Conservative leadership contender Michael Gove has indicated that his drive to be prime minister is fuelled by a desire to show his parents they were right to take the “risk” of adopting him.

In a highly personal interview, the Environment Secretary said he did not try to find his birth mother because it might seem like his adoptive parents were not complete parents to him.

He told BBC Radio 4 podcast, Political Thinking with Nick Robinson: “I am amazed, in a way, that given everything, that I now find myself in the position that I’m in.

“I was adopted, spent the first four months of my life in care.

“And, I think that my parents in choosing to adopt me, were taking a risk. They didn’t know what they were getting into in a way.

In 2018-19, a total of 4,027 children were adopted in which about 3,374 children were adopted within the country while 653 inter-country adoptions were made, the CARA data showed.

Over 4,000 children, including 2,398 girls, were adopted in 2018-19, the highest in five years, data released by Child Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has said.

In 2018-19, a total of 4,027 children were adopted in which about 3,374 children were adopted within the country while 653 inter-country adoptions were made, the CARA data showed.

In 2017-18, as many as 3,927 children were adopted while in 2016-17, a total of 3,788 children were adopted. In 2015-16, a total of 3,677 children were adopted.

An official with the Women and Child Development Ministry said the perception of the people towards girl child is changing and that is evident from the fact that every year more girls are adopted than boys.

ROME - With so many children in the world needing a good home and so many couples unable to have children, there must be a way to make adoption easier and less costly, Pope Francis said.

Meeting May 24 with representatives of the Institute of the Innocents from Florence, Italy, Francis said he was struck by the idea that, in the old days, when a baby was left at the institute, he or she would be given half of a medal, while the mother would be given the other half.

“Today in the world there are many children who have half a medal,” the pope said. “They are alone, the victims of war, victims of migration, unaccompanied minors, victims of famine.”

“Who has the other half?” the pope asked. “Mother church. We have the other half. We must reflect and help our people understand that we are responsible for that other half and help create another ‘house of the innocents,’ one that is more global, with an attitude of adoption.”

“So many times there are people who want to adopt children, but there is such massive bureaucracy,” he said. Sometimes there also is corruption and a desire for money.

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This weekend it will be celebrated! Pumpkin, steel, seminar and family activities are promised. One of the largest and most active adoption organizations in the Nordic region, Adoption Center, will be 50 years old and the event will take place in Stockholm, at the noble Royal hotel Globen! What is hidden behind the glossy facade where childless couples and prospective orphans are linked together.

You have not missed the adoption union in Chile during the dictatorship that has now come up on the table, where the Adoption Center is being investigated for human trafficking in Chile? Maria Diemar from the relatively new organization chileadoption.se, who herself found her mother, says that the Chilean judge who investigates illegal adoptions has found 615 cases where the Adoption Center has been a player. In addition to the Adoption Center, a Chilean social worker is under investigation.

Figures from UNICEF Unicef ??from 2015 clarify that 141 million children living in orphanages around the world have at least one surviving relative who could take care of them. It is interesting and important. Why is such an unpleasant silence culture allowed around the Adoption Center when we have actual figures in front of us.

Adoption criticism should not be regarded as a new phenomenon. Nor is it the first time that heroic adoption is usually described as being swayed. Therefore, here now comes a timeline with examples of adoption scandals where the Adoption Center has been involved:

Some 18 children trooped on to stage in shopping centre in Matto Grosso, Brazil

Orphans were expected to produce themselves, with hair, clothes and makeup

The catwalk came under fire from public figures who branded it 'devastating'

An 'adoption catwalk show' which saw orphans as young as four parade in front of prospective foster parents has been likened to a slave market amid an outpouring of public fury.

Some 18 Brazilian children trooped on to a stage inside a shopping centre in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state, on Tuesday night hoping to catch the eye of potential adopters.

4th Meeting of the Special Commission on the Hague Convention

NORDIC ADOPTION COUNCIL July 2015 Birgitta Löwstedt

4TH SPECIAL COMMISSION 8-12 June 2015

"20 years of the 1993 Hague Convention”

The objective of the 4th Special Commission (SC) was to review the practical operation of the 1993 Hague Convention; in the light of the 20 years that have passed since its birth. The discussions included presentations by some experts and some 'round table' sessions to introduce certain topics. After each presentation and round table sessions, there was time for discussions, questions and comments. Special for this year: A preparatory meeting was held on Saturday 6th June, for new States parties to the convention and for those States seriously considering ratification of, or accession to, the Convention. 19 States participated, with totally 33 experts. It was very successful and appreciated by participants.

Caroline Vrijens new children's rights commissioner

Caroline Vrijens will be the new children's rights commissioner from 1 August. She is a lawyer by training and now works at the Youth Welfare Agency of the Flemish government.

For the appointment of the Children's Rights Commissioner, the Flemish Parliament conducted a selection procedure together with Berenschot. Caroline Vrijens was the best. The plenary approved its appointment on 22 May.

Caroline Vrijens: "It's a big responsibility, but I take it enthusiastically. Injustice has always touched me a lot. And I absolutely believe in the power of connection, connection between different perspectives and across policy areas. Standing up for children's rights from a connecting role: it comes together in the position of children's rights commissioner. "

Caroline Vrijens: "I am looking forward to stand up as a children's rights commissioner for the interests and rights of all children and young people in Flanders. Every child has the right to good care, education, room to develop and protection against all forms of violence. Together with the Children's Rights Commission team, I want to bring the perspective of children and young people even more into the political and social debate. We keep a finger on the pulse of what lives with them and what they collide with. We give a voice to those who are not heard enough, with special attention to children in vulnerable situations. "

Adoptive father: There is no basis for proclaiming thousands of adopted children as victims of abuse

Last week's chronicle on international adoption forgets the nuances and demonizes adoptive parents. That some adoptions end in tragedies cannot be used as a general argument against adoption, writes adoptive father Mogens Jeppesen in this debate

Then we go to it again - explain to our adopted children that they can forget about their safe childhood, good education, exciting jobs and lovely families. For in reality they are - whether they recognize it or not - victims of a brutal assault.

They have been forcibly removed from their country of birth, where they should have been and grown up so that they could take responsibility for the future of their only proper country. And then we must also remember to apologize to them.

Such is the message in the chronicle "It is unethical to defer poor parents their children" from May 16.

Link: https://www.boekwinkeltjes.nl/b/112224788/Buitenlandse-pleegkinderen-Richtlijnen-voor-de/

Writer: ed.

Title: Foreign foster children. Guidelines for inclusion and admission.

Publisher: Ministry of Justice, March 1976

Particulars: 10 pp. Brochure.

International adoption sometimes the least harmful solution

HIGH TEACHER YOUTH RIGHT IN ORATION:

AMSTERDAM - Yesterday afternoon mrs. Prof. M. de Langen at the University of Amsterdam her inaugural lecture as extraordinary professor in juvenile law on "Children on the kick chair", where she intensively focused on the theory and practice of international adoption, through a form of Called "under-development assistance".

Although a "Declaration of the Rights of the Child" was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1959, which sets out the most basic needs and rights of children, we must unfortunately note that now more than half of the children does not receive sufficient food, clothing and medical care on our earth, says Prof. De Langen.

Despite the fact that a great deal of help is provided by many national and international organizations for the benefit of the millions of children in need, it appears all too often that forms of development aid are failing due to an over-attentive attitude of the aid agencies and lack of respect for identity and the autonomy of those to whom assistance is thought to be offered.