James Derek Mize is an American citizen, born and raised in the United States. His husband, who was born in Britain to an American mother, is a United States citizen, too.

But the couple’s infant daughter isn’t, according to the State Department.

She was born abroad to a surrogate, using a donor egg and sperm from her British-born father. Those distinct circumstances mean that, under a decades-old policy, she did not qualify for citizenship at birth, even though both her parents are American.

“It’s shocking,” said Mr. Mize, 38, a former lawyer who lives in Atlanta with his husband, Jonathan Gregg, a management consultant. The couple received a letter denying their daughter’s citizenship last month.

“We’re both Americans; we’re married,” Mr. Mize said. “We just found it really hard to believe that we could have a child that wouldn’t be able to be in our country.”

L’enfant du diable

L’enfant du diable

Le lycée français vous informe de cet événement à l’Institut Français le 21 mai :

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Avec la projection du film documentaire « L’enfant du Diable »

The aim of the "Euregional Conference on Aftercare Adoption" is to be able to offer better psychological support to the adoption triangle of child, biological and adoptive parent through an exchange of experiences. Association for aftercare adoption from Venray and Osteopathy Vivi from Straelen are starting a collaboration for that reason.

Dutch: Doel van “euregionale conferentie nazorg adoptie” is het om door een uitwisseling van ervaringen een betere psychische begeleiding aan de adoptiedriehoek van kind, biologisch en adoptiefouder te kunnen bieden. Vereniging nazorg adoptie uit Venray en Osteopathie Vivi uit Straelen starten om die reden een samenwerking.

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CHENNAI: As multiple cases of illegal sale of babies, including the Namakkal racket, cast a shadow on adoption in the state, data released by the department of social defence shows that while there are 2,382 prospective parents waiting for more than two years to adopt children across Tamil Nadu, the state currently has only 82 children ready for adoption.

“The adoption process is complicated and there are only very few children available. But we hope we can bring home our child,” said Rakesh Saxena, a city-based entrepreneur, who had applied for adopting a child two years ago. Among the 274 children currently placed across 20 adoption agencies in the state, only 82 were found eligible and ready. “Not all children can be placed for adoption. Only those who are willing, undergone counselling and are deemed fit by authorities are eligible for placement,” said an official from the department of social defence. While most of the children in adoption homes

are above eight years of age, the demand is only for children who are below four years of age.

Officials, however, also raise concerns about what this figure could mean. “We suspect that many children are being put for adoption illegally and are not coming through the process,” said an official pointing to the Namakkal baby selling racket. Demand for kids aged under four very high, say officials

According to officials from the State Adoption Resources Agency, the demand for children below four years is extremely high, while for those between 8 to 17 years of age is a lot lower. “But only a few children are below the age of four in adoption agencies,” the official said. The adoption agencies, however, continue to get more than 200 children every year under three categories – orphan/ abandoned, surrendered and cradle baby. The numbers, according to officials, are low, especially newborns surrendered under cradle baby scheme.

Baby in custody of issueless Pune couple

By Kumud Jenamani in Jamshedpur

An Adityapur woman, who was forced by poverty to virtually sell her infant boy to an issueless couple in April, approached police late on Friday night pleading she wanted her son back, the case raising highlighting how unauthorised adoptions work.

Adityapur police have contacted the couple, now in Pune, and ordered them to return the infant to its biological mother in a couple of days.

Birth mother Seema Mahali aka Seema Rao, who lives in Rambadhaiya area in Adityapur, said she had no choice but to hand over her newborn son to a well-off family in the area when she failed to return a loan of Rs 5,000 that she had taken from them.

A chance audio clip has blown the lid off a well-entrenched network involved in the sale of newborns. Such is its expanse that the CB-CID has been roped in to investigate. Poverty of ‘sellers’ and desperation among ‘buyers’ is believed to have fuelled the racket

On April 25, an audio clip of a conversation on procuring babies for illegal adoption by childless couples went viral on social media.

An inquiry by Namakkal police into the conversation, which sounded like one between a prospective buyer and a broker, uncovered a network involved in the sale of 30 newborns – 24 of them female -- from various parts of the State, including villages in the Kolli Hills of Namakkal District.

Police said the racket involved facilitation of illegal adoption of babies, mostly born into poor families, for huge sums of money. The price varied with the gender, health and complexion of the child.

The Namakkal police arrested S. Amuthavalli, a retired nursing assistant from Rasipuram, her husband S. Ravichandran, who works in a public sector bank, and an ambulance driver, Murugeshan, from Kolli Hills. They also arrested a few agents from Erode, who lured childless couples into illegal procurement of children. They were the link between the “buyers” and Amuthavalli, who then worked the deal with parents who wanted to give their children away.

The ghost cemetery on the outskirts of Bucharest: 5,000 children placed in common graves in Pipera

May 19, 2019 7 6840 6 minutes to read

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RTnews | GOVERNMENT SECRETS. The ghost cemetery on the outskirts of Bucharest: 5,000 children placed in common graves in Pipera

Over 5,000 unidentified children were placed in approximately 100 common graves in two cemeteries, said by the poor and children, in Pipera and Frumu?ani. Everything happened between 1997 and 2000. On most of the crosses, now we, from here, do not write anything. Looks like a ghost cemetery. But he hides the pain of a mother whose child was lost in one of these common pits, and now she can't find it anymore. The woman made complaints against those who brought her child here and received a criminal fine for being silent ...

More than 5,000 unidentified children were buried in about 100 mass graves in two cemeteries, said to be of the poor and children, in Pipera and Frumu?ani. It all happened between 1997 and 2000. On most of the crosses, now we, from Berton, do not write anything. It looks like a ghost cemetery. But he hides the pain of a mother whose child was lost in one of these common pits, and now she can't find it. The woman filed a complaint against those who brought her child here and received a criminal fine for keeping silent…

On 21.08.2014 at the headquarters of the Inspector General of Police was filed a complaint registered at number 158778. Through this document, Angela Tudorache, nurse at a hospital in Bucharest, asked the bodies authorized to search for the body of her child, who died in 1997 in The Municipal Hospital and buried, with "documents that can no longer be found", in one of the common graves in the children's cemetery in Pipera. The woman's story is hallucinatory and terrifying at the same time.

"I gave birth to Gabriel, my first child, in 1997 and they came two days later to tell me that he had died. I went crazy with pain. Then they put a document in front of me in which I handed over the child's body, to be buried by I don't know who. They said that, not being baptized, he needed a special job, which they would take care of. I signed, but I tell you I didn't know what I was signing at the time. Then I asked to be shown my child, and they took me to the morgue. Gabriel was in a refrigerator, cut in half, without organs. An autopsy had been performed. I asked him to let me take him and take care of him, to be sewn, dressed and put in a coffin. They did not leave me, they reminded me that I signed the paper and that it will be buried, they said then, by the Patriarchate "

SECRETS OF GOVERNORS. The ghost cemetery on the outskirts of Bucharest: 5,000 children buried in mass graves in Pipera

"I've been judging them for almost 10 years"

The Cradle Baby Scheme that provides for cradles at government hospitals and Primary Health Centres to receive unwanted newborns, and put them up for legal adoption, could prevent illegal sale of babies. But, the system needs to be tightened.

For instance, the Cradle Baby Centre at the Dharmapuri Government Hospital itself needs resuscitation. The centre has remained dysfunctional for close to a year, after its lone staff, who was paid Rs.100 a day, found a better job.

Babies, however, find their way to the cradle because the centre is located within the hospital, and the babies come from the hospital's maternity ward, says District Child Protection Officer M. Sivagandhi. “We get routine calls from the doctors and the nurses from the maternity ward, alerting us on parents who have a third girl child, or an unwed mother wanting to give away a baby.”

All the 24 private homes run by NGOs and the two government homes in the district have a cradle. But, babies are almost never dropped in them, says the director of a home.

This is where PHCs can play a crucial role.