They say Serge Zevlever founded Hand of Help in Adoption to help find children in Ukrainian orphanages homes, including children with special needs.

The families say the adoption agency notified them Zevlever was killed several days ago while fighting for his country. They say his daughter said he was killed during a sniper attack on Ukraine.

Zevlever was more than an adoption facilitator or liaison for these families. They say he instantly became family to them when they began the adoption process.

"A big Ukrainian male with a small Ukrainian accent, but a huge heart. He was an absolute teddy bear," Christian Miller said.

Megan and Christian Miller had five biological children and a sixth on the way when they decided to adopt.

Harjinder Thind, host at RED FM, asked doctors to report mothers who were putting up babies for adoption

A complaint has been filed with the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council (CBSC) over comments made by Harjinder Thind, a host at the RED FM radio station located in Surrey, B.C.

The complaint, filed by Pitt Meadows-based artist Jag Nagra on Monday, concerns Thind's Punjabi-language morning broadcast on Feb. 24.

Nagra, a member of the non-profit Punjabi Market Regeneration Collective, was scheduled to talk on Thind's show that day to promote the organization's search for new board members.

While waiting to go on air, Nagra heard Thind claim there was "breaking news" that numerous South Asian mothers at Surrey Memorial Hospital were giving birth and "abandoning" their babies by giving them up for adoption.

Three brothers in Ukraine set to be adopted by a family in Florida have been separated as the attacks from Russia continue to escalate.

A full week has passed since Russia initially launched an invasion into Ukraine, and attacks in both bigger cities and smaller villages across the country have been shellshocked as Russian forces continue to invade.

Three brothers are set to be adopted by Aaron and Breanna Andrews in Clermont, Florida, and Breanna told local news station WFTV that 9-year-old Daniil, the eldest, was moved west to a safer area of Ukraine, separated from his two younger brothers.

"We're very happy that he's moving to safety. I mean, that's our goal. We want that for all three of them, though," Breanna Andrews said.

CCAI Adoption Services' Judy Winger told WFTV that they have 45 families waiting to adopt nearly 81 children, but because of the current climate, there are concerns about limited resources, and communication has been erratic at best.

On Wednesday 23 February, Seamus Kelly, an industrial school survivor, was outside the Probation Service headquarters just off Smithfield Square for the third time in about as many months.

His two earlier visits to the large stone building had been to protest outside. Today, though, he would get in.

Kelly, dressed in blue jeans and a black jacket and clasping a copy of his book in his hand, is 10 minutes early for his meeting with the director of the Probation Service.

It’s a meeting he has been pushing for since 2004, he says. “I need answers and I’m not going to stop this protest until I get them.”

Back in 2004 Kelly met with an assistant principal in the Probation Service to seek answers about the anomalies he had spotted in the official documents he had collected to try to piece together his story and understand the traumas of the early years of his life.

Caritas says most of the children will come from heavily hit eastern Ukraine amid fears ‘humanitarian catastrophe approaching fast’

The Catholic charity Caritas Poland says it will take in 2,000 children from Ukrainian orphanages, with the first group of 300 arriving on Wednesday.

“Our eastern neighbours are talking about a humanitarian catastrophe that is approaching fast,” charity director Marcin I?ycki said.

“We have decided to respond to the crisis in Ukraine and provide shelter to the most vulnerable in our country.”

The children would come mainly from orphanages in eastern Ukraine, which has been worst affected by Russia’s assault on the country. The first group would be taken to Opole and Cz?stochowa in southern Poland and put up in charity centres and religious institutions.

Although there are few adoptive children in Bavaria, many couples want to adopt. A lengthy process with an uncertain outcome. But the chances are increasing, because applications have been steadily declining for years.

When the phone rings and the youth welfare office is there, Jonathan and Yvonne Lodziana from Memmingen could suddenly be parents. "It's like when you're pregnant and you think: Oh God, tomorrow it can start from the due date. We just can't prepare for it," says 30-year-old Yvonne. The couple has been waiting in vain for an adopted child for a year.

Adopt as Plan A

"We considered whether we would never want to have a child of our own, so we absolutely need it. And then we said: We can also help a child," explains Yvonne. For the couple, the question was always: "Why not actually adopt?" adds Jonathan. The two are prepared: their guest room already has everything a baby needs. A cot, toys and a changing table.

Over 100 children put up for adoption each year

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has personally apologized to a group of Greenlandic Inuit who were taken from their families in 1951 as part of a social experiment as a child. Six of the 22 are still alive. The apologies were conveyed at a meeting at the National Museum in Copenhagen.

The children were brought from Greenland to the then colonizer Denmark to be re-educated there. The idea was that once back in Greenland, they would form a Danish-speaking elite that could set an example for the rest of the Greenlandic population. In that way, they would contribute to the development of Greenland and improve the ties between Greenland and Denmark. The children were between 5 and 9 years old when they were taken from their families.

"What you went through was terrible and it was inhumane," Frederiksen said at the meeting. "It was unjust and heartless. We can take responsibility and do the only thing that is just: apologize for what happened."

Forbidden to speak Greenlandic

Initially it was the intention to send orphans to Denmark, but they proved difficult to find. Subsequently, children were also selected from families with only a father or mother. They were promised that the children in Denmark would receive a better education. “Our parents said yes, but they barely knew what they were agreeing to,” said Eva Ilum, one of the children.

The Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs,

Considering the international convention on the rights of the child of November 20, 1989;

Having regard to the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on the protection of children and cooperation in respect of international adoption;

Considering the code of social action and families , in particular its article R. 148-10,

Stops:

Each year, the International Adoption Mission publishes a comprehensive report containing all the figures relating to the adoption of foreign children by French nationals or foreigners residing in France.

International adoption in 2021

In 2021, 252 children were adopted abroad by French nationals or foreigners residing in France, compared to 244 in 2020.

The top 5 countries of origin

In 2021, the top 5 countries of origin are:

A child can request the cooperation of his presumed biological father with a DNA test in order to definitively establish paternity. In principle, the presumed biological father must cooperate in this. It is only possible to deviate from this under exceptional circumstances. The Supreme Court ruled that today.

The case

In this case, a 53-year-old man (hereinafter: the man) has repeatedly requested his presumed biological father to have DNA taken to investigate whether the latter is actually his biological father. The presumed biological father, who had a relationship with the man's mother prior to the man's birth, refuses to cooperate.

The rulings of the court and the court of appeal

The court previously ruled that the presumed biological father must cooperate with DNA testing because the interest of a child to know from whom it descends outweighs the interest of the father to keep it hidden. In doing so, the court took into account that the violation of the physical integrity of the presumed father, which is required for a DNA test, is very minor (reduction of buccal mucosa).