When I was six, I asked my mom whether I was adopted.

There was no event in particular that convinced me I wasn’t born to my family, I just knew.

Since the trauma of maternal separation is preverbal, my body remembered being ripped away from my birth mother, even if I didn’t yet have language for it.

However, when my mom somehow evaded my question, I decided not to press her for answers.

When I turned 10, I tried again. The intuitive feeling that I wasn’t related to my parents never went away. It only intensified. This time, my mom confirmed that my biological parents had given me up for adoption as a newborn, and they had adopted me to raise me as their own.

A couple have adopted three brothers after their journey to become parents was put on hold due to a devastating diagnosis.

Kate and Adrian, who have asked only to be referred to by their first names, had already adopted two boys aged three and ten months old when they received a call to say their baby brother was also on his way.

It was at the start of the first coronavirus lockdown back in April 2020 when they received the call from the social worker, who asked "are you sitting down?"

The couple, from Liverpool, said they couldn't face the thought of the baby growing up without his brothers, so they welcomed him into their home on September 30 last year.

To adopt the boys, they went through a process called, Foster for adopt, where approved adopters are temporarily approved as foster carers so a baby can move into the adopters’ home.

Brandpunt Reporter - 21 okt 2007 21:50 - Seizoen 3 Afl. 14 - Adoptie.

Ooit leek het puur idealisme. Inmiddels is adoptie een wereldwijde kopersmarkt geworden. Een markt waar de jongste, de gezondste en de blankste kinderen gaan naar de meest betalende vrager. Een overspannen markt bovendien. Volgens Unicef zijn er voor ieder kind 25 ouderparen beschikbaar. Over ouders die in hun wanhopige zoektocht de grenzen van de regelgeving aftasten, prijzen opdrijven en omstreden organisaties aan het werk zetten.

Dertig jaar geleden was adoptie vooral idealisme. Geef een kind een kans. Nu is adoptie vooral de laatste optie. In de westerse wereld wachten wij steeds langer met het nemen van kinderen. En als we dan nog willen, dan lukt het steeds vaker niet meer. Het aantal ongewenst kinderlozen groeit. Voor hen is adoptie steeds vaker het laatste redmiddel.

In de uitzending komen onder andere Nederlandse adoptieorganisatie aan het woord. Zij erkennen het bestaan van de markt, maar doen naar eigen zeggen niet mee aan de prijzenslag. Zij betalen wat ze hebben afgesproken. Geen cent te veel en zeker niet onder de tafel. Nederland als netste jongetje van de klas. Waar landen als Amerika en Frankrijk de kindertehuizen in de 3e wereld feteren met luxueuze banketten en dikke dollarcheques, geven wij een lullig zilveren schaaltje. Met inscriptie. Hoe netjes zijn onze adoptieorganisaties? In hoeverre is de marktwerking ook hier doorgedrongen? Wat moet je betalen voor adoptie? En krijg je korting op kinderen met een afwijking?

Volgens de Nederlandse adoptieorganisatie wereldkinderen verandert het aanbod van kinderen. Omdat we op de internationale markt minder betalen, krijgen we steeds vaker alleen de minder gewilde kinderen aangeboden. Kinderen met een hazelip, of een klompvoet of een ontwikkelingsachterstand bijvoorbeeld. En lang niet iedereen wil zo'n kind. De meesten willen een gezonde baby. Die zijn er steeds minder en dus wachten veel ouders vooral. Jaren soms.

Eric Wardell, an Indigenous man from Canada’s Northwest Territories, was taken from his parents at just three weeks old, in what is known in Canada as the “sixties scoop.” In this first-person story, Wardell explores his identity — what it means to discover who you are, and how your past can shape your future. This story is part of the ‘Turning Points’ series: stories told by Indigenous people from Yellowknife, Canada in partnership with the Global Reporting Centre.

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Thiruvananthapuram: Ajith’s first wife Nasiya has come out with an allegation against

Anupama saying she was aware of the adoption of her baby. She told media that she had

seen Anupama signing the adoption document and that she was fully in the know while signing.

Anupama decided to sign it when she knew that Ajith was not going to get a divorce, she said.

Nasiya also alleged that Ajitth's relationship with Anupama was the reason for their

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : On a day when Anupama S Chandran, the woman who is on the search of her baby allegedly given in adoption to another couple by the child welfare council, staged a fast in front of the Secretariat seeking justice, the state government approached the Family Court here with a request to freeze the adoption proceedings of the baby which is believed to be Anupama’s. She ended her protest after government’s assurance.

Woman and Child Welfare Minister Veena George said the state adoption agency will file the petition in the court, detailing all recent developments. The adoption proceedings are in the final stage and the court was told that the state government has launched an inquiry into the entire episode.

On Saturday, Veena rang up Anupama and conveyed the decision. Maintaining that the mother’s request is right and that the baby should live with the mother, Veena said the government is intervening now to prevent any further legal complications.

The minister has already ordered a probe by the secretary of the woman and child development into the circumstances that led to the alleged ‘forced separation’ of the infant from the mother. She has also sought a report on the actions initiated by the Child Welfare Committee after the baby had been received.

The preliminary report is expected in a day and the final report will be available in a few days, she said. The minister added she would check whether there were any lapses from the side of the department.

Thiruvananthapuram: The baby of former SFI leader Anupama S Chandran who was

allegedly taken away by her parents was adopted by a couple from Andhra Pradesh, it is

learnt. The child was adopted temporarily and the court proceedings to make the adoption

process permanent is progressing amid the controversies. Anupama S Chandran, the

Daughter of a Peroorkada CPI-M area committee member Jayachandran, came up with

Women and Family Welfare Minister Veena George said the state will take Anupama S Chandran’s demand for her child to the family court.

THE CPI(M)-led goverment in Kerala got into damage control mode Saturday as the alleged forcible separation of a boy from his mother, an SFI leader, snowballed into a controversy even as the aggrieved woman sat on protest in front of the secretariat.

Women and Family Welfare Minister Veena George said the state will take Anupama S Chandran’s demand for her child to the family court. She said before adoption formalities are completed, the court will be informed. It will also be told about the government investigation into the baby’s adoption.

The state women’s commission has also offered legal assistance to Chandran, 23, who protested before the state secretariat Saturday, demanding her son be returned. She ended her stir after the government promised to look into her demand.

Chandran has alleged that her parents, local CPI(M) leaders, forcibly took away her son last October, three days after her delivery. They allegedly considered the child illegitimate as Chandran’s partner Ajith Kumar, a DYFI leader, was then married to Nasiya, another party worker.

CPI(M) expresses solidarity with the mother

The State Government on Saturday appeared to scramble to contain the social and political fallout of the so-called ‘forced’ adoption case. It has sought legal opinion to move the court to cancel the child’s adoption and return the infant to its biological mother.

The police would investigate the questionable adoption process and the alleged falsification of the infant’s birth certificate to erase its true identity. They have already brought the child’s grandfather, a CPI(M) leader, under the ambit of its probe.

The compelling account of a young and unmarried mother’s futile search for her child “forcibly taken away from her three days after birth and given up for adoption’ via the Child Welfare Council (CWC) had resonated strongly among the public.

The controversy arguably cast the government in poor light after the woman, an SFI activist and daughter of a party leader, revealed how she and the child’s father, now married to her, was allegedly pushed from pillar to post by “CPI(M) apparatchiks and the police” in the two-year-old distressing quest for their ‘disappeared’ child.

Kozhikode: It is almost certain that the Thiruvananthapuram child missing case will get

embroiled in legal battle in the coming days as the state government has approached

Vanchiyoor Family Court to ensure justice.

Anupama S Chandran, a former member of SFI and the daughter of a Peroorkada CPI-M

area committee member Jayachandran, came up with the allegations against her family