There will be easier access to their files prior to adoption and the organization of meetings with their former caregivers in orphanages, according to Ni Chunxia, ??deputy director of the Department of Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

China will facilitate children adopted abroad search biological family

New regulation issued by the Government of China came into effect this month and contemplates actions such as coverage of the expenses of the visits of the returnees. (Photo: EFE)

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Shanghai. The Chinese government said it will make "a greater effort" to help children born in China and adopted by foreign families to explore their roots and find their biological parents, the government newspaper China Daily reported today.

More effort will be made to help children adopted by foreign families explore their Chinese roots, a senior official said on Friday.

That includes easier access to their pre-adoption archives, and arranging meetings with their former caretakers in orphanages, said Ni Chunxia, deputy-director of the Department of Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

"Local authorities should continue the nonprofit nature of such assistance and try to offer assistance that is more humane, professional and tailored with the aim of helping foster children to grow healthily," she said.

Adoptees can find local civil affairs bureaus' contact information at cccwa.mca.gov.cn?the official website of the China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption, Ni added.

The pledge came after the ministry released a regulation in November aiming to facilitate such endeavors. According to the new rules, which took effect this month, local authorities are not allowed to charge fees for such services.

Movie Report: Amy or Tigist? - An adoption story

Katrine W. Kjær is a document instructor and known for the film "The Adoption's Prize" (2012).

It is about the 4-year-old Masho and her 2-year-old little brother who are adopted away from Ethiopia to a family in Holbæk. The project does not go very well. Masho can't fall because the connection between child and adoptive parents fails and she ends up being sent to orphanages.

The fact that the case is so far from a single case of harassment is documented by a number of other adoption examples. One of them, Katrine W. Kjær has chosen to make another movie and given it the title "Amy's Will".

The story

'AMY'S WILL' - NEW STRONG TV 2 DOCUMENTARY

Amy travels back to Ethiopia hoping to be reunited with her family. The trip doesn't quite go as she had hoped. (Photos: Sunday Pictures / TV 2)

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TV 2 Dokumentar has for a number of years followed Amy, who was adopted away to Denmark and feels let down by both Danish and Ethiopian authorities. The documentary 'Amy's will' is sent on TV 2 and TV 2 PLAY on Thursday 24 January.

By Lene Pind, TV 2 Communication

Do you remember Amy? Now the girl who shook the adoption system is back

Ten years ago, Denmark was shocked by the story of the adoption child Amy. A new documentary shows how it went since the girl who never really fell. But the film is strongest when it also dares to show that we may not always be able to return to what we come from.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family!

The quote, which I saw on a friend's bulletin board, remembered me under the new documentary about Amy Steen, who, against her will, was adopted to Denmark as a 9-year-old. For, of course, it is beautiful to begin world peace by loving the people who brought us here. But it's never that simple.

Amy Steen was born in Ethiopia, but adopted as the biological mother thought she was going to die from AIDS. In Denmark, an adoptive family was ready, but the match was never good, and in time Amy moved to a foster family. It was from here she was removed in 2012, because the adoptive family thought it was best with more "professional frames". I never think I forget the pictures of the pixelated officials holding the screaming and fighting child from the "Adoption Prize".

The process can be extremely difficult and lengthy, especially when it pertains to foreigners adopting an Indian child.

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An Italian couple has adopted two orphan brothers

Two Spanish couples have adopted two girls

They have completed verification, got court permission & are left with passport formalities

TV premiere of Amy's will

TV PREMIERE. Ethiopian girl Amy was adopted to Denmark as a 10-year-old. In Katrine W. Kjær's documentary 'Amy's Will', we follow Amy, as as a teenager she decides to actively go against the Danish authorities and return to her biological family. Watch the film on TV 2 on Thursday 24 January at. 20:00.

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When Amy was 10 years old, she and her little sister became adopted to Denmark and left their mother and older sister in Ethiopia. However, Amy has never settled in her new Danish family. She is afflicted by grief after the loss of her biological family, and she wants her adoption abolished.

Do you remember adopting Amy, who was forcibly removed? Here she is today

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Amy, who was forcibly removed as a 12-year-old, is current in a new documentary. In the video you can see Amy explaining how she has it today and see a clip from the new documentary where Amy gets forced back in 2012. Show more

Amy Steen became famous in 2012 when she was forcefully removed from her foster family, and the violent scenes since then went around the country.

Originally, Amy Steen was adopted from Ethiopia and has for many years struggled with the system to allow her to see her biological family. Today, however, everything has changed.

'AMY'S WILL' - NEW STRONG TV 2 DOCUMENT

Amy travels back to Ethiopia hoping to be reunited with her family. The trip doesn't quite go as she had hoped. (Photos: Sunday Pictures / TV 2)

01/22/2019

TV 2 Dokumentar has for a number of years followed Amy, who was adopted away to Denmark and feels let down by both Danish and Ethiopian authorities. The documentary "Amy's will" is sent on TV 2 and TV 2 PLAY on Thursday 24 January.

By Lene Pind, TV 2 Communication

Amy feels she was bought and sold as a commodity when she was adopted from Ethiopia to Denmark

When Amy was 15 years old, she found out that you were paying money when adopting a child. She asked, "Isn't it just human trafficking with a finer word?"

She's split. She feels like a man divided into two. Amy Rebecca Steen is Ethiopian, but has lived in Denmark half of her 20-year-old life. Her mother and older sister, her grandfather and the rest of her family live in Ethiopia. Her little sister lives in Næstved at the adoptive family, where she herself lived the first year and a half of her time in Denmark before moving to a foster family because her adoptive parents did not power her.

"When I was 15 years old, I found out that you pay money when you adopt. And I remember I asked if it's not just human trafficking with a finer word? "

Amy and her sister were adopted through the agency DanAdopt in 2009, and in 2013, the agency was deprived of the right to convey adoptions from Ethiopia, because the National Board of Appeal considered that there were doubts as to whether the adoptions were ethically and legally justifiable. Several Ethiopian women told then that they felt pressured to adopt their children.