The Union Cabinet today approved landmark amendments to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, to allow district magistrates and additional district magistrates to pass adoption orders ending the existing challenge of legal hurdles to adoptions.

Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani flagged the amendments which seek to make childcare institutions and child welfare committee members and chiefs accountable, besides ensuring that district magistrates have the power to monitor child shelter homes to ensure child safety.

At present, childcare institutions need to state their intent to get permission from state governments to set up homes. But after new amendments, the permission would be subject to reports submitted by district magistrates who will do antecedent checks. Also, eligibility will be fixed for CWC members.

The most important amendment relates to the DM and ADM being allowed to issue adoption orders to fast track the process.

Former CEO of the Central Adoption Resource Agency Lt Col Deepak Kumar, who was involved in drafting the amendments, said: “At present, the family court, district court or a city civil court is competent to pass the adoption order under Section 61 of the Act. However, large scale pendency in the court is observed despite the Act mandating decision within two months. This causes duress to adoptive parents and the child.”

The woman's husband and in-laws allegedly harassed her and asked her to give her son to her husband's sister for adoption, an official said.

Thane: Police have registered an FIR against a man and five other members of his family for allegedly harassing his wife after she refused to agree for adoption of her five-year-old son by a relative in Maharashtra, an official said on Wednesday.

The woman, 26, got married in 2015 and gave birth to a boy the next year.

However, her husband and in-laws, residents of Bhiwandi town in Thane, allegedly harassed her and asked her to give her son to her husband's sister for adoption, the official from Nizampura police station said.

When the woman refused to part with her son, her husband threatened to divorce her, the official said quoting the complaint filed by the woman on Monday.

NEW DELHI: The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 to give district

magistrates the power to issue adoption orders and monitor functioning of various agencies responsible for implementation of

the Act.

The divisional commissioner will have the power to decide appeals with regard to adoption cases. The government says it will

enable “speedy disposal of adoption cases and enhance accountability”. Currently adoption orders are issued by the district

Joustra report Let adoptees be satisfied with their rescue from poverty, it sounds. It's not that simple, warns Anouk Eigenraam.

The report that Minister Dekker for Legal Protection is adopting all conclusions and advice from the Joustra Committee and that intercountry adoption is temporarily suspended with immediate effect, has caused a small earthquake in the adoption country, among adoptees as well as at mediation agencies, adoptive parents and researchers.

Anouk Eigenraam is an FD correspondent in China and wrote the book Welcome to Adoptionland (2017).

Many adoptees' interest groups were skeptical about yet another committee investigating intercountry adoption. Time and again, such a committee concluded that there was abuse, some already in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s identified signs of child trafficking, kidnapping, forgery, corruption. The Pavlovian reaction from politicians, advisers, permit holders and researchers was that international adoption was always in the best interest of the child and that many adoptions went well. It is therefore not surprising that Tom Schulpen, emeritus professor of paediatrics and former medical advisor to adoption organizations, also responds in his opinion piece in NRC (11/2).

No structural research

The temporary ban on adoption abroad by Minister Sander Dekker of Legal Protection fell to the roof of the adoptive mother of Robin (4) and Tom (0) from the United States.

With other adoptive parents and a number of Dutch people who were adopted in the past, she started a petition to revoke that ban. It has already been drawn more than 10,000 times - and the counter is running.

Too great risks

"Those who have permission in principle can complete the adoption procedure, but how that will work out in practice is unclear," says Gregory. She fears that employment agencies will drop out because the financial risk will become too great. “Then knowledge and skills are lost. We trust Dekker has a solution for that. ”

Gregory and her supporters started their action out of enthusiasm. They want to share their positive adoption stories for fear that negative sentiment will dominate. A committee led by former top civil servant Tjibbe Joustra concluded that there had been child trafficking, corruption and fraud.

On Tuesday, the council chamber in Dinant made a decision in the case of the large-scale adoption fraud involving various Congolese “orphans”. Of the eight suspects, only pivotal figure Julienne Mpemba (41) will answer before the criminal court later this year. All officials of the French Community concerned were thrown away. The parents involved are extremely disappointed with that decision.

In recent years it came to light that several Congolese children were offered for adoption to our country, while their biological parents in Congo had not left them at all. They were looted and put up for adoption for big money. According to the federal prosecutor's office, several members of the French Community were aware of the fraud. Passports, police reports, photos and ages were tampered with.

READ ALSO. Pivotal figure in Congolese adoption fraud Julienne Mpemba (42) breaks silence and lashes out at French Community officials (+)

Today the Dinant council chamber decided that the French officials should not answer to the criminal court. They could not be blamed under criminal law, it sounded. The parents of the concerned families who adopt a child are very disappointed. This confirms lawyer George-Henri Beauthier, who has been assisting the families for years. He will soon check with the attorney of the federal public prosecutor whether they can appeal against the decision.

Pivotal figure

For more than a decade, Dutch gay couples have been able to adopt children from abroad. Before that, it was only possible through a so-called one-parent procedure. Nevertheless, adoption by gay couples is complex. How did that happen?

Limited possibilities

Foreign adoption by gay couples is legal in only three countries: South Africa, Portugal and the United States. Many countries only allow adoption to heterosexual couples from a religious or cultural perspective. In the United States, biological parents have the option of choosing the adoptive parents themselves; the so-called open adoption : "The mother of our son has made an adoption plan herself with the social workers in America. She has determined who the parents of her child can be and fortunately we maintain a lot of contact with each other. We saw each other last year Hopefully our son will look back on encounters like these later with a good feeling. "

Arnoud and his friend adopted their son from the United States five years ago. The adoption process took more than five years. He and his partner had to arrange a lot to meet all the conditions. "It was a long process, but with the help of our permit holder A New Way, it worked."

Arnoud thinks it is unjustified that so few countries today put children up for adoption to homosexual couples. Although he is happy that the legislation in the Netherlands does offer gay couples the opportunity to adopt, he does not agree with the legislation of many other countries. Arnoud: "The attitude of many countries that exclude homosexuals is indeed discriminatory."

ECLI: NL: RBNHO: 2014: 8263

Authority

District Court of North Holland

Date of judgment

23-07-2014

It's called the 'second-hand children's market': In the United States, parents are allowed to give away their adopted children if problems arise. There are even special “fashion shows” organized. In ZEMBLA INTERNATIONAL you can see how children present themselves on the catwalk. They are adopted children looking for new parents. The procedures surrounding the American re-adoptions are neatly arranged on paper. It is intended as a solution. And sometimes it can mean a new start for a child when untenable tensions arise in an adoptive family. But when French journalists investigate, they also encounter the excesses of this system.

In ZEMBLA INTERNATIONAL an investigation into the relocation of American adopted children.

Also watch the extra report for this broadcast: 'The ranch for kids '

Every year an American charity sets up the red carpet in the Lutheran church in the American town of Topton. During the children's fashion show, the children do everything they can to be allowed to go home with one of the potential new adoptive parents in the audience. Cindy, visitor to the children's fashion show:

"It almost looks like a trade fair, where children are the product."

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