Adoption campaigners have hit out at the "hypocrisy and dishonesty" of the Government in refusing to launch an inquiry into forced and illegal adoption.

It comes as a number of prominent independent politicians introduced a motion in the Dáil calling for an immediate inquiry and for immediate redress to be offered to survivors of Mother and Baby Homes.

The current inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes is limited to adoption practices and procedures of agencies and individuals with a direct connection to a mother and baby home. For more than a decade now, campaigners have called for a full State inquiry into adoption practices across all agencies.

Paul Redmond of the Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors (CMABS) said the increasing support for a full inquiry into is encouraging:

"This Dáil motion has exposed the hypocrisy and dishonesty at the heart of a Government who have decided on a 'deny till they die' policy towards an elderly and dying survivor community.

Abandoned as a newborn, all Abigail Prangs ever wanted was to know who her biological mum was — what she found out instead was heartbreaking.

An Australian woman has uncovered a shocking family secret while searching for her biological mother in Zimbabwe.

36 years ago Abigail Prangs was taken from Harare Hospital, driven four kilometres and abandoned in bush near the Magambuzi River.

“I was dumped outside of the hospital, I was just literally wrapped in a towel, with my cord cut,” Ms Prangs told Sunday Night True Stories.

“Someone in that hospital has done something and, for some reason, has dumped me.”

A bombshell report by the Chilean judiciary has revealed that hundreds of children illegally adopted by foreigners during the Pinochet dictatorship were sent to the US. A judge overseeing the probe called it “kidnapping.”

Judge Mario Carroza’s report, released Sunday, followed a probe into 579 adoptions between 1950 and 2001, 488 of those during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Of those, 525 were adopted by foreign families, and 432 went to the US. Calling the practice “kidnapping” and a “crime against humanity,” Carroza pointed out that Chile had no legal mechanism for overseas adoption until 1988.

Files on the 579 children of “vulnerable” mothers were discovered at the home of 96-year-old social worker Telma Uribe, who played a key role in the “irregular” adoptions according to Carroza. Mothers in financial hardship were paid to transfer their newborns to the legal guardianship of agencies. They were then “handed over” to families abroad.

Chilean Judge Mario Carroza is pictured out his office during a break in interrogation of former military officers at a court in Santiago, July 23, 2015. © Reuters / © Ivan Alvarado

The American Adoption Agency is linked to 206 of the cases; the Evangelical Adoption and Family Service to 22; the New York Study Service to 11; International Adoptions, Inc. to four; Catholic Charities of Richmond to three; Today’s Family, Inc. to three; and Homestudies, Inc. to two.

What is Guidance and socio - legal advice to the family?

It is a service that seeks to orient, advise and carry out the pertinent procedures required by the Family that presents problems in aspects related to Family and Minors Law, to prevent through conciliation the initiation of judicial processes, in order to solve an existing conflict or prevent one eventual.

What is sought with Sociolegal Counseling and Counseling?

Advice and social and legal guidance.

Legal Consultation (Family and Minors Law).

Cheating Adoption Indonesia

Meeting April 22, 2018

Written by: D. Deijle

Posted on www.ojau.nl, 12 May 2018

On April 22, 2018, in collaboration with Stichting Mijn Roots and mw. Y. Veenendaal organized a meeting at the Indonesian Embassy, ??following the broadcast of Zembla, "Adoption cheating part 3", where we were all in. It was a meeting for adopted people from Indonesia and their adoptive parents because there was a need for it. Although this day was organized in the short term, there was a lot of interest.

"I am a giveaway." About the consequences of an adoption

Last summer, writer and poet Eke Mannink published her debut novel "This is how I get over you," about the consequences of an adoption. Her own, that is. The intention was to put an end to a long story, it was a new beginning.

First I came - from a children's home in Nijmegen. About a year later, my brother Robert - from the Roman Catholic transit house Moederheil in Breda - arrived. Not my biological brother. Together we grew up with the parents who adopted us, on the edge of a village in the Veluwe.

New story

I wrote a novel about my adoption. I had never realized how many consequences that would have, until now, now that I am on the train and on my way to my brother's biological mother. If I had not written my book, I would never make this trip. Then I would not have known that my brother had become a father and got to know his real mother. I would not even have known that he is no longer alive. I had thought: I will make a point with this book. But it turned out to be the start of a new story.

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Bangladesh and adoption, both complex and confusing .. part 1

Born in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a country known for its rivers, floods and poverty, which it is described by many as "a permanent disaster." Yet the country has much more to offer; a rich culture, beautiful nature that in addition to a lot of water also has many fertile fields. The name that the country has received from the Bengal itself suggests a very different picture: Sonar Bangla: Golden Bengal.

Independence Bangladesh

For centuries, Bangladesh has been dominated by foreign nations, first the colonial era by England, then by India and Pakistan. Three guesses where all the wealth stayed.

Mother and Adopted Daughter: It is unethical to deceive poor parents of their children

The current system of transnational adoption means that we deal with children and remove them from their original families and country of birth. It must be regarded as an assault, write the adoption researcher and her adopted daughter in this debate

We write this chronicle together: the adopted and the adoptive, mother and daughter.

We were adopted together in Burkina Faso in 1995 at the request of Babette's biological grandmother and national authorities. Merete became part of the Burkinian extended family. We have since lived in Burkina Faso for periods, and it was great to be stopped in the street by random passers-by who, addressed to Merete, said, "Thank you for taking her back - there is no one else doing that."

In the original legal significance of adoption, this is only accomplished when both parties have adopted each other - this is a mutual process. This is not the case in the dominant, transnational adoption system.

Trafficking of children: The story of Kristoffer Ohrn, a mapuche baby who was kidnapped in dictatorship

His family called him Eduardo, but a social worker took it and made it available to a court. After living in Sweden, he learned the truth when he had a DNA test. 41 years later he traveled to Chile and managed to reunite with his brothers.

Kidnapping with violence, an imprescriptible crime suffered by a 9-month-old baby in La Araucanía. This is Kristoffer Tobias Ohrn Johansson is a Mapuche who today is reunited with his origins, with his family and with a violent past that separated him from his parents in 1977.

It was only known that La Aurora de Lautaro, headed by Rafael Cerda and Tusnelda Barriga, entered the home. Like hundreds of children, his passport consigned the address of a Monsignor Monsignor Muller 38, a property belonging to social worker Telma Uribe, who is investigated by the courts.

Uribe was the right hand of the representative of the Swedish adoption center, Ana María Elmgren, a housewife who sent thousands of children abroad during the dictatorship and Ohrn was one of them.