chance of finding an adoptive family in their home country to the United States.

The goal of the hosting program is to find these older children a forever home. Since 1999, 80% of the children who traveled with Summer Miracles have found adoptive families, according to Kidsave. The ages of the kids traveling this summer range from 9-16.

Virginia takes first place in the country for the worst percent of children who age out of foster care without being adopted, according to the Children’s Home Society of Virginia, a non-profit adoption service. According to Washington state-based Partners For Our Children, teenagers account for less than 10% of all adoptions, leaving many older foster care and orphanage children without a home or family and leaving them vulnerable as they enter adulthood. This age range is at great risk for homelessness and unemployment, and many fall victims to crime, trafficking and incarceration, according to Kidsave.

Mary Buelow and Nate Messer are Loudoun County residents who are hosting siblings, 11-year-old Krista and 13-year-old Jean. Kidsave describes Krista as a committed student with an upbeat attitude, and Jean as a passionate, charismatic, and responsible teenager.

Adoption laws need to be overhauled to stop M?ori tamariki being “severed” from their birth family and culture, experts say.

The Government is seeking feedback on proposed options for a reformation of the adoption system.

New Zealand’s adoption laws are 67 years old and were ratified in the Adoption Act 1955.

Options in the proposed system would include giving adopted people access to their adoption records at any age, legal recognition of wh?ngai (a traditional method of open adoption to relatives) and post-adoption contact agreements.

Canterbury University’s Dr Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, a senior lecturer in M?ori health and wellbeing, said a reformed adoption system was important for M?ori.

All of their married life, Andrew and Bridget Olsen have dreamed of having four kids. They envisioned for themselves a family of both adopted and biological children.

Now, 15 years into their marriage, they are closing in on their goal. The couple adopted at birth their daughters Halley, 11, and Mady, 9, and have their biological son, Layne, 7. The Mankato area couple has been on an adoption waiting list for their fourth child for 2½ years.

“Our vision was to have a beautiful family, and that’s what we have,” Andrew said.

The couple went through Catholic Charities of Southern Minnesota for Halley’s and Mady’s adoptions, and are using the agency again for their fourth child. They are one of 10 families on a waiting list for adoption, with more families wanting to adopt than there are babies to adopt.

Catholic Charities of Southern Minnesota specializes in domestic infant adoptions and also does home studies for international adoptions.

More than 800 children have died in state-run specialised adoption agencies since 2018, according to official data. Of these, most are below two years old, officials said, painting a tragic picture of neglect.

The main reason for the fatalities, they explained, is “unsafe abandonment”, including children being found with dog bites and so vulnerable they can’t be saved.

Breaking up the numbers, the Central Adoption Resources Authority (CARA) said in response to multiple RTIs filed by PTI that 118 children, 104 of them below two, died in state and Central Government-run agencies in 2021-22.

In 2020-21, the number was 169 and in 2019-20 it was 281. In 2018-19, 251 children died in the agencies, according to the data.

Of the total 819 children, 481 were girls and 129 those with special needs, defined as those who have some type of disability and require exceptional care and extra help.

June 1, 2022 - Exactly 60 years after the independence of Rwanda and Burundi, the three-part documentary series Metissen of Belgium tells the disconcerting history of more than 300 metis from the Belgian colonial period in Rwanda.

The makers of the series do this on the basis of the life stories of three of them: Jaak, Paul and Jacqueline.

As illegitimate children of a white father and a black mother, they were taken from their mother by the Belgian government and placed in Save's boarding school in Rwanda. Just before independence, they also had to leave there and were rushed to Belgium.

There they ended up uprooted and traumatized in an adoptive family or an orphanage. They were events that marked the rest of their lives. It was only in 2015 that they gained access to their official file and were able to search for their roots.

A production by The Chinese for Canvas.