When your life begins in a cot in the orphanage: "That somebody does not care, it stays that way"

She wrote hundreds of applications, had dozens of auditions: Acting is Luminita Arza's life. The job has helped her to understand her life. She started as an orphan in a Romanian hospital.

Luminita is Romanian and means something like "little light". But Luminita Arza spent the first years of her life in darkness: the two years after her birth she spent with other children in a barren room full of cots, which was only entered a few times a day by nurses to bring food. Luminita represents a whole generation of Romanian children left behind by their poor, often Roma-born families just after birth.

Because a German foster mother adopted her, Luminita Arza was able to start afresh in Germany. In her youth, she decided to become an actress. After training at a private school followed a job application marathon - with vocal exercises, countless letters of application and painful rejections.

She wants to live her dream - absolutely

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Yanien uit Apeldoorn werd als kind ontvoerd voor adoptie: Ik ging kapot van verdriet

Help ons bij de zoektocht naar de waarheid. Het is de diepste wens van Indonesische adoptiekinderen die tussen 1973 en 1983 illegaal naar Nederland kwamen en nu hun biologische familie willen vinden. Ze zoeken financiële steun voor een rechtszaak tegen de Nederlandse staat. „Als ik mijn biologische moeder niet had gevonden, dan was ik nu waarschijnlijk dood.“

Missing child found in Punjab

The boy had been playing with other children when he went missing

A child, who went missing from north Delhi's Lahori Gate when he was three years old, was traced to Punjab and reunited with his family after six years by the Delhi Police's Crime Branch, police said on Friday.

A reward of Rs 50,000 had been declared for any information leading to his recovery, they added.

The investigation into the case was transferred to the Crime Branch by the Delhi High Court.

Transgender Mom of 9 Children: “Most Meaningful Thing She’s Ever Done”

Posted on June 22, 2018by WACAP

Finding out who we are is the story we’re all writing. It’s that journey of identity and becoming that Kathryn reflects on, as a parent of 9, as a person who’s transgender, and as a mom beloved.

By Kristin Kalning

Kathryn Mahan remembers when she knew she’d been born into the wrong body. “I was four years old, and in kindergarten,” Mahan recalls. “There was an event that happened with a little girl named Madeline, and I realized that I wasn’t like the other kids.” That’s because Kathryn, now 61, was born Harold Lamont Mahan.

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INDORE: The woman and child welfare department will hold a fair on June 24 to help issuelesscouples, who want to adopt a child, and sensitise them about the adoption process.

In the fair, parents, who want to adopt child, will be told about how to make registration on Central Adoption Resource Authority (www.cara.nic.in) and upload documents including birth, age proof, marriage registration, residence proof and family photos to qualify for the adoption.

“Through the fair to be organised in Jawara Compound at Lions Club’s office, we will help issueless couples to follow due process further to adopt an orphan or abandoned or surrendered child,” divisional joint director Rajesh Mehra told TOI.

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KOCHI:The state government on Wednesday submitted before the Kerala High Court that children in Janaseva Sisubhavan, an orphanage in Aluva, were sexually abused and suffered physical torture. Besides, 62 kids went missing from the centre.

Meanwhile, Janaseva sought permission to withdraw the petition against taking over the children’s home and the court dismissed the petition as withdrawn. The state also made a revelation it apprehended children being brought to the state from outside states by Janaseva Sisuhavan, an orphanage at Aluva, for the purpose of human trafficking and for other allied activities.

A full-fledged investigation is needed to unearth the truth in this regard. Aluva Janaseva, which is the petitioner in the case, is a non-governmental organisation running two children’s homes - one at Mekkad, Ernakulam, for boys and another at Aluva for girls. Out of the 104 children, 60 are boys and 44 are girls.

The Social Justice Department submitted that Aluva Janaseva failed to give an explanation regarding the missing of children from the home. The institution has no registration contemplated under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

In France, the official adoption service of Seine-Maritime (Normandy) has publicly said that gay couples are "deviant" and therefore should also adopt "deviant" children, such as children with disabilities or psychological problems. Discriminatory statements that cause a stir among our southern neighbors.

It was Pascale Lemare of the adoption service who made the bold statements on the local radio France Bleu. According to her, gay couples are "deviant in terms of social and biological norms". "If they provide children with deviant problems in their adoption plans… If they have open expectations, then they can indeed adopt children," it said. An interest group has already filed a complaint and the government of President Macron spoke of "impermissible discrimination".

Four gay couples with adopted children

Correspondent Frank Renout states in 'The Morning' that the gay people in France themselves are not surprised. Marie-Claude Picardat of the French Association of Gay Parents says the advisory boards that decide on adoptive children are sometimes homophobic, rejecting gays and lesbians as adoptive parents.

Same-sex marriage was legalized in France five years ago. Since then, according to Picardat, only four married gay couples have adopted children.

At present, prospective adoptive parents have to go to civil or family courts to get the final go-ahead after completing all other formalities related to adoption, and the whole process often takes years.

At present, prospective adoptive parents have to go to civil or family courts to get the final go-ahead after completing all other formalities related to adoption, and the whole process often takes years.(Photo for representation)

An inter-ministerial panel headed by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has cleared a proposal making district magistrates the final authority to clear child adoption cases, in a bid to quicken a process that is often hit by year-long delays, three government officials aware of the development said.

At present, prospective adoptive parents have to go to civil or family courts to get the final go-ahead after completing all other formalities related to adoption. But with pendency high in civil and family courts, people familiar with the adoption process say it is not easy to get a date for hearing.

“The Sushma Swaraj-led group of ministers has cleared the union women and child (WCD) ministry’s proposal to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and incorporate a clause allowing courts of district magistrate to pass the adoption order,” said one of the officials cited above.

Pornstar and Bollywood actor Sunny Leone has found herself in a spot of bother after her husband Daniel Weber on Sunday decided to mark Father’s Day by posting a semi-naked photo of his family including that of their adopted daughter Nisha.

Sunny Leone

In the photo posted by Weber (whose identity on Instagram is @dirty99) posted the seemingly naked photo of their adopted daughter with the caption, “This is Fathers Day!!! The greatest love one can imagine !!! Thank You @sunnyleone for meeting Nisha Kaur and Falling in Love for both of us !!! You are always the one who knows Best. She is everything and has stole my heart forever !!!! Xoxoxo Thank You !!!! (sic)”

In the photo (see below), Leone appears to be unclothed. The child also seems to be without any clothes on with only Leone’s hands covering the little girl’s modesty. Weber, for his part, is seen lying next to both of them shirtless. It seems the photo has been taken by another individual.

The post evoked such nasty responses that some of them can’t even be reproduced here. They included vulgar comments for Leone targeting her for her porn business. There were also ‘pedophilia’ jibes aimed at Weber. Among the ‘saner’ comments, one user manal.hq wrote, “shame of India.” Another user sarcastically commented, “when u have addiction on being naked.” “Why are you naked?” asked one user. Many also wondered if the person clicking the photo was also naked. The overall theme of the public outrage was that they had subjected even a little girl to public exposure wearing little or no clothes.