Ellen Meijer head of Youth at JenV

With effect from 1 January 2020, Ellen Meijer will become Head of Youth at the Sanctions Application and Youth Directorate at the Ministry of Justice and Security.

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E. (Ellen) Meijer is currently the quartermaster of the Youth Prevention Extremism and Polarization Platform at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. Before that, she held various management positions within the youth domain, including the Transition and Transformation Manager of the Youth Act and director of the International Center at the Netherlands Youth Institute.

Ellen Meijer studied Social Geography of developing countries.

A woman who was adopted at birth into years of abuse has shared her story in the hope that no children will ever have the childhood she did.

During the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care hearing, Dallas Pickering told of the physical, sexual, emotional abuse and neglect she experienced, and how nobody had ever been held to account.

Pickering was put into a "white, middle-class P?keh?" family after her 16-year-old P?keh? mother gave birth, in a closed stranger adoption.

Her father, recorded as having "brown eyes" and a "light olive complexion", never knew of her existence.

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DailyMailTV's investigation into the case of the Ukrainian 'dwarf' adopted by an American couple has led to the discovery of her birth mother

The adoptive parents of Natalia Barnett - Kristine and Michael Barnett - have been charged with neglect for moving to Canada without her

They claim that Natalia is actually a grown up with violent tendencies pretending to be a child because of a severe psychiatric illness

But Anna Volodymyrivna Gava, 40, from the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, tells DailyMailTV she had to put Natalia up for adoption 16 years ago due to her condition

The cradle baby scheme was first started in Tamil Nadu, and there are different versions of it in effect across the country.

On October 28, children coming to a madrassa in Thiruvannur in Kozhikode, Kerala found something odd. Around 8.30 am, they noticed along with the slippers outside the mosque, a small bundle. It turned out to be a baby girl – just four days old. There was a note too: “Please name the child as you wish. Please look after this infant considering her a gift from Allah. We are giving back what Allah gave us, to his abode. Do give the child BCG, Polio and Hepatitis B vaccination.”

A week since, the mother of the child has been identified – a 21-year-old woman, reportedly unmarried – and has been arrested. “The baby was shifted to a hospital for a few days, and once it was determined that she was in good health, we moved her to a government run home,” a source from the Kozhikode Child Welfare Committee told TNM.

But in a country where ‘cradle baby schemes’ exist – where the government promises to care for abandoned children and provides for mechanisms for parents who are unable to care for their children, why was the young woman arrested? And are such arrests common?

The answer, according to Child Welfare officials that TNM spoke to, lies in the manner in which parents choose to give up their children.

VADODARA: “For I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you, to give you hope and a future, declares the Lord” —

reads Jeremiah 29:11. This couldn’t have been more truer but for a six-year-old orphan, Krupali, who till now had the sishu gruh

in Vadodara as her home.

The girl child began a new chapter in her life in the New Year when she was adopted by an Italian couple. Krupali, who

authorities said, is a slow learner was shown photographs of her new home in Italy, where all the family members including grandparents were eagerly waiting to welcome the newest member.

Taina Adolfsson was adopted to Sweden as a six-year-old - and never became herself again.

In her column, she writes about how her experiences have made her, in principle, completely opposed to adoptions and that the image painted by adoptions is both false and beautifully painted.

I came to Sweden as a Finnish post-war child in 1949. I was six years old and my biological mother had died a year before of pulmonary tuberculosis.

My relatives in Finland had said that I would only stay over the summer and then return home to start first grade. That did not happen.

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MUMBAI: The fees that prospective parents pay to adopt a child is not subject to Goods and Services Tax, the Maharashtra

bench of the Authority for Advance Rulings has said.

AAR gave the ruling after agreeing with the argument of a recognised adoption agency from Nerul that children are not

“goods” and the agency does not provide any “services” to the prospective parents.

Indian couples (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-couples) interested in adopting a child must pay a fee of Rs

A warm family helps orphanage children cope with stress

Psychology With orphanage children growing up in a warm family, the disturbed stress reaction normalizes during puberty.

An unsettled stress response due to intense experiences in early life can recover during puberty. This is what American psychobiologists write this week in the scientific journal PNAS. The research suggests that in addition to early childhood there is also a sensitive period during puberty, during which the biological stress system can still normalize by growing up in a warm nest.

In people who grew up in an orphanage as a small child, the body reacts differently to exciting events at a later age than in people who spent their early years in a normal family. They produce less of the stress hormone cortisol at that time than usual, because their biological stress system, the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis), functions less well. This is evident from, among other things, previous studies into seriously neglected children who grew up in orphanages in Bucharest. Research on rats and macaques that were neglected by their mother also shows that there is a sensitive period in early childhood, when the stress system is formed.

Both too much and too little of the stress hormone cortisol has a bad effect on the immune system, the stress response and mental development.

Kazakhstan: Suspension of Intercountry Adoptions Reconfirmed

This notice updates previously-issued notices dated July 12, 2019 and June 16, 2017.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MOES), as intercountry adoption central authority, reconfirmed with the Department of State on October 22 that the existing suspension on intercountry adoptions between Kazakhstan and the United States remains in place, pending the submission of all outstanding post-adoption reports (PARs). MOES continues to issue certificates of authorization to Adoption Service Providers (ASPs), although the suspension applies to all U.S. ASPs.

Please submit outstanding PARs, which should be both apostilled and notarized, at your earliest convenience. The required content for PARs is discussed in the Department’s June 16, 2017 notice.

Originals can be sent to the address below: