The District Court of The Hague has today rendered a decision in a case concerning the question of whether the Child Protection Board has acted unlawfully towards mothers in the Netherlands who, in the period 1956-1984, gave up their child against their will (remote mothers). . The case had been brought by the collective interest group Clara Wichmann, which stood up for a group of give-away mothers, and by one individual give-away mother. The court dismisses the claims.

Background

In the period between 1956 and 1984, it is estimated that between thirteen and fourteen thousand women in the Netherlands gave up one or more children for adoption. At the time, unmarried pregnant women were stigmatized as 'fallen women' because they had had sexual intercourse outside of marriage. Social attitudes have since changed significantly. It is difficult to comprehend with 'nowadays' how people thought about relinquishing a child in those days. The renunciation of adoption has deeply grieved the distance mothers. Many of them are still struggling with it. They want recognition for this suffering and that is why the claimants have started this procedure.

statute of limitations

It has been a long time since the women involved gave up their children. The State has therefore invoked limitation. The court is of the opinion that there are good reasons that the claims of the claimants are time-barred. But because it has not been established that the Council made errors that are legally culpable at the time, the court rejected the claims for that reason.

Ricki Mudd is a young girl sitting on the back of a bicycle–in front of her, an unidentified man pedals; above her, an umbrella shields them from the rain. The stranger, she later learns, is her father.

Cut to: an orphanage. Ricki’s stomach is empty; the hunger drives her to steal baby milk powder. Whack! She’s caught–a flurry of brooms and pain follow.

These are the sole memories of China that Mudd carried with her to the United States after a White American couple adopted her when she was nearly five. For the rest of her childhood, Ricki would be raised in SeaTac, Washington, the daughter of Bill and Wendy Mudd and the sister of eight siblings.

Mudd struggled to adapt to life in the US. Though the conditions of her previous environment were unknown, it was clear that she had physical and psychological issues from her past. Rotten teeth and an eye disorder were quickly fixed, but healing her mental health would prove to be a longer journey.

“I was diagnosed with ADHD and on antidepressants in my single digits” says Mudd, who saw a psychiatrist, therapist, and the school counselor to work through these issues. “I think all of that support collectively helped me regain my footing,” she says. “My parents here have done so much for me, and I just have so much love for them.”

According to court, the state is not liable for the suffering of 'remote mothers'

The Child Protection Board has not acted unlawfully towards a group of 'remote mothers' in the last century. That is what the court in The Hague ruled in a case that women's rights organization Bureau Clara Wichmann and 75-year-old mother-in-law Trudy Scheele had brought against the Dutch state.

The women they represent had to give up their newborn child between 1956 and 1984, often against their will. This concerns approximately 13,000 to 14,000 women who often became pregnant without being married.

Not well informed

Scheele herself became pregnant in the sixties, while she was not married. She was sent by her family to the Catholic Paul Foundation in Oosterbeek, where she gave birth to a son in 1968. After she gave birth, she had to give her son up for adoption, although she didn't want to.

MUMBAI: As the final season of the web series 'What The Folks' shows that the lead couple of the story played by Eisha Chopra and Veer Rajwant Singh opts for child adoption and face questions from their family and society, Veer opens up with his opinion on the matter.

According to IANS, Veer said "I think it is high time we as a society should change our attitude and mind conditioning towards children adoption and make it more inclusive because, at the end of the day, it is an individual's choice. There are two things, firstly adopting a child is not a backup that we earlier used to consider. Earlier it was looked as an option for those couples who do not have a child. Also, who is the biological parents of a child was always a talking point. That should be changed because once the child is born, everything boils down to the upbringing that they get."

"From a parents' end, one can give as much love as possible to any child. The problem starts when society singles out children as 'adopted children'. That could hurt the mind of a child even after getting love and affection from the parents."

He further added, "Another point I want to make here on changing attitude is, we should stop thinking that we are doing a favour to a child by adopting and giving a family status. Then that child, when becoming a grown-up man or woman, lives with a bitter feeling that once he/she was unwanted and some family, with generosity, has done some favour by giving a life. No, that is wrong."

The actor said that young couples, on the other hand, should also not face judgment of the society that if they are opting for adoption that means they cannot have their biological child. "I am hopeful that the more we continue the conversation regarding this, we will open our minds and make the place more inclusive for us." The show 'What The Folks : Season 4' is a Dice media original that is also featuring - Anula Navlekar, Nitesh Pandey, Deepika Amin among others.

This video posted by the Instagram page of Humans of Bombay shows how a couple beat all odds to adopt their younger daughter, Naina, from India.

Videos that show how people make their adopted children are always very emotional and heart-warming to watch. This video that was recently shared by the Instagram page of Humans of Bombay shows exactly that kind of a story. In it, viewers can see how a couple adopted their sweet daughter from India.

The father, Shane Michael Mylius and the mother, Johonna Jo Mylius - shared about their adoption journey in this video. The couple already had a daughter but decided to adopt another one from India. After two years of talking to agencies here, they got to know of a little, hearing impaired girl named Naina. And deep down, they knew immediately that this was their daughter.

When they finally came to India and met their child, the duo teared up when they finally got custody. The caption that accompanies this adorable video reads, “You don't have to share the same DNA to be family!” The video was complete with the information that not only is Naina enjoying her life with her new family but also, her older sister loves her a lot.

Since being posted on Instagram around an hour ago, this video has already received 31,000 likes. It has also received several comments from Instagram users who found this video way too adorable.

A teenage boy in China, who was sold as a baby only to be ditched again when he sought out his biological parents years later, has apparently committed suicide, the South China Morning Post reported in the latest shocking development.

Overdosed

Liu Xuezhou, 17, reportedly overdosed and died early Monday morning, Jan. 24, after he consumed a vast quantity of anti-depressants, which were prescribed to him for over a year, according to The Global Times.

He had left behind a 10,000-word suicide note posted on Weibo, where the last words were written 2 minutes after midnight on Monday morning.

Police searched for him after being alerted by the public

The XII. The civil senate of the Federal Court of Justice has ruled that a biological mother is fundamentally obliged to provide her child with information about the identity of the biological father even after adoption.

The underlying case concerned an applicant born in 1984 who requested information about the person of the biological father from her biological mother, the respondent. At the time of her birth, the respondent, who had grown up in problematic family circumstances, had just turned 16. She only noticed the pregnancy in the seventh month and left the secondary school, where she was in the seventh grade at the time, without a diploma. After the birth, she first lived with the applicant in a mother-child home and later in a shared flat for girls before the applicant was adopted by a married couple. A paternity determination procedure carried out in 1985 was just as unsuccessful as an extrajudicial paternity test with another man. At the end of 2003, mediated by the youth welfare office, the applicant and opponent met. After the applicant had unsuccessfully asked the respondent in March 2018 to name and address the biological father, she has now requested this information in the court proceedings. The district court rejected the application because the respondent was unable to provide information. In response to the applicant's appeal, the Higher Regional Court amended this decision and, in accordance with the application, obliged the respondent to give the applicant the full name and address of all the men who were with the respondent during the legal period of conception.

The Federal Court of Justice rejected the appeal on points of law lodged by the respondent.

The basis for the claim for the requested information is the provision of § 1618 a BGB, according to which parents and children owe each other assistance and consideration. Even if the regulation does not provide for any specific sanctions in the event of a violation, parents and children can mutually develop legal claims from it. The general right of personality entails the constitutional obligation of the state to take appropriate account of the individual's need for protection before the withholding of available information about one's own origins when structuring the legal relationships between the persons concerned. This must be taken into account when interpreting § 1618 a BGB*, especially since the legislature has not expressly standardized a right to information. Unlike the claim of the so-called dummy father against the child's mother for information about the identity of the biological father of the child, for which the Federal Constitutional Court rejected a derivation from the principles of good faith (§ 242 BGB**) and demanded an express legal basis , it is not just a matter of asserting financial interests. Rather, the right to information strengthens a legal position of very considerable constitutional importance, namely the right to know one's own descent.

The fact that the respondent is no longer the legal mother of the applicant due to the adoption of the applicant and the expiration of the legal parent-child relationship resulting from Section 1755 (1) sentence 1 BGB due to adoption does not conflict with the claim. Because the obligation to provide information between the child and the mother arose before the adoption. If one were to see this differently, adoption would, with regard to the right to know one's parentage, lead to an unjustified disadvantage compared to children whose legal parent-child relationship with their biological mother continues. In the present case, the Respondent has not presented any significant considerations that speak against her obligation to provide information, but on the contrary at no time denied that the claimant's right to information exists in principle. Thus, she did not invoke specific concerns that could lead to denying the existence of the right to information with regard to her right to respect for her private and intimate sphere, which is also protected under constitutional law.

‘Don’t want to see me anymore? See you in court’: Chinese teenager sold at birth by parents sues them for deserting him again after reunion

Liu asked his parents to help him financially but they quickly had a falling-out over money

His parents say they are not well-off and his father even claimed it was his adoptive family’s responsibility to provide for Liu

A young man from northern China whose parents sold him at birth and refused a relationship with him after he recently found them has now vowed to take the case to court.

Liu Xuezhou, a 17-year-old college student in Hebei province, northern China, said on Thursday that he is suing his birth parents for abandoning him twice after reuniting with them a few weeks ago with the help of police.

Gurgaon: A day after cops arrested two more members of the child trafficking gang, investigators said on Monday that it bought newborns from couples from humble backgrounds and sold the infants to a community of street performers in Rajasthan for Rs 1.5 lakh (girls) to Rs 4 lakh (boys).

The community members, police said, would train the children from an early age for street performances like walking on the rope. The girls, after a certain age, were sold to people as brides. This was revealed by the gang leader after his arrest by the police.

On Sunday, cops nabbed Kulwant Singh from Delhi and Anil from Alwar in Rajasthan, bringing the total number of arrests to 11. Kulwant, the investigators said, was the mastermind of the gang while Anil was responsible for arranging possible clients for the infants.

To date, police have recovered three infants, two girls barely a month-old and a four-month-old boy. “We are trying to find out details of children sold,” said ACP (crime) Preet Pal Sangwan. “The gang members, during interrogation, told us they used to sell the infants to a community of street performers in Rajasthan.”

Cops said many more members of the gang are still at large. The accused, during interrogation, told cops that they had no knowledge of the current locations of the children sold by them.

The National Assembly adopted at second reading -pardon the pun-, a law that puts associations on their feet. Firstly because they consider that, under the guise of “modernization”, this law undermines the consent to adoption

of birth parents.

A complex subject

Nothing less. Watching the broadcast of the debates is interesting. We are rediscovering how important laws can be passed by a tiny number of deputies. The polite, yet lively exchanges shed light on a complex subject. To summarize in broad strokes, until now, parents, often a single mother in difficulty, entrusted the ASE with their child, thus giving them access to the status of ward of the State.

In a second step, in another step, this same birth parent gave his consent for this child to be adopted. From now on, the two stages will become one: placement under State guardianship will be accompanied, in the same movement, by the possible opening towards simple or full adoption.