Mumbai: In a unique case of adoption, the Bombay High Court last week hailed a Ghatkopar-based couple for adopting a seven-month-old girl child. The HC said the couple must be appreciated for adopting a girl child despite already having a daughter.

A bench of Justice Girish Kulkarni appreciated this 'approach' of the couple, saying it should set as an example for the 'patriarch' society.

The judge personally met the adoptive parents in his chambers and interacted with them especially because of the 'motivation' letter, they annexed to their plea, describing why they were motivated to adopt a child.

“I had an interaction with the adoptive parents and more particularly on reading their motivation letter. It appears that the adoptive parents were quite determined right from the beginning to have another child in adoption,” Justice Kulkarni said.

“They had accordingly visited several adoption homes and had studied on their future plans to take another child in adoption. They were also motivated by a book titled as Bal Anand (Umang), which was received by them from Bal Anand Ashram,” Justice Kulkarni noted.

The chair of the Parliamentary Committee, Lissa Mathiassen (S), will have tightened the rules for the adoption of foreign children.

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Denmark's Mother Teresa has been helping children in India for 40 years

80-year-old Jessie Rosenmeier from Aalborg has made a difference for children in India through the humanitarian organization Terre des Hommes Denmark for 40 years. It will be marked with an anniversary gala in Copenhagen on June 3

10-year-old Indian girl Sarita comes to the meeting with her mother Greeta Deve. Both have just come out of the bath and the hair is set.

They are expectant and excited, but also politely awaiting.

It will be a touching experience for both them and 80-year-old Jessie Rosenmeier, who have traveled from Aalborg to India to visit some of the children she has helped to improve their lives through the humanitarian aid organization Terre des Hommes Denmark with food and education.

An adoptive mother's journey to Bombay

It is the impression of dignity, beauty and joy an adoptive mother will pass on to her two girls after picking up the youngest at the orphanage Asha Sadan.

By Patrizia Paggio

We had been waiting for the final conclusion of our case for almost two months and the tension had become unbearable. One evening, Jessie Rosenmeier from Terre des Hommes finally called and told me that Radha's Indian passport was now ready and that I could leave for Bombay to pick up our second adoptive daughter at the Asha Sadan orphanage.

Two days later, I kissed Carl, my husband, and Khushbu, our oldest daughter, goodbye to drive out to Kastrup, where I was to meet Jessie, whom I was going to fly to Bombay with. During the flight, I sat trying to imagine what my first encounter with Radha would be like. How would she accept me? Would I be able to make myself understandable? Our oldest daughter Khushbu had my husband and I received in Kastrup. Would I be able to cope with meeting a new child on my own? At the same time, I also felt a great deal of tenderness about seeing my two children’s India for the first time.

Danish-born actress and filmmaker Dina Rosenmeier attempts to square her mother Jessie’s seemingly obsessive need to aid the world’s underprivileged children — while regularly leaving her own six kids back home — in the stirring, if inconclusive documentary “A Journey in My Mother’s Footsteps.”

Jessie Rosenmeier, 75 when this film was made, is dubbed here “The Mother Teresa of Modern Times” for her four-decade devotion to the welfare and international adoption of children in such countries as Kenya, Haiti, Korea and, especially, India. Dina travels across the last, revisiting the orphanages and foundations in Kolkata, Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai where Jessie made her mark. En route, the writer-director explores her prospects for motherhood and even a potential adoption, which furthers her understanding of Jessie’s humanitarian impulses.

Jessie, who joins Dina on-camera in Mumbai, explains how her passion for helping the destitute began after her third child died at birth, which connects at least a few dots. But the deeper implications — Jessie’s desire for escape, her volunteerism’s true emotional and financial toll on her family — are largely skirted here, even throughout Dina’s various chats with her supportive father.

That none of Dina’s siblings is interviewed here about their extraordinary mother may speak volumes.

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Since the 1970's, Jessie Rosenmeier has worked as an activist to improve the lives of orphans and street children in India, primarily in the cities of Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai.Through her volunteer work approximately 400 children from India alone, have gone in adoption to Denmark, schools, orphanages and sponsorship programs have evolved.

Time and again leaving behind her own 6 children in Denmark, as an adult the youngest Dina Rosenmeier, sets out on a journey through India hoping to understand her mother's choices.

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With the introduction of the law on adoption in 1956, the legislature departed from two ideas, which in hindsight both not proved to be correct.

In particular, the introduction of adoption as being a child protection measure was strongly criticized in the literature. As noted rightly by Delfos and Doek, the characteristic of child protection is that it is never permanent, whereas adoption in principle is permanent. A measure of child protection is also characterized by the fact that in the interest of the child there is an intervention into the exercised authority over him. Parental authority is limited by that measure.

In contrast, adoption confirms legally the existing factual relationship between foster parents and the foster child and builds the authority of the foster parents who have custody into parental authority.

Also Red- Boer found that the "to consider adoption for political reasons as a measure child protection, leads to a lame comparison. "In that context, she pointed out that child protection measures such as exemption from the parental rights or withdrawal of the parental rights do not lead to the loss of familial ties, while adoption does indeed break the existing family ties indeed to then put new family relationships in their place.

From the development that the legal form of adoption after 1956 has gone through, and which this chapter will look at closer, will also show that this idea has been abandoned.

The Orban government wants to make the foundation "The Orphanage Mogul of Romania's Orphans" of public utility. The foundation, accused in a documentary of experiments on children in Romania

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The Orban government wants to make the foundation "The Orphanage Mogul of Romania's Orphans" of public utility. The foundation, accused in a documentary of experiments on children in Romania

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Il y a 30 ans, à la chute du régime communiste, le monde découvrait en Roumanie d’immenses orphelinats, certains de véritables mouroirs, où survivaient des centaines de milliers d’enfants, parfois attachés à leur lit, livrés à eux mêmes. Depuis la disparition de Ceausescu, d'importants progrès ont été réalisés en termes de protection des enfants et le pays se prépare à fermer les 147 derniers centres hérités de l’époque communiste. Mais beaucoup reste à faire pour en finir avec l'héritage du dictateur : les abandons persistent et 54 000 enfants sont toujours sous tutelle de l’État, alertent l'association CARE et son partenaire SERA Romania.

La Roumanie est le seul pays où l’abandon d’enfants a été encouragé par l’État, qui avait développé un réseau de plus de 600 orphelinats. Conséquence de la politique ultra nataliste du dictateur Ceausescu - interdiction de la contraception et de l’IVG, obligation de faire 5 enfants par femme - abandonner son enfant était devenu en 1989 un acte banal. Si ce système a été abrogé en 1997, l’impact est encore bien présent 30 ans après. En 2018, 54 000 enfants étaient toujours sous la protection de l’État, dont 60 % en situation de handicap. Encore beaucoup grandissent dans des centres de placement inadaptés offrant peu de perspectives.

« Malgré un net recul depuis les années 90 et le travail acharné de nos équipes sur le terrain qui ont permis de fermer 87 orphelinats de l’époque de Ceauscescu et d’améliorer le destin de plus de 88 000 enfants en Roumanie, le nombre d’enfants placés est encore bien trop important ! », explique Bogdan Simion, directeur de l’association SERA Romania, soutenu par CARE.

Verslag bijeenkomst bij Wereldkinderen dd 17-12-2008

Aanwezig waren Pauline Hillen, die net een week in Esperance is geweest, Ingrid en Sigrid en Dik Seltonrijch, die als voorzitter fungeerde (prima job, Dik!).

Eerst vertelt Pauline uitgebreid over haar bezoek.

Het doel van haar bezoek was om te kijken waar er nu stagnatie in de procedure is, hoe het komt en of er wat aan te doen is. Dit op het niveau van het beleid in het kindertehuis, de verhuizing, de medewerkers en de instanties.

TEHUIS