Only 34 children were adopted in Queensland over the past year – an 80 per cent plunge from the total two decades ago.

Adoptions have fallen across the state from the 170 children adopted in 1995-96.

Of the 34 children adopted in Queensland in 2019-20, 11 were adopted from overseas, according to data due to be released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) on Wednesday.

There were 12 “local” adoptions in Queensland, where children born or permanently living in Australia had no prior contact or relationship with the adoptive parents, while 11 were “known” adoptions.

Queensland politicians are set to debate legislation, sparked by the tragic death of toddler Mason Jet Lee, that would make adoption a third option in deciding how to achieve permanency for a child, except for an Indigenous child.

AN OUTSIDE CONSULTING firm was hired by the government to “expedite” the process of setting up a redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes, the Department of Children has said.

The government has hired OAK Consulting to oversee the consultation process at a cost of €20,000.

The process was launched by Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman last week. The closing date for receipt of written submissions is 31 March.

OAK will also facilitate a number of “consultation events with interested parties” between 22 March and 29 March. These meetings will be online due to Covid-19 restrictions.

The meetings are scheduled to last for three hours each, and attendees can bring a “support person” with them.

Between 1980 and 2000, around 14,000 children from destabilized countries such as Sri Lanka or Lebanon were adopted in Switzerland. While the adoptive parents believed that all was right, the Swiss authorities knew that many documents were wrong.

In fact, in many cases there was a real baby trade - children were stolen from mothers, documents were forged. The adoptions took place mainly through controversial placement organizations - also in Switzerland - which responded to the great demand for childless couples. And the Swiss authorities did nothing about it. In March 2019, “DOK” showed how such a baby trade with adopted children for Switzerland came about in Sri Lanka during the civil war of the 1980s - the babies of that time are still looking for their birth parents today. In this report, the Sri Lankan babies of that time today as adults demand an apology from the Swiss government - and access to their dossiers, some of which are still inaccessible to them today. The film “International Adoptions - A Swiss Scandal” shows that adoptions were also carried out in a questionable manner with many other countries, for example in Lebanon. An even more perfidious approach came into play there during the civil war: doctors took away their babies from women immediately after birth and had them registered as children of the adoptive parents - making it practically impossible to find the birth parents today. A young woman who came to Switzerland in this way nevertheless goes on a search - and finds out incredible things. Doctors took away their babies from women immediately after birth and had them registered as children of the adoptive parents - so it is now practically impossible to find the birth parents. A young woman who came to Switzerland in this way nevertheless goes on a search - and finds out incredible things. Doctors took away their babies from women immediately after birth and had them registered as children of the adoptive parents - so it is now practically impossible to find the birth parents. A young woman who came to Switzerland in this way nevertheless goes on a search - and finds out incredible things.

They are called 'donor children', the approximately 40,000 Dutch children who were born until it was banned in 2004 thanks to anonymous sperm donation. The great secret that is still jealously covered up in many families has almost been overtaken by time. The DNA tests that are accessible to everyone are the big game changer .

Her mother asked her whether she could come to Amsterdam at the end of July 2020. Something had to be discussed. Something that was not suitable for over the telephone. And they had to be four of them: Marilien, her brother, her mother and her father.

That was something that had not happened for thirty years, with 'the whole family' - as it is called - in one room. Whatever had to be told could never be as bad as that, I thought. The four of us in one room, we hadn't done that for a long time. ' Marilien (52) has always been funny, her brother Steven (50) too.

She had a valid excuse: corona, especially if, like Marilien, you work and live with the family in Ireland. A trip to Amsterdam had meant quarantine on her return for two weeks. Could it really not be over the phone? No, it really couldn't be over the phone, said her 83-year-old and very spry mother, but she didn't have to worry either. It was not a disease, no one was going to die for the time being. It had to do with family history. What could this be, Marilien and Steven wondered.

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All 5 petitions were filed last year by BJP leader & lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. In all of them, SC has issued notice, asking relevant govt authorities to respond.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court currently has five petitions pending before it that demand uniformity in civil laws in the country on five aspects — age of marriage, divorce, succession, maintenance and adoption.

All the petitions were filed last year by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. And in all of them, the apex court has issued notice, asking the relevant government authorities to respond.

The petition seeking uniform age of marriage demands that the marriageable age for both men and women should be increased to 21 years.

The remaining four PILs have the same demand — either the Supreme Court should direct the government to “remove anomalies” in different laws, or it should frame guidelines itself to declare such “discriminatory grounds” of succession, adoption, maintenance and divorce as unconstitutional.

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A woman who was adopted in Liverpool in 1953 has discovered that her birth mother is still alive 67 years after she gave her up for adoption.

The 67-year-old daughter of an Irish woman who traveled from Ireland to England to give her up for adoption in 1953 has made the shocking discovery that her mother is still alive.

Margaret, who lives in Warwickshire, was adopted in Liverpool when she was just six months old. Her mother Bridget had given birth to her when she was unmarried and traveled to England to give her up for adoption, leaving Margaret wondering about what happened to her every year on her birthday.

Margaret appeared on Tuesday night's episode of BBC2's DNA Family Secrets in the hope of tracking down her biological mother and was stunned when she discovered that Bridget was still alive and living in an Irish care home.

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Standing up for your ideals and doing the right thing against all negative forces, that's how D66 party leader Sigrid Kaag is inspired by the mother superior of a children's home in Bethlehem. That is also the reason that she is adding sister Sophie to the gallery of honor of the Museum for Democracy of De Nieuws BV .

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Annick Boosten

I was adopted from India at the age of four. My parents already had a son David, who is four years older than me. There was another son but unfortunately he had a metabolic disease that killed him when he was eight months old. Due to the disease being hereditary (David appeared to have it too, only to a lesser extent) my parents decided to adopt a child. My parents are hardworking people who are always busy, the type who always say, “Don’t whine, just get on with it.” That’s how they raised me.

My mother worked furiously to teach me the Dutch language so that I could go to school as soon as possible because I came to them in December then by January, I had to go to school. When I used to object and say, “I’m sure they do that very differently in India,’ my mother replied, “You’re not in India, you’re in Belgium and that’s how we do it here.” I am very happy with my parents but sometimes I would have liked them to have known me a bit better, to have been a little more empathetic. As a child, I was overloaded with expensive clothes and all kinds of electronic toys as compensation because my parents worked so hard. During the holidays, I was sent to all kinds of camps so that my parents wouldn’t have to take off from work. I would have much preferred if we had been closely involved as a family and my parents made time for us to do fun things together. I’d have preferred a day at the beach than an X-box or Playstation.

Now that I have a son of my own, I give him a kiss every day and tell him how very happy I am with him. I do this even in those moments when I might be a bit angry because he doesn’t want to sleep. I missed that sort of interaction with my parents.