Woman sues IVF clinic for wrongly implanting male - not female - embryo from her wife during IVF: Gave birth to son and likened having male fetus inside her to rape

Heather Wilhelhm-Routenberg and wife Robbie are suing CNY Fertility in Latham, New York

Robbie was originally meant to carry Heather's embryo, but miscarried

Heather then offered to carry Robbie's embryo, with the couple discovering they were expecting a boy at 15 weeks

Heather struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts during the pregnancy, and after giving birth

Dr. Cho's memoir about Korean War orphans, abandoned children will be published in English in May, shedding light on why they were sent overseas to new families

Retired pediatrician Cho Byung-guk, 89, came to understand why some ethnic Korean adoptees search tirelessly for their birth parents and strive to figure out why they were sent overseas to new families, while interacting with numerous adoptees during her five decades of work.

"Every year at Holt Ilsan, we had groups of visitors from overseas. They were adopted by parents mostly in the United States and Europe when they were babies, so most of them don't speak or read Korean," Cho told The Korea Times.

Once their stays ? which could be for days or weeks ? end, there is one thing many of these adoptees do: they buy Cho's 2009 memoir, which is written in Korean.

"Although they don't understand Korean, they purchased the book and took it home with the hope that some of their Korean friends or neighbors could help explain those stories," Cho said.

In Cambodia, Holt’s social work team has helped to develop three care alternatives for children growing up in institutional care — kinship care, foster care and, for the first time, a formal, ethical system of domestic adoption. In March 2021, the first child in Cambodia joined her adoptive family via this new process.

In May 2020, early in the COVID pandemic, a baby girl was born in a hospital in Cambodia. She was small — weighing just over 5 pounds — but her eyes were dark and lovely and shining with light.

A bright new life had just begun.

But for her mom, this was not a day of celebration. As she looked in the eyes of her newborn daughter, she faced a heartbreaking decision.

Unmarried, and separated from the baby’s father, she feared her family’s reaction if she came home with a child. In many communities in Cambodia, the stigma of single motherhood remains alive and well — shaming women for having a child outside of marriage. This newborn girl’s mom had managed to keep her pregnancy a secret from her family. And on the day her daughter was born, she decided to relinquish her parental rights.

NGOs are 'deeply alarmed' by applications pending from the US and Italy without adequate child protection measures in place

Cambodia will shortly resume child adoptions after a decade-long hiatus imposed amid controversy over allegations that not all infants were orphans and some were stolen.

The Social Affairs Ministry has confirmed adoptions are pending to the United States and Italy, raising the alarm among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) seeking child protection norms of international standards.

“We fear these decisions will lead to more families being irreparably torn apart by a poorly regulated system that has failed to protect children’s best interests in the past,” said rights group Licadho in a statement, adding it was “deeply alarmed.”

It said Cambodia sent 3,696 children abroad for adoption between 1998 and 2011 before suspending foreign adoptions following evidence of fraud and corruption.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has held that merely because a man happened to be a Muslim and governed by personal laws in various issues like adoption, he cannot be debarred from availing the rights conferred upon him by general and benevolent legislation.

The observations came while granting custody parole to an accused to visit the concerned officer in Nuh, Haryana, for signing the adoption papers. The public prosecutor had opposed the custody parole on the grounds that in Islam, adoption is legally not permissible. He had said that personal laws were applicable in issues related to adoption and that the very ground for custody parole was specious.

Advocate Qausar Khan, appearing for the accused, had argued that under personal laws, adoption was not permissible in Islam but under the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, even a Muslim is entitled to adopt a child and the rights of the accused cannot be nagged on the ground that he is facing trial in a case.

Additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana said, “I concur with the defence counsel that merely because the applicant/accused happens to be Muslim and governed by personal laws on various issues, he cannot be debarred from availing the rights conferred upon him by general and benevolent legislation like Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000.”

The court directed the jail superintendent to take the accused on custody parole to the office concerned on April 1 and make all necessary arrangements in this regard.

Imagine if there was someone out there in the world who was your mirror image.

Someone who looked exactly like you, but was a total stranger.

That’s how twin brothers George Skrzynecky and Lucian Poznanski lived their entire lives… as strangers.

The twins hail from Germany and were born in 1946 after their mother Elizabeth, who was a Polish, Catholic, was freed from a labor camp at the end of World War II, according to the BBC.

She became ill after giving birth and was unable to care for them so she had to give them up for adoption. The brothers were then sent to Poland and adopted into different homes.

The war in Ukraine is a disaster, especially for children who are already vulnerable because of a disability or because they live in an institution.

The war in Ukraine is a disaster, especially for children who are already vulnerable because of a disability or because they live in an institution. But children are also vulnerable on the run, because they sometimes lose their parent or caregiver in the chaos.

Pim Kraan, director of Save the Children: “In the centers for the first reception of refugees at the border with Romania, our staff has already seen several children who traveled alone. It is important that they are reunited with family as soon as possible. Sometimes children temporarily lose their family for a while.”

Save the Children is committed to reuniting children with their families. The organization does this both in Ukraine and in the border countries. There are an estimated 100,000 children in Ukraine, which is 1.3 percent of all children who live in institutions without parents. This makes Ukraine one of the highest percentages of children in institutional care in Europe. Since the start of the war, 1.8 million children have fled and 2.5 million are internally displaced.

Most vulnerable

MADURAI: After it was informed that the child welfare committee (CWC) in Virudhunagar hand handed over the custody of the child which was given for adoption illegally to its mother, Madras high court had recently disposed of a petition pertaining to the custody of the child.

The court was hearing a plea moved by A Ambika, a resident of K Puliankadai village in Salem district, seeking custody of her male child as she had given the child for adoption without following procedures as per law, in 2019.

When the couple from Virudhunagar district who had adopted the child attempted to get a birth certificate, they were asked to hand over the child to the CWC members as they had not followed the procedures of adoption as per law.

When the petitioner sought to hand over the custody of the child to her since she was willing to take care of the child, the same was denied by the CWC members. Hence, the petitioner moved HC seeking custody of her child. During the pendency of the petition, a DNA test was performed and it was confirmed that the petitioner was the mother of the child.

Justice Abdul Quddhose observed that it was brought to the notice of this court that the child was handed over to the petitioner in February. Since the prayer sought for in this petition has been achieved, nothing survives for further adjudication, said the judge, while disposing of the petition.

Adoption & Society criticizes the National Board of Appeal's investigation of Colombia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

Once again, the National Board of Appeal is delivering a piece of work that leaves adoptees in a gray zone with more unanswered questions than answers.

On 14 March 2022, the National Board of Appeal's conclusions were published on a study of 4 former partner countries: Bangladesh, Colombia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

For 3 of the countries, the investigation has now been completed, while the National Board of Appeal continues its investigation of Colombia.

The National Board of Appeal writes in its introduction: “The investigation has not led to specific information that the adoptions to Denmark from the 4 countries in the years in question took place on an illegal basis. However, the National Board of Appeal cannot deny that the adoption agency may have been associated with illegal behavior. ”

The Prime Minister invites to an event on the occasion of an apology to the six survivors of the 22 Greenlandic children who were sent to Denmark in 1951

On 8 December 2020, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen gave a written apology to the six surviving children of the 22 Greenlandic children who were sent to Denmark in 1951. The children became part of an experiment that had major human consequences.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is now inviting the six survivors to an official apology event together with Greenland's two members of the Folketing as well as representatives from the Danish Red Cross and Save the Children.

Chairman of the Naalakkersuisut Múte B. Egede also participates in the event.

The event will take place at the National Museum on Wednesday 9 March 2022 at 14-16.