‘Push for adoption’ causing ‘unprecedented level of state intrusion in family life’

Legal Action for Women publishes dossier quantifying ‘discriminatory treatment’

A dossier, published by Legal Action for Women, describes and seeks to quantify 'the traumatic and discriminatory treatment of children, mothers and grandmothers by the state and the institutions who are in charge of child protection'.

The organisation has published the dossier because, it says, the crisis in women's lives has had little publicity and that 'it is generally not known how widespread the intervention of the state in families is'.

Suffer the little children & their mothers states that new research shows that local authorities with the highest adoption rates also have the highest increase in children in care. Prioritising adoption over support for families has led to a 65% increase in the number of children separated from their parents. According to the dossier, single mothers, immigrant mothers, teenage mothers and mothers on low incomes, of colour, and those with learning difficulties are particularly vulnerable. Women who suffer rape and/or domestic violence are most likely to have their children removed.

In short: Nigel and ISS want individual decisions per child (micro level), while the Ministry/RSJ must look from the perspective of the macro-level.

The RSJ does quote from my article about the differences between UNCRC, Hague. But does not take that further.

They chicken out, and say it "subsidiarity cannot be properly observed"

But, whatever... RSJ killed the Hague subsidiarity, but also art 21b of the UNCRC.

They fully killed it all. Knowingly or unknowingly.

Adoptive couples’ only hope is High Court, which could hand them the custody again.

Four families which accepted lifelong responsibility of unwanted babies and nurtured them for months have been torn apart by a hurried police inquiry into suspicions of interstate child trafficking that have proved unfounded.

In December, the Mankhurd police snatched from the families four babies — whose biological parents didn’t have the resources or will to raise them — assuming the infants had been abducted from Mumbai and sold in Goa, Karnataka, and Gujarat.

The infants, now aged between 5 months and 10 months, were placed in a government-approved shelter’s care only for cops to conclude that no real crime had been committed: the biological parents had willingly consented to their children being raised in a new family.

The realisation came too late as the infants’ immediate future is now ensnared in legal complexities, which do not favour the four adoptive families.

“Lion gives an insight into the lives of children who have been adopted and I hope will push more Western countries to recognize the need for and benefits of adoption. There are so many kids who never end up in a loving family and there are so many loving families who want a child.”

The incredible true story of Indian-born Australian Saroo Brierley and his unwavering determination to find his lost family and finally return to his first home is now realised in all its splendour on the big screen in Lion.

Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train travelling away from his home and family. Frightened and bewildered, he ends up thousands of miles away, in chaotic Kolkata.

Somehow he survives living on the streets, escaping all sorts of terrors and close calls in the process, before ending up in an orphanage that is itself not exactly a safe haven. Eventually Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple, and finds love and security as he grows up in Hobart. Not wanting to hurt his adoptive parents’ feelings, he suppresses his past, his emotional need for reunification, and his hope of ever finding his lost mother and brother.

But a chance meeting with some fellow Indians reawakens his buried yearning. With just a small store of memories, and the help of a new technology called Google Earth, Saroo embarks on one of the greatest needle-in-a-haystack quests of modern times.

Date: 19/01/17

Poland, the Central Authority reduced to 2 authorized centers for international adoptions

PolandStill difficulties in the world of adoption. Poland comes in fact the decision of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy of r idurre to two the number of Polish centers accredited to handle the procedures for international adoptions . The ministry, which is also the central authority for international adoptions in Warsaw, issued its notice in the Official Gazette of the Government on Tuesday 17 January. The news on its website the US Department of State , US Central Authority.

The only centers authorized by the Polish government to handle international adoptions are now the Diocesan Center for Adoption , based in Sosnowiec, and the Catholic Center for Adoption , based in Warsaw.

Conversely, the Children's Friends Society and the TPD Public Adoption Center, both located in the capital, are no longer allowed to operate in the field of international adoptions.

Children unnecessarily removed from parents, report claims

Dossier indicates drive to increase adoptions is punitive for low-income families and alternatives exist

The research found a 65% rise in the number of children that are separated from their parents since 2001.

Sandra Laville

Wednesday 18 January 2017 07.00 GMT Last modified on Wednesday 18 January 2017 22.00 GMT

Poland

January 18, 2017

Notice: Restructure of international adoption process

On January 17, 2017 the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy (Ministry), Poland’s Central Authority for intercountry adoptions, published a notice in the official government gazette, Monitor Polski, announcing a reduction in the number of Polish adoption centers accredited to process international adoptions from three to two. The only centers authorized by the Polish government to handle international adoptions are the Diocesan Adoption Center in Sosnowiec and the Catholic Adoption Center in Warsaw. The Children’s Friends Society and TPD Public Adoption Center, both located in Warsaw, are no longer approved to facilitate international adoptions. We understand this will affect all international adoptions under the Hague Convention, not only those to the United States.

The U.S. Embassy in Warsaw is in communication with the Ministry to clarify the requirements applicable both to future adoption processing and to those cases already in process. The Department is closely monitoring this situation and will post a new notice when additional information becomes available.

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Date: 17/01/15

Adoptions, broke the case of the non-profit organization Enzo B: families pay, but no children

etiopia2Dozens of families would be entrusted to non-profit Turin Enzo B to adopt a child in Ethiopia, they would have shelled out in advance sums up to over 10 thousand euro, and they would not receive any services in return, without ever to conclude the adoption. Now the prosecutor of Turin has opened an investigation. He talks about it in this article, published Sunday, January 15th by the newspaper "La Repubblica", which we quote in full.

The case of Ethiopia will be the damnation of Enzo B, the agency for international adoptions was born in Turin in 2004 who is accused of dozens of families had set up a colossal scam that has been going on since at least 2011. Even the prosecutor in Turin opened an investigation after the complaint of a family. Are more than a hundred couples who wanted to adopt and which tell that it has assigned tasks to the Turin non-profit organization to provide a home for orphaned children in Ethiopia. All contributions have been sought in advance to figures ranging from 3750 EUR for training days, up to more than ten thousand euro. Without, in return, receive any services. And above all, never to conclude the adoption.

The procedures have remained for years in the drawers of the office via Onorato Vigliani, in the "Village" of Enzo B, in some cases have never even been translated. Only in 2013 the institution has indicated that the African country had closed adoptions taps, and Notwithstanding it seems to have continued to take positions until 2014. For anyone going to knock on the door of the non-profit organization founded by Stefano Bernardi and Cristina Nespoli, the answer is silence.

Strongsville adoption agency accused of soliciting bribes, withholding money

Mona Kosar Abdi

8:54 PM, Jan 13, 2017

STRONGSVILLE - We are taking a closer look at an adoption agency in Strongsville after It was debarred by the state department. The feds accuse European Adoption Consultants of allegedly soliciting bribes – among other crimes.

News 5 spoke with one family who spent tens of thousands on their adoption process and now is stuck with radio silence.