Among the submissions made before the court were photographs of their children. The sessions court, while granting bail, stated that the photographs show that they had “no malafide intention of trafficking the children”, and that their intention was to adopt them.

WEEKS AFTER they were rescued by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch in an alleged interstate child-selling racket, six children between the ages of 18 months to seven years face an uncertain future, with officers saying they can neither be allowed to go back to the care of their biological parents who allegedly sold them nor returned to those who allegedly purchased them.

Since July, the six children have been put up at Bal Anand, a specialised adoption agency at Chembur as per the orders of the Mumbai Children Welfare Committee (CWC). The authorities have not ruled out giving them for adoption. But what is complicating the decision is that those who allegedly bought the children were treating them well and bringing them up like their own.

In some cases, the children had spent years with their new “parents”. The oldest child, a seven-year-old boy, had been living with the family from whom he was rescued for more than three years. While the police are yet to decide whether to name the biological parents as accused, some “adoptive” parents, who were arrested and released on bail, have approached the CWC for custody of their children, even temporarily, till a decision is taken on their fate.

“I had enrolled my child in one of the most prestigious playschool chains. He was in the middle of a vaccination cycle. When he was taken away from us, we were not even asked whether he has any medical needs or allergies. We were arrested and released on bail… we will be punished as per law. But right now, the children are suffering as their normal lives have been disrupted,” said a parent.

The petition has challenged Section 5(4) of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 which lays down that adoptive mothers will be eligible for maternity leave only if they adopt children who are less than 3 months old.

A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Constitutional validity of Section 5(4) of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 which lays down that adoptive mothers will be eligible for maternity leave only if they adopt children who are less than 3 months old (Hamsaanandini Nanduri v. Union of India).

As per the provision, a person has to be an adoptive parent to a child below three months to avail the benefit of 12 weeks maternity leave.

There is no provision for maternity leave at all for a mother adopting an orphaned, abandoned or surrendered child above the age of three months.

Such a distinction will lead to parents preferring to adopt a new born children as against older children, the petition filed by Hamsaanandini Nanduri said.

Germans are only allowed to adopt an adult refugee if their identity has been clarified. According to a judgment of the BGH, it must also be "morally justified".

When adopting an adult refugee, there must be a close personal relationship like that between parents and their child, demanded the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe in a decision published on Wednesday.

The specific case concerned an Afghan refugee who entered Germany via the Balkan route in 2016 without a passport and applied for asylum. At first he stated that he had just come of age. His birth parents are dead. A German couple from the Mayen-Koblenz district took the young man into their household.

OLG Koblenz and BGH show the limits of adoption

In the asylum procedure, the refugee later changed his date and place of birth. After his asylum application was rejected, the couple from the Mayen-Koblenz district applied for the refugee to be adopted. The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Koblenz rejected this.

Avoiding the Perils and Pitfalls of Intercountry Adoption from Non-Hague Countries: Considerations for Agencies and Adoptive Parents (Part I)

Adoption Advocate No. 80

Introduction

While adopting a child from another country, you receive word that the in-country court has scheduled the final guardianship or adoption hearing. You make travel plans with your family to be in-country for just a few weeks. After all, once you appear for the in-country court proceeding, you are sure that this very long process will be almost over. You assume that the last step--procuring a visa from your own government, the United States--will be quick and painless.

Sometimes it is, and you are soon on your flight home, exactly as scheduled, with the newest addition to your family. Other times, your family is not so fortunate, and you spend weeks or months, thousands of dollars, and every ounce of patience trying to prove to the U.S. Department of State and ultimately, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), that your child is truly an orphan under U.S. law and eligible for a visa to enter the U.S.

Sit for any time in the foyer of the Hilton Hotel in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and you'll see a procession of Americans and Europeans wandering from their rooms across the marble floor to the restaurant or swimming pool with their precious new possessions - babies or infants they've just adopted.

I'd never really thought a great deal about international adoption until I was confronted with the scene as I checked into the hotel in September last year.

I'd arrived to film a story for ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent program about the drought-induced famine.

The longer I stayed, the more I started to think about the adopted children - where they were from and how they must feel to suddenly find themselves alone with someone whose skin colour doesn't match theirs and whose language they don't speak.

They're dressed in alien attire - a brand new Red Sox baseball cap and T-shirt with some cute and cheery foreign slogan plastered across the front - and in an environment like none they've ever seen, when just out on the street is the one they know so well, where their extended family and fellow countrymen reside.

On a cold afternoon in 2017, I was fighting off the urge for a nap when a message popped up on Facebook:

Ms. Demick. You contacted me a long time ago? Are you still interested in talking with me? If so, my family and I are interested.

I was the New York correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and was exhausted from covering the aftermath of the presidential inauguration. I tapped out a curt reply, saying I didn’t know who he was.

My mom adopted a little Chinese girl years ago … and it appears like she has a twin sister still in China.

I bolted upright. Of course I hadn’t forgotten.

ORANGEVALE, Calif. — They live thousands of miles apart, they speak different languages, but they are definitely twin sisters.

They have the same biological parents in China, but they never knew it until years later.

Mia and her twin, Alexandra, were found in a cardboard box and taken to an orphanage in 2003. Mia went home to the Sacramento suburb of Orangevale, Calif., with Andy and Angela Hansen. Her sister went home with Sigmund and Wenche Hauglum of Fresvik, Norway.

Both their families met during the adoption process in Changsha in China's Hunan province. The families felt very strongly that the girls were twins.

"They looked exactly alike," Angela Hansen said. "We were told they were not twins."

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About a dozen of women on Friday October 23, attacked and beat up Madam Maria Morgan Luyken, accused of trafficking over 550 Liberian children out of the country to the United States at the entrance of the Cafeteria at the Temple of Justice.

She had gone into the cafeteria to speak to her lawyer before the final verdict in the child trafficking case against her. It was at that point that she was intercepted by supporters of the mothers who have filed the child trafficking case against her.

It took the efforts of court securities and others to rescue her from lynching by the angry women.

The beating up of Maria Morgan Luyken on the grounds of the Supreme Court came hours before a child trafficking guilty verdict was handed down against her at the Criminal Court “B”.

The incident on Friday, is a clear example of how the country appears to be sliding into lawlessness. Attacking a person on the grounds of the Temple of Justice is prohibited here.

Several parents whose children were allegedly trafficked by Madam Maria Morgan-Luyken have threatened a peaceful protest in demand of justice in order to draw the attention of the Government of Liberia and the international partners over delays in sentencing the accused.

The aggrieved parents say the accused, Madam Morgan – Luyken was found guilty by Criminal Court ‘’B’’ for trafficking – in – person, but it has taken over seven years and she has not been sentenced.

Speaking in an interview at the ground of the Temple of Justice, Matherline Johnson, spokesperson of the aggrieved parents, said they are tired of being left alone because they have not received any information from the government regarding the sentencing of the lady.

She explained that they have met the Assistant Justice Minister for Litigation Cllr. Weseh A. Wesseh several times and he told them to go to the Ministry of Labor to get more information concerning the case.

Matherline indicated that they believe that their children are dead because since Madam Morgan – Luyken was found guilty, the accused has not been able to bring back their children or face her sentence.