The High Court not only stayed the shifting of 44 orphan kids from Saint Francis Orphanage in Sagar but also sought a report from the district Child Welfare Committee on why it was being done in this cold weather amid spiking Covid cases

The Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed an order of the state-run Child Welfare Committee (CWC) for shifting orphan children from an orphanage run by a Christian missionary in the Sagar district.

The Sagar CWC’s move came after the licence of the Saint Francis Orphanage was not renewed by the district administration over allegations that beef was being served to the kids in the orphanage run by the Sagar Diocese of the Catholic community.

Some members of the right-wing Hindu groups had also alleged conversion of tribal kids in the charitable orphanage and demanded an FIR against the institution.

The High Court not only stayed the shifting of 44 orphan children but also sought a report from the Sagar CWC on why they were being shifted in this cold weather amid spiking Covid-19 cases.

'Donated' is the core of the adopted child

(A response to five articles about adoption in the Volkskrant from 19 to 30 December 2006)

The core of the article by Saskia Harkema and Jan Smits is very good: they are very aware of the sadness and inevitability of ' being relinquished' and that is the core of adoption for the child. It's a shame that this gets overshadowed by the reference to colonialism. Whatever anyone's motives for adoption, no child wants to be given up . Although the M.Lolkema article 'Unique opportunity' is not known, much research has already been done in which this is demonstrated: among others Nancy Verrier, 1993. From the same year 1993 also dates the 'Hague Adoption Convention' that protects the best interests of the child. puts first. Putting that interest first has proven time and again very difficult.

In his article Paul Vertegaal of Spoorloos also first mentions the pain and humiliation for biological adults of having to give up a child. Giving up, however painful it may be, is active. ' To be relinquished' is passive. Should the child also have those burdens placed on the shoulders of adults? The child is the only one who hasn't had a choice, that it all happens. The child should be at the forefront of opinions about adoption. Even if their adoption is successful and they don't want to undo it, the 'pain of a successful adoption ' can present a lifelong dilemma for the abandoned child, which they continue to struggle with.

Every child that is born deserves parents who wish to have children. There should be no doubt about that wish among adoptive parents. However , the strong desire to have children that is often spoken of by adoptive parents also entails (the risk) that grief must be compensated for this. That is not the interest of an adopted child and should not be on their shoulders.

From 1 January 2022, adoptive parents can no longer submit a request to have data from before the adoption removed from the personal list of the adopted child. Only the adopted child (aged 16 or older) can make such a request. This change ensures that the 'pedigree data' of the child (BRP data from before the adoption) can no longer be removed from the BRP by someone else.

It is therefore no longer possible for adoptive parents to have data from before the adoption removed from the personal list of the child. This concerns, among other things:

the (previous) name;

one or both parents;

the nationality and/or historical address details lost during adoption.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that people who adopt pets instead of children were exhibiting “a form of selfishness” as he presided over his first general audience of the new year.

“How many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care of them,” the pontiff said in a speech at the Vatican. “And how many spouses wish to be fathers and mothers but are unable to do so for biological reasons; or, although they already have children, they want to share their family’s affection with those who have been left without.”

Francis’ catechism lesson focused on the figure of Joseph, who Francis said was the “foster father” of Jesus.

Repeating his call for couples to have more children to address the “demographic winter” in much of the West, he said those who can’t have children should be open to adoption.

Today “we see a form of selfishness ... We see that people do not want to have children,” he said.

The Swedish government is opening an investigation into thousands of forced adoptions during the Chilean dictatorship

BARCELONA “You will never see your child again. It's somewhere in Europe. " With these words, Clas Lindholm's mother learned that she had been deceived and that her newborn son had been stolen. Lindholm, who arrived in Sweden in 1975 at just a few weeks old, discovered when she was 43 that her mother had not abandoned her, but that behind her adoption was a darker story. He is one of more than 2,000 victims of a perverse diplomatic campaign by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet to improve his international image, which, four decades later, also makes Sweden blush.

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SAUK COUNTY (WKOW) -- A River Valley School District teacher is now facing charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a child in the 1990s.

Michael J. Hill is facing three charges for first degree sexual assault of a child.

Melisa Trejo says she was that child, and she says Hill adopted her from Colombia in 1987. Trejo wanted to share her story because she says she's tried to for the past 30 years, but no one has listened.

"I've been praying for a miracle, because really, I just -- I didn't ever see it happening," Trejo said.

She said she's not interested in vengeance, but rather justice from events that have left her scarred for decades -- and that she has worked for decades to bring to light.

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Why would a supranational law enforcer suddenly refrain from wielding its powers? We theorize the supranational politics of forbearance – the deliberate under-enforcement of the law – and distinguish them from domestic forbearance. We explain why an exemplary supranational enforcer – the European Commission – became reluctant to launch infringements against European Union member states. While the Commission’s legislative role as “engine of integration” has been controversial, its enforcement role as “guardian of the Treaties” has been viewed as less contentious. Yet after 2004, infringements launched by the Commission plummeted. Triangulating between infringement statistics and elite interviews, we trace how the Commission grew alarmed that aggressive enforcement was jeopardizing intergovernmental support for its policy proposals. By embracing dialogue with governments over robust enforcement, the Commission sacrificed its role as guardian of the Treaties to safeguard its role as engine of integration. Our analysis holds broader implications for the study of forbearance in international organizations.

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When the Clinton administration passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) in 1997, it intended to drastically reduce the number of children stuck for long periods of time in foster care. One of the safeguards it put in place was a timeline: If a child was in the foster care system for 15 of 22 consecutive months, states would be required to file for termination of parental rights — with an exception made if the child welfare agency provides a "compelling reason" as to why the parent should retain their rights, though a judge would have the power to overturn that appeal.

Courts can terminate parental rights when child welfare agencies present evidence that a parent is not able to care for their child, including because of neglect, abuse, maltreatment and crimes against children. But there are a much broader range of reasons a child ends up in foster care, and critics have long urged lawmakers to re-examine how this timeline places more stress on both parents and children, and in some cases prematurely separates children from their families.

Roughly 1 in 100 children in the U.S. have their parents' rights terminated by age 18, according to an expanded 2019 analysis by Cornell and Rutgers Universities, and Black, brown and Indigenous families, as well as low-income families, disproportionately lose these rights.

"[ASFA] wasn't designed to protect those families. It was designed to be harmful to those families," said Joyce McMillan, a longtime advocate who wants the law repealed. "Look at those kids whose [parents'] rights are terminated. The system doesn't fight for children. The system does not parent," she added, referring to the higher likelihood of negative life outcomes for foster children.

A new House bill introduced in November aims to build in better protections for different marginalized groups in the system, as well as give more time for parents to get their kids back in their care. While some advocates want to remove the timeline altogether, the bill seeks to expand it to at least relieve some of that pressure, they said.

Lourdes, 43, and her biological mother, Nélida Soria, 82, kiss after their reunion in the province of Entre Ríos. They spent four decades apart and were reunited thanks to a partial opening of the National Genetic Data Database.Courtesy

The practice of “getting a child” has always existed in Argentine society, with the complicity of midwives and notary offices and the silence of the rest of society. The agents of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-83) took advantage of this old gear to set up their system of stealing babies born by political militants who were tortured and murdered in clandestine detention centers. But trafficking, appropriations and illegal adoptions continued to occur in parallel, outside the barracks. This is proved by the overwhelming number of people who were born during the period of state terrorism, have irregular documentation and are looking for their origin, but were discarded as children of disappeared in DNA tests carried out by the National Genetic Data Bank [BNDG] since the return of democracy.

The BNDG was created in 1987. In these 35 years, the collation of biological samples from the families of disappeared by the dictatorship and from people who doubted their identity allowed the identification, without margin of error, to 130 of the 500 grandchildren sought by the organization Avós da Praça de Mayo. But the process accumulated more than 12,500 negative results along the way: people who grew up with a changed identity, but are not the wanted grandchildren. The problem for them is that, after the DNA test is negative, there are no other options for tracking its origin. And the problem for the State is that these cases are growing in the order of 100 per month, while grandchildren —the reason for the BNDG’s existence— have stopped appearing. The last announcement was two and a half years ago.

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But something is changing, little by little. Recently, 12 negative BNDG cases received good news: their mothers are alive. Policies are not and have never been missing. This identification was possible because the organization, in addition to its archive of families looking for grandchildren stolen by the military, created another record, of mothers looking for children stolen in a context other than that of state terrorism. The figures were confirmed to EL PAÍS by Mariana Herrera Piñero, director of the BNDG since 2015, who nevertheless warned that they “are dynamic”. The sum of encounters highlights the potential of this partial opening of the BNDG DNA file.

The National Court for Federal Administrative Litigation No. 10, headed by Dr. Walter Lara Correa, Secretariat No. 19, headed by Dr. Scatularo Marta, located at Calle Paraguay 923/25, 7th floor of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, in files entitled "SEARCHING TRUTHS INFINITE CIVIL ASSOCIATION C / EN S / AMPARO LAW 16.986" File. 1209/2021, pending before this Court, has ordered the publication of this document in order to guarantee adequate notification of all those who may have an interest in the result of the litigation and to inform them that this action has been formally followed. collective filed by before the mentioned Court; that the class involves all human persons who were victims of identity substitution, 548 and (B) that the National Executive Branch carry out the implementation of a management plan, so that the substitution victims find their biological identity, as well as for anyone who has suffered an impairment being affected by human trafficking . The order that orders this reads: Buenos Aires, November 12, 2021: Therefore, I RESOLVE: 1º) Declare formally admissible that the present case is processed as a collective action, in the terms of article 3 of the Public Registry Regulation of Collective Processes (Agreed CSJN 32/2014) and Annex of Agreed No. 12/2016 and, consequently, order - conf. Point V subsection 4 of the aforementioned regulation - its registration in the Public Registry of Collective Proceedings of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, if this had not yet occurred; 2 °) In order to guarantee the adequate notification of all those persons who may have an interest in the result of the litigation, it is provided that they be annotated by means of publication of edicts for one day in the Official Gazette and in the newspapers "Page 12" and " Chronicle"; whose preparation and subscription is the responsibility of the plaintiff. In them, the interested parties will be informed that the present collective action was formalized before this Court; that the class involves all human persons who were victims of identity substitution, persons in search of their biological identity and / or their relatives interested in the search, and all those who have been impaired by human trafficking and that its object consists of in which: A) Law No. 26,548, in its articles 2, 5, 6, is declared unconstitutional 14 and 23, subsection d), insofar as it is limited to guaranteeing the obtaining, storage and analysis of genetic information regarding crimes against humanity whose execution has begun within the scope of the National State until December 10, 1983, considering that there are victims of identity substitution before, during and after said process, therefore the universality of access to the Genetic Database is proposed, without the restrictions of Law No. 26,548 and (B) that the National Executive Power carry out the implementation of a management plan, so that replacement victims find their biological identity, as well as for anyone who has suffered an impairment being affected by human trafficking. Register, notify the parties, contact the Public Registry of Collective Proceedings and release the previously ordered edicts. Signed by: Edgardo Walter Lara Correa, federal judge. Edgardo Walter Lara Correa Judge - Edgardo Walter Lara Correa Federal Judge

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