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Childless on waiting list hesitates with Danish adoption

An adoption from abroad can cost up to 300,000 kroner, while a Danish one is free. At the same time, it goes faster. Nevertheless, so far relatively few want to switch from the international to the Danish waiting list.

For the first time in many years, there are more Danish than foreign children for adoption.

Figures from the National Board of Appeal show that 40 children born in Denmark were adopted in 2020.

In comparison, 23 adopted children came here from abroad, which is a record few.

This has led the National Board of Appeal to offer couples and singles who are on a waiting list for a foreign child to move to the list of Danish children.

Delhi High Court issues notice to adoption authority for causing delay in giving child to OCI couple

The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) in a petition filed by a couple, who are Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holders and had registered with CARA for adoption of a child in 2018.

A Single-Judge Bench of Justice Rekha Palli was on Monday hearing a plea to treat the petitioners at par with Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and Resident Indian Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) in

terms of seniority of adoption and direct CARA to refer the child legally free for adoption to them.

According to the plea, the petitioners are OCI card holders and have been residing in India since 2017. They registered with CARA for adoption of a child on March 22, 2018 and their date of seniority was from May 16, 2018, yet they have not received a referral for a child.

The petitioners claimed to know PAPs, who have registered in August, 2018, with the same

Rewriting the adoption narrative

This article is the 10th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Among the first wave of transracial adoptees from Korea to the United States, Alice Stephens shares her journey to the truth of the origin of her life. Her story enlightens us to the fact that adoptees' lives are closely intertwined with the political turmoil of Korean's modern history beyond our imagination.

By Alice Stephens

Born in 1967 to a Korean mother and an American soldier father, I was one of the first generation of inter-country adoptees.

Indeed, inter-country adoption began because of mixed-race children like me. We were considered as a blight upon the blood-line, unworthy of being Korean. According to the system of census taking that existed then, in order to be entered into the family registry, the child had to be fathered by a Korean man. Those of us with foreign fathers were unable to be registered, and therefore ineligible for essential government services, such as education and medical care. From the beginning, the bureaucracy conspired to erase us from existence.

Ironically, women like my mother were crucial to Korea's struggling economy, bringing in desperately needed U.S. dollars. Though prostitution was ostensibly illegal, the government not only tolerated but abetted it. U.S. military and Korean local and national government officials coordinated efforts to regulate prostitution and monitor sex workers for sexually transmitted diseases. Both countries saw the sex trade as vital to keeping the massive contingent of U.S. troops in the country, their presence essential to the national economy.

Romanian Adoption Policy Examined as Human Rights Issue

Washington -- Contemporary child development research shows unequivocally that placing infants in hospital or orphanage care for longer than 4-6 months permanently damages them in terms of their cognitive, emotional and behavioral development, an expert witness told a congressional hearing September 14.

“A reasonable estimate is that an infant loses 1-2 IQ points per month and sustains predictable losses in growth as well as motor and language development between 4 and 24 months of age while living in an institutional environment,” said the witness, Dr. Dana Johnson, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and director of the International Adoption Clinic.

Dr. Johnson’s testimony underscored why the United States Helsinki Commission – a body that monitors human rights issues – was holding a hearing on the impact of Romania’s newly implemented ban on intercountry adoptions, a ban characterized by the commission’s chairman as “undeniably a human rights abuse.”

The European Union (EU) also came in for heavy criticism by commission members because of the role it has played in pressuring Romania to adopt the new law.

Commission Co-chairman Christopher Smith opened the hearing by providing a brief overview of the problem. As a legacy of Nicolae Ceaucescu’s dictatorial rule, the abandonment of children has been a serious problem in Romania for decades.

Helsinki Commission Testimony

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

“Helsinki Commission”

Testimony of

Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs

Maura Harty

Parliamentary paper 2001-2002 28457 No. 3

28 457

Regulation of conflict of laws regarding adoption and the recognition of foreign adoptions (Adoption Conflict of Laws Act)

no. 3

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

The advice of the Council of State is not made public, because it reads in agreement without further ado/only contains comments of an editorial nature (Article 25a(4)(b) of the Council of State Act) I. Introduction

Deep State Blocking Adoptions

Deep State Blocking Adoptions

Larry ProvostLarry Provost|Posted: Apr 11, 2018 12:01 AM

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A State Department official that once implied that a prominent American international adoption advocate had “racist and colonialist notions” is now in charge of international adoptions at that agency and, according to a group called SaveAdoptions , is destroying the chances for orphaned children worldwide to get adopted by families who have lined up to rescue them.

The official, Trish Maskew, was hired in 2014 as the Adoption Chief in the Department of State’s Office of Children’s Issues (OCI). Prior to her State Department tenure, Maskew testified that “Adoption is one of the most unregulated industries in America today” and implied that adoption agencies need to be shut down. This is not the only time Maskew, prior to her tenure at the State Department, took a jab at adoption advocates.

Pure ellende in Roemeense kindertehuizen/Pure misery in Romanian children's homes

Pure ellende in Roemeense kindertehuizen Door Carine Neefjes correspondent in Den Haag

De zeven dagen die Zef Hendriks in Roemenië doorbracht, vormen voor hem de meest bewogen week van zn leven. De directeur van de Nederlandse adoptie-organisatie Wereldkinderen bezocht er tehuizen waar kleine kinderen wonen. „Ik heb nog nooit zo iets treurigs gezien. Magere, ongezonde kindertjes die nauwelijks speelgoed hebben. Alleen een geel, plastic eendje, dat boven de gammele bedjes hangt. Als het kind zn armpjes uitstrekt, kan het met het beestje spelen".

Hendriks is geschrokken van de situatie in Roemenië. Toen hij vorige week vertrok, was hij tamelijk onverschillig. Gewoon een zakenreisje, dacht hij. Even kijken of Nederlanders ook Roemeentjes kunnen adopteren.

Zo veel ellende bij elkaar, had Hendriks niet verwacht. „Ik ben in vier kindertehuizen in Boekarest geweest. Vreselijk. Kinderen liggen in ijzeren, gespijlde bedden. Het lijkt net alsof ze achter tralies zitten. Matrassen zijn kapot, dekens en lakens zitten vol gaten. Overal ruikt het naar urine. De luiers zijn flinterdun en nemen het vocht niet op. En er is geen zuster die het kind kan verschonen".

„Het ergste is dat kinderen niet kunnen spelen. En dat is juist zo belangrijk voor een kind. Als het niet speelt, zal het later nooit goed terechtkomen. Een kind heeft stimulans nodig. Vergelijk de situatie met een jongere die niet naar school gaat, of een volwassene die nooit werkt: die belanden vroeg of laat ook in de goot".

„Nauwelijks adopties Roemeense wezen Twee kinderen aangekomen op Schiphol

Gepubliceerd op: 15 oktober 1990

„Nauwelijks adopties Roemeense wezen

Twee kinderen aangekomen op Schiphol

DEN HAAG — Er zullen waarschijnlijk niet veel Roemeense kinderen meer door Nederlandse gezinnen kunnen worden geadopteerd. Het probleem is dat de overvolle weeshuizen in Roemenië nauwelijks over „afstandsverklaringen" beschikken die nodig zijn voor de adoptieprocedure. Dat verwacht J. Braat van de Vereniging Wereldkinderen, die zich inzet voor het welzijn van kinderen in de wereld.

Op zaterdag arriveerden op Schiphol twee wezen uit Roemenië, voor wie wel een afstandsverklaring kon worden overgelegd. Het gaat om een meisje (Eléna) van vier jaar en een jongen (Robert) van drie. Beiden zijn afkomstig uit het weeshuis "Leagenul de Copii" te Boekarest.