There were 77 international adoptions in B.C. last year, down from 117 in 2012/2013. (Shutterstock)

One of B.C.'s small handful of licensed adoption agencies is closing its doors, blaming a drop in the number of international adoptions.

Family Services of Greater Vancouver's (FSGV) adoption agency will officially shut down on Nov. 1, after 21 years in operation and more than 700 children placed with adoptive families.

"We're really saddened to have to make a decision to close the adoption agency," FSGV's vice president Jessica Denholm told CBC.

International adoptions decline dramatically in Canada

Bathinda, October 17

The minor pregnant rape victim has given birth to a baby girl at Women and Children Hospital here. A day after the delivery, the newborn was handed over to the District Child Welfare Committee.

The mother and the infant are healthy after a normal delivery that took place two days ago at the hospital. The infant weighs around 3.8 kg which is a sign of a healthy baby, said a doctor.

Sukhjinder Singh Gill, Senior Medical Officer, Women and Children Hospital, Bathinda, said, “Since both mother and infant were healthy, the latter has been handed over to the District Child Welfare Committee on family members’ request. Now, they will follow up the process of child’s adoption further.”

Talking to Bathinda Tribune, Ravneet Sidhu, District Child Protection Officer, said, “Since the newborn has been surrendered by the mother and her family, she will be under observation for two months at the child adoption agency. Thereafter, we will seek approval for her adoption from the local court before the process of adoption can be initiated. It seems that adoption will take a few months. During the two-month period, parents or family members of the baby can claim the child after which (if they don’t) we will initiate the process of adoption.”

Adoption Process India

When it comes to adoption, the most important factor is doing all the work in a timely manner, be it registration or uploading documents or reserving referral. Everything has a predefined time limit, which is why, it is really important to know what to do, when to do and how to go ahead with the process. CARA website does have all the guidelines but at the same time, there are certain dos and don’ts which only parents who have adopted can share since they have the first-hand experience. I make sure to educate every Prospective Adoptive Parent (PAP) that approaches me with these facts so that they are well informed and quite well prepared. Below are some pointers for the process of registration and post referral.

Before registration

Enlist specialized adoption agencies (SAA) near your home which is registered with CARA

Decide on which states you want to choose from.

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Dongri boy returns as Dutch commissioner

Jamil Meusen shaking a leg at a dandiya event in Bhayander. Photo by Nilesh Wairkar/ BCCL

As a three-year-old, he was a resident of Dongri children’s observation home, Now, as a 48-year-old, Jamil Meusen returns to the home to inspire the children and tell them that nothing is impossible.

Meusen, who was adopted by a couple in Netherlands when he was six, is now the police commissioner of a district in the Netherlands. On Monday, Meusen will speak to the children and also start some community development projects for the observation home.

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Kiran Gustafsson traveled to India to find his biological mother. Instead, she found her unknown twin brother.

"I've always thought she was the answer, but I was wrong. He was the answer all the time, she says.

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"I have been very wrestling with my feelings for India, where there is poverty and bureaucracy, but when you look past it and see the beauty, you never want to go home. I've learned a lot about myself through your travels there," says Kiran Gustafsson. She has now vacated her job as a labor secretary at Malmö City to spend six months in India with her twin brother.

Time Travel: Orphans for Africa

Ruth is seven years old when she has to leave Germany. Together with 82 other children, she had been chosen for a new life. South Africans had achieved that the youth welfare offices selected Schleswig-Holstein's children for the "Dietse Kinderfond". This was an organization of right-wing Boers. Their motives for the adoption were compassion, desire for children and also the idea of ??"white blood" to strengthen their own position in apartheid.

State government gives the green light for adoption

The request of the organization was even on the agenda of a Cabinet meeting of the Schleswig-Holstein state government. As a result, the ministers actually voted in favor of the collective adoption of German children to South Africa. In Lübeck, they were checked for health and vaccinated, in 1948 they boarded an English ship and drove with him to the other side of the world. When Ruth arrived in Cape Town, she had nothing with her except a vaccination certificate. Everything else had been lost on the journey. A vaccination certificate with her name and an ocher dress, that's all. With that she started her new life.

Long way from Kolberg over Lübeck to South Africa

It was in the end July that a girl child’s scream and a concerned neighbour’s call to the child helpline lifted the lid on the gory saga of a child sex racket in the temple town of Yadadri. The eight-year old girl Manjula (name changed) who was coerced to witness sexual acts of adults during night time was forced to complete household chores during day. The tired girl was punished with a hot spatula for not obeying the commands of her pseudo mother Kamsani Kalyani.

Upon questioning by the police, Kalyani spilled beans that the girl was not her child but was procured from a pimp Kamsani Shankar and was groomed into the flesh trade. The lady further revealed that young girls are generally taught tricks of the trade at an early stage of their lives. After investigation, the police have sealed 22 houses and arrested 30 people, including several women, on August 2, 2018. The police slapped cases under IPC sections 370A, 371 and 366, relevant sections of POCSO Act and the PD Act. Police hope conviction of at least 10 accused under the PD Act (Preventive Detention Act).

A registered medical practitioner (RMP) Venkat Reddy in the vicinity helped the mothers to transform the girls into women by pumping hormones. The doctor also helped the trade by illegally terminating pregnancies. The Anuradha Maternity Clinic in Ganesh Nagar of Yadadri is now being sealed and the doctor has been arrested under sections 420, 419 of IPC, Section 26 of Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Section 15 of the Indian Medical Council Act 1956.

Many ampoules of Oxytocin, referred as love hormone, were found in the clinic located close to the Yadadri Hill. Oxytocin is a hormone and a neurotransmitter that is involved in childbirth and breast-feeding. It is also associated with empathy, trust, sexual activity, and relationship-building. It is said that the love hormone shoots in blood during hugging and orgasm.

A view of Yadadri Main Road.