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Title Inter-country adoption from Romania - the big test

Vaststelling begroting Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken (V) voor het jaar 2008

31200 V 126 Lijst van vragen en antwoorden

Vergaderjaar 2007-2008

Nr. 126 Vastgesteld 12 juni 2008

De vaste commissie voor Buitenlandse Zaken1 heeft een aantal vragen voorgelegd aan de ministers voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking en van Buitenlandse Zaken over de brief van 1 april 2008 inzake de opvang en rechtspositie van weeskinderen (Kamerstuk 31 200 V, nr. 84).

For Morgan Terch, owner of Wilder Way Threads, business is more than just the bottom line. It’s gotta have heart. That’s why her shop, which sells vintage textiles, donates 25 percent of its proceeds to adoptive parents and families.

The story of Wilder Way began in 2020 when Terch and her husband and co-owner, Jeffrey, were on their own adoption journey. They were trying to bring their daughter, Eden, home from India and needed help to defray costs. Having both worked for a local adoption agency, they were aware of how difficult, and pricey, the process would be and knew they would need to get creative. Terch recalled a supplier in Turkey, whom she had bought pillow cases from for her home, and decided to reach back out to him. She purchased a small order, did a sale on her Instagram account, and sold all 40 items in an hour. Coincidentally, it turned out the man had been orphaned as a child, creating even more of a connection. From there, the seed of an idea blossomed into a plan and things seemed to fall into place. What if they could create a small business to help other people on the same path?

“I thought…let’s keep doing this,” says Terch. “I love looking at these textiles. I love that we’re supporting this man in Turkey…and his small business…that’s a win-win. And then we’re also helping make a way for us to provide a home for our future child.”

According to Terch, a typical adoption, international or domestic, can take years to finalize and cost upwards to $40,000. However, she goes on to highlight, it’s important to use a licensed, Hague-accredited service as it ensures that the proper, legal steps are taken.

“On one hand, that is probably a barrier that keeps a lot of people from adopting,” says Terch. “But, on the flip side, having worked in an adoption agency, I really see the benefit of [it] being expensive. The fees ensure that the adoption is done the right way.”

Penny Mackieson finally has the name that feels right to her, nearly 60 years after she was inadvertently swapped with another baby when the infants were placed for adoption.

After mustering the courage to contact the person that records indicated was her biological mother, the Melbourne woman spent two decades getting to know and love the woman and her family.

But gnawing doubts, spurred by the fact she resembled no one in the family, led her and her believed-to-be mother to take DNA tests, which revealed they were not related.

Adoption Information Services then connected with an elderly Greek woman – Mackieson’s real biological mother.

After a 15-minute court hearing before the Victorian county court on Tuesday, Mackieson’s 33-year search for the truth was finalised.

American adoptions of children in Ukraine are in limbo due to the war, stopping many American parents from being united with their Ukrainian children.

16-year-old Sasha is supposed to be adopted and with his family in America right now. Instead, he is stuck watching a war happen right outside of his window.

"From the moment that he stepped through the doors at the airport, I was like, that is my son. And it really didn’t take any more than that. We didn’t need language; we didn’t need to bond. He was my son. And that was the end of it," says his soon-to-be adoptive mother, Jennifer Ruff.

That is how Jennifer describes her relationship with Sasha, a 16-year-old orphan in Ukraine, who already calls her mom.

“He fit in with our family immediately. So he is very silly and goofy, he is athletic. He loves sports, especially soccer and volleyball, those are his favorites," says Jennifer.

Comic book artist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom was in her 30s when she learned she was a “paper orphan”.

Born in South Korea, and taken to an orphanage before being adopted to a Swedish family at 2 years old, Sjöblom was removed from her mother because of her unmarried status. Poverty, disability, religion or simply being indigenous can be enough of a reason for the adoption industry to take children from their first families, she says.

As a “paper orphan”, Sjöblom was registered as an orphan even though her parents who were alive and known to authorities.

Illicit transnational adoption has deliberately erased the families and identities of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.

Now, the comic book artist, illustrator and adoptees rights activist lives in T?maki Makaurau Auckland with her partner, children and cat.

The Bombay high court has directed the Dharavi division deputy collector to issue a caste certificate within two weeks to the adopted son of a single mother, assigning him the same caste as her.

A division bench of justices Sunil Shukre and GA Sanap passed an operative order on Tuesday allowing the petition filed by the 44-year-old doctor, a Borivali West resident. A detailed order is expected in due course.

In the petition, filed through advocate Pradeep Havnur, the woman said the process to adopt the boy was approved by the Bombay City Civil Court in October 2009.

The woman, who belongs to the Hindu Mahyavanshi (scheduled caste) community, then applied to the deputy collector in 2016 for a caste certificate for her son seeking the same caste. On September 3 that year, the deputy collector rejected her plea, saying her documents could not be accepted for assigning the same caste.

The District Caste Scrutiny Committee for Mumbai city rejected her appeal against the deputy collector’s order on November 30, 2017 citing absence of specific legal provisions covering adopted children. The woman then moved the high court.

Victorian Government response to the recommendations of the

Legislative Assembly Legal and Social Issues Committee’s Inquiry into

responses to historical forced adoption in Victoria

Ukraine - Adoption Update

Last Updated: March 9, 2022

The Office of Children’s Issues has received many inquiries from prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) at all stages of the adoption process in Ukraine who are understandably concerned about the safety of the children. ??

Many families have previously hosted the child they wish to adopt and hope to find a mechanism to bring the child to the United States until the crisis in Ukraine resolves. We are also hearing from hosting organizations and other humanitarian groups who seek information about how to bring Ukrainian children to the United States outside of the intercountry adoption process. ?Right now, the situation in Ukraine is fluid. We are in touch with Ukrainian authorities who have expressed concern about moving children out of Europe at this point.?Our understanding is that children may depart Ukraine with their legal guardians, who are often the orphanage directors, if other required criteria are met. The Ukrainian government has confirmed they are not approving children to participate in host programs at this time and are taking measures to ensure their safety in neighboring countries.

We will continue to seek clarifications from the Ukrainian government for how parents with final court approval and final orders of adoption may proceed.? PAPs may find helpful Information for U.S. Citizens In the Process of Adopting in Ukraine on our website.?

Getting married, becoming a mother, leading a happy existence and then suddenly discovering, thanks to social media, that "I am not the person I thought I was for 40 years". It is the story of Enrica Locatelli, a young woman who lives in Bergamo whose life "was turned upside down a couple of months ago, when I learned that she was kidnapped in Paraguay a few months after her birth to be sold to an Italian couple".

I involved

Those who "I had always thought of as my real parents had actually gotten me by paying money." But to whom? An alleged "illegal child abduction" which, according to the complaint presented by the 40-year-old at the Prosecutor's Office in Bergamo, involves a Veronese missionary priest, Don Attilio Cordioli. The latter, who is originally from Mozzecane and belongs to the Redemptorists , denies any suspicion, claiming that it is "only lies", "false accusations made by the devil". This is how the Veronese priest reached the diocesan sanctuary of the Madonna del Perpetuo Soccorso dei Redemptoristi di Bussolengo on the microphones of the show Le Iene su Italia 1 :unattainable as he has already returned to Paraguay, he often travels commuting between South America and Verona . His cell phone? Don Cordioli does not have a cell phone, he never had one ».

New details

Those who, on the other hand, did not shy away from adding new details to her incredible story is Enrica flanked by her husband Fabio : theirs, they say, until recently was a family where "every piece seemed to be in the right place", where "everything ran for the better until, from one day to the next - Enrica recalls - I knew I was actually another person ». She thus discovering that "I was born from another family that I have now finally met, that I have ten brothers that I didn't even know existed". For 40 years, Enrica has in fact believed "erroneously" to "be the daughter of Rosa Bardelle , a housewife originally from Cavarzere nel Veneziano, and of the industrialist Piero Locatelli from Bergamo. I'mboth passed away before I learned that in reality they weren't the ones who brought me into the world. " The turning point dates back to two months ago when Enrica learned that “immediately after her birth, I was stolen from my real parents who had brought me into the world in Pilar, Paraguay. My twin brother has suffered the same fate and I take the opportunity - it is Enrica's appeal - to invite anyone who knows something, to help me find him or in any case to hear from him. They told us that he too could have been kidnapped like me and then sold to another Italian couple ».