Genetics, not upbringing, main influencer in a child’s IQ, study says

Published October 30, 2014FoxNews.com

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Lee Myung Hee

* geboren in mei 1975

* hij is een adoptiekind uit Zuid-Korea dat in januari 1976 samen met 21 andere Koreaanse kinderen op een KLM vlucht zat van Yokohama in Japan, via Anchrage in Alaska, naar Schiphol Airport

* de kinderen kwamen via een Haagse adoptie-organisatie naar Europa

* Lee zou gaan wonen op het volgende adres in België: 10 Ectois Jean Pierre, Rue de la Station 11, 5600 Tamines

drie geadopteerde Haïtiaanse meisjes

* Immacula Bongard (Moumoune), geboren in Haïti in 1977 en in 1985 geadopteerd

* Immacula haar Haïtiaanse broer heet Ason

* Marie Narcisse Lauture (Miyou), geboren in Haïti in 1980 en in 1984 geadopteerd

* Jesumene Gere, geboren in 1982 in Haïti en in 1987 geadopteerd

“One Child Nation,” Reviewed: A Powerful Investigation of a Chinese Policy’s Personal Toll

By Richard BrodyAugust 9, 2019

One of the crucial revelations of “One Child Nation” is the power of propaganda, by sheer force of its ubiquity—and its uncontested hegemony.Photograph Courtesy Amazon Studios

Any investigative journalist could have pursued the story told in “One Child Nation,” a new documentary directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, about China’s former policy (in force from 1979 to 2015) of limiting families to a single child each. Indeed, they include one such daring and persistent journalist in the film. But for Wang, who was born in China in 1985 (and immigrated to the United States in 2011, at the age of twenty-six), the one-child policy is also the story of her own childhood, and in her bold, probingly investigative, painfully intimate film, she approaches her subject with regard to its most personal implications. In so doing, she locates the political network in which lives like hers were caught, and traces the one-child policy’s consequences, as well as the attitudes underlying it, into the present day and into her own life, the lives of others, and the world at large.

Wang is present onscreen as she pursues and conducts interviews, including with members of her family; she frames and analyzes the movie from within by way of her voice-over narration, and her investigation is an integral on-camera element of the action. To watch that investigation, both public and private, is to confront an overwhelming, colossal network of atrocities and their official justifications—a vast system of control and coercion, deceit and corruption, that’s fostered and managed from the highest levels of government and leaves its mark throughout Chinese society. She addresses the ingrained failures of much conventional, arm’s-length journalism and its unchallenged conventions—exemplified, near the start of the film, in a clip of a TV-news report featuring Tom Brokaw, who parrots the Chinese government’s rationale for the one-child policy (prosperity) and says that it is pursued through a combination of “fines, economic incentives, and propaganda.” Wang shows, in the course of the film, how that policy was actually pursued—not merely with fines but with cruelly punitive force and horrific violence.

Ireland left horrified by Ana Kriégel’s murder in a derelict farmhouse

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After two 14-year-olds were convicted of killing a vulnerable teenage girl who had been bullied online, the fallout from a harrowing case continues to haunt the country

Rory Carroll

@rorycarroll72

Published on Sep 23, 2014

Un subiect sensibil în România anului 2014 îl constituie procesului de adop?ie al copiilor. Cu to?ii ?tim ce proceduri complicate sunt în acest caz ?i cum, de cele mai multe ori, aceast? "birocra?ie informatic?" reduce ?ansa de adop?ie a unui copil. Îns?, viitorul pare s? sune bine, odat? cu lansarea proiectului "Sistem informatic integrat pentru Oficiul Român de Adop?ii - OR@".

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Timmermans sees improvements in Bulgarian children's home

News item | 10-09-2008 | 14:15

‘A lot still has to be done, but it’s looking good,’ said European affairs minister Frans Timmermans on 9 September, after his follow-up visit to a children's home in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.

‘The health of the children in Mogilino is being monitored every day by specialists from UNICEF. But more significantly, the Bulgarian authorities have decided to close the home down,’ said Mr Timmermans.

Earlier this year, the BBC broadcast a documentary, Bulgaria’s abandoned children, about the sorry state of the Mogilino children’s home in Sofia. The programme aroused considerable indignation in Bulgaria and other EU member states. In February, Mr Timmermans visited the home to see the situation with his own eyes. Yesterday, he returned to see whether it has improved since.

NEWSTrafficking: Delta Govt secretly places embargo on children adoption, CDHR reacts

Published on July 31, 2019 By Matthew Omonigho

The Delta State Government through the Ministry of Women Affairs has secretly placed embargo on children adoption in the state with a view to curbing child trafficking, DAILY POST can report.

When contacted for comments on the matter, the newly sworn-in Commissioner, Ministry of Women Affairs, Mrs. Flora Alatan was not on seat.

However, the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Women Affairs, Mrs. Gladys Peugeren in a chat with our correspondent in Asaba said she was not in the position to speak, noting that, “It is an internal issue.”

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