Kazakhstan: Suspension of Intercountry Adoptions Reconfirmed

This notice updates previously-issued notices dated July 12, 2019 and June 16, 2017.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MOES), as intercountry adoption central authority, reconfirmed with the Department of State on October 22 that the existing suspension on intercountry adoptions between Kazakhstan and the United States remains in place, pending the submission of all outstanding post-adoption reports (PARs). MOES continues to issue certificates of authorization to Adoption Service Providers (ASPs), although the suspension applies to all U.S. ASPs.

Please submit outstanding PARs, which should be both apostilled and notarized, at your earliest convenience. The required content for PARs is discussed in the Department’s June 16, 2017 notice.

Originals can be sent to the address below:

When children are unable to live safely at home with their parents, they may enter out-of-home care. Most of these children are in foster or kinship care and many are able safely to go home after a period of time.

But for more than 23,000 children in out-of-home care in Australia, the courts have determined they cannot ever safely return home.

Adoption is one way these children can be given permanency and avoid moving from placement to placement in foster care.

Read more: Explainer: how hard is it to adopt in Australia?

But the adoption of children from out-of-home care is extremely contentious. This is partly because adoption laws in all Australian states and territories require children to be legally severed from their birth family when they’re adopted. This is called “plenary adoption”.

A warm family helps orphanage children cope with stress

Psychology With orphanage children growing up in a warm family, the disturbed stress reaction normalizes during puberty.

An unsettled stress response due to intense experiences in early life can recover during puberty. This is what American psychobiologists write this week in the scientific journal PNAS. The research suggests that in addition to early childhood there is also a sensitive period during puberty, during which the biological stress system can still normalize by growing up in a warm nest.

In people who grew up in an orphanage as a small child, the body reacts differently to exciting events at a later age than in people who spent their early years in a normal family. They produce less of the stress hormone cortisol at that time than usual, because their biological stress system, the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis), functions less well. This is evident from, among other things, previous studies into seriously neglected children who grew up in orphanages in Bucharest. Research on rats and macaques that were neglected by their mother also shows that there is a sensitive period in early childhood, when the stress system is formed.

Both too much and too little of the stress hormone cortisol has a bad effect on the immune system, the stress response and mental development.

Bosnians have taken to the streets to protest against the government after photos were published of special needs children chained to beds and radiators in an official facility.

Over 1,000 people called for action outside a government building in the capital Sarajevo after images from inside the Pazaric care home were released by opposition politician Sabina Cudic.

Parents of disabled children joined the protest, describing the care system as dysfunctional, one that had seen their offspring excluded from society.

Ms Cudic demanded a parliamentary debate on the matter but the government has rejected the request.

The current boss of the home has defended staff and says the claims of abuse are untrue.

Video INTERVIEW - Ambassador Susan Jacobs: It would be reasonable

opening in Romania of international adoption for children with

special needs - PHOTO, VIDEO

It would be reasonable for Romania to reopen international adoption for children who do not find a home, those with special needs, older people

or with several siblings, says US Ambassador Susan Jacobs, a special adviser on child issues, in an interview with MEDIAFAX.

End of adoption from abroad: Danish adoption agency in major financial problems

The country's only international adoption agency has so far stopped bringing in new adopters.

The adoption agency DIA no longer takes in adopters from year-end. (© (c) DR)

BY EMIL SØNDERGÅRD INGVORSEN

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Olivier Rousteing looked for his biological mother: "To know where we are going, we need to know our roots"

"I do not know if we are really ready one day, to face this reality there," says Olivier Rousteing, stylist, artistic director of the haute couture house Balmain since 2011, guest of France Inter, Thursday. Born under X, he is at the heart of a documentary that tells the story of his biological mother.

Olivier Rousteing, fashion icon, artistic director of the brand Balmain, evokes his "hidden face" in a documentary film, Wonderboy. Born under X and now 33 years old, we see in this film by Anissa Bonnefont, her career, for a year and a half, in search of her biological mother. "I did not expect someone to offer me a biopic about my life at 30 years old. Normally, it's when we die or at the end of our career and I was not sure I could handle all the emotions of this quest, "he says.

"She convinced me, I felt a lot of goodwill from him," says Olivier Rousteing about Anissa Bonnefont. "The camera forced me not to give in, not to let go, not to leave. It was like a pact made with myself, to go to the end. For all the children born under X. Nothing was censored, the pact it was the authenticity, "he continues.

If he had already made inquiries at the age of 16, Olivier Rousteing explains that he was not ready at the time. "I do not know if we are really ready for a day, to face this reality, but I felt much more ready today," he continues. "To know where we are going, we need to know our roots (...) like a flower that needs to have roots and water to open. I have always been looking for recognition because I did not really know where I came from, "adds Olivier Rousteing.

Adoption: yes or no?

Is it good or bad to adopt a child? And should intercountry adoption continue to exist or not? Extraordinary professor Femmie Juffer and emeritus special professor René Hoksbergen, both specialized in adoption, discuss these issues. But they don't agree.

In the series 'I can't come from Sri Lanka', we follow Dinja Pannebakker, a young woman of 32 who has been adopted from Sri Lanka. She herself feels completely Dutch and has no need for connection to her birthplace.

Pannebakker is one of more than 3,400 Sri Lankan children who have been adopted by Dutch parents since the 1970s. Adoption from Sri Lanka was definitively stopped in 2018. Adoption from a dozen other countries, or 'intercountry adoption', still exists, although the number of adopted people is decreasing every year. In 2018 a total of 156 children were brought to the Netherlands from abroad. Most of them are from China (28), Hungary (24) or the United States (23). In the Netherlands, 21 children were adopted last year and placed with other Dutch families.

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HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - They wondered about each other over the decades, the Vietnamese mother constantly and more acutely than the 3-year-old daughter she gave up in April 1975, just before Saigon fell to Communist North Vietnam.

As U.S. troops exited Vietnam after twenty years of conflict, thousands of South Vietnamese who had fought alongside them or otherwise opposed the North were terrified of what lay ahead. As some fled, more than 3,000 children were flown to new families overseas in what became known as ‘Operation Babylift’.

Among those infants was Leigh Mai Boughton Small - the daughter of a Vietnamese maid and a G.I. - who was airlifted out of the humid chaos of Vietnam for a new life and adopted middle-class family in New England.

Leigh Mai and her birth mother may have spent the rest of their lives wondering about each other - except for the mother’s persistence, the daughter’s decision to try a DNA website, and help from a Vietnamese Good Samaritan.

After years of trying to find each other, Leigh Mai, now 47, met her birth mother Nguyen thi Dep on Nov. 17 in Ho Chi Minh City, a reunion exclusively filmed by Reuters TV.

Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Two French citizens were shot dead in Port-au-Prince at the weekend shortly after flying into the Haitian capital to adopt a child, diplomatic and other sources told AFP Monday.

An official at the French embassy confirmed that a French couple had been killed, without giving further details of the exact circumstances of their deaths.

According to two other sources, however, the couple were from the Ardeche region of southeastern France and had arrived in the Caribbean country to adopt a child.

One of the sources said they were killed in an armed robbery that turned deadly.

A spokeswoman for the Ardeche department confirmed to AFP that the couple, from the town of Saint-Martin-d'Ardeche, had been given a green light last year to adopt their first child.