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Pétition en faveur des familles victimes du moratoire roumain sur les adoptions

Plusieurs eurodéputés, emmenés par les Français Claire Gibault et Jean-Marie Cavada (démocrates libéraux), ont lancé une pétition dans laquelle ils demandent que les autorités roumaines reviennent sur les refus qu'elles ont opposés à quelque 1 000 familles.

Par Rafaële Rivais Publié le 04 juillet 2006 à 13h57 - Mis à jour le 04 juillet 2006 à 13h57

La question de l'adoption internationale en Roumanie donne lieu à une douloureuse bataille au Parlement européen. Plusieurs eurodéputés, emmenés par les Français Claire Gibault et Jean-Marie Cavada (démocrates libéraux), ont lancé une pétition dans laquelle ils demandent que les autorités roumaines reviennent sur les refus qu'elles ont opposés à quelque 1 000 familles qui auraient été, disent-ils, surprises par le moratoire sur les adoptions, entré en vigueur en octobre 2001. Ils espèrent recueillir avant le 6 juillet les 367 signatures nécessaires pour que cette pétition engage le Parlement.

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“Once it is admitted that the child is either a child in need of care and protection and that the adoption is liable to be regulated in terms of the Act, 2015, then the petitioners' right to adopt is regulated by the Regulations framed under the said Act and the rights of the prospective parents has to immediately give way to the best interest of the child.” The High Court of Kerala has dismissed challenge against eligibility criteria for prospective adoptive parents as contained in Regulation 5 of the Adoption Regulations, 2017, with regard to the maximum composite age of prospective adoptive parents for the purpose of adoption of child up to four years of age. The regulations stipulate that when the age of the child is four or less, then the maximum composite age of prospective adoptive parents (couple) is 90 years. Maximum age of single prospective adoptive parent in such a case is 45 years. Justice Anu Sivaraman was considering two writ petitions, one filed by a non-Hindu single prospective adoptive parent aged 50 and the other filed by a Hindu couple aged 58 and 63. The former had challenged the Adoption Regulations on the ground that it discriminates against his right to adopt in so far as Hindu parents are permitted to adopt a child in terms of the provisions of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956. The Hindu couple challenged the said prescription of upper age limit on the ground that it is unsupported by any study or any discernible reason whatsoever. They contended that being physically fit and economically competent, they are entitled to adopt a child of the age of their choice. It was also contended that the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 permits such adoption by Hindus and the guidelines in so far as it restricts the right of Hindus to adopt is violative of the provisions of the Act apart from being ultra vires the enabling Statute as well. The court said that the argument of religious discrimination taken in one of the writ petition is a misapprehension. “The Act, 1956 governs only voluntary adoptions by known parents to known and specified adoptive parents with full willingness on both sides. This apparently was the known form of adoption on which both these writ petitions are based. However, when it comes to the adoption of a child in need of care and protection or a juvenile in conflict with law or an abandoned child in terms of the Act, 2015, the provisions of the said Act and the guidelines made there-under prevail over any provision of any personal law on the subject. Therefore, a child in need of care and protection or an abandoned child in terms of the Act, 2015 can be offered or taken in adoption only in terms of the guidelines prescribed under the Act, 2015,” it said. As regards the other writ petition filed by Hindu couple, the court said: “In a matter of adoption, what is to be looked into is the welfare of the child and where it is stated that the maximum age is prescribed keeping in mind the probability of the prospective adoptive parents surviving the formative years of the child, this Court cannot, in exercise of its powers of judicial review, say that such a guideline is violative of the right of the prospective adoptive parents or that it is discriminatory. It is not for this Court to consider the reasons behind the fixing of a particular age or to substitute its own wisdom for that of the executive by fixing criteria for adoption at variance with those provided in the impugned guidelines.” The court said since Section 57 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, specifically states that eligibility of prospective adoptive parents shall have the criteria specified in the Adoption Regulations framed by the authority, the argument on statutory ultra vires must immediately fail. The court further observed: “The question whether the right to adopt is an integral part of the religion of the petitioners, according to me, is of no consequence whatsoever in a scenario where the child who is sought to be adopted is a surrendered or abandoned child who is free for adoption and is therefore governed by the provisions of the Act, 2015. Once it is admitted that the child is either a child in need of care and protection and that the adoption is liable to be regulated in terms of the Act, 2015, then the petitioners' right to adopt is regulated by the Regulations framed under the said Act and the rights of the prospective parents has to immediately give way to the best interest of the child.” The court also said that, in case they have a contention that the guidelines issued by the CARA are not supported by scientific studies, it is for them to approach the CARA seeking appropriate steps in the matter.

https://www.livelaw.in/kerala-hc-dismisses-challenge-against-adoption-regulations-2017-stipulating-upper-age-limit-for-prospective-adoptive-parents/

Veel geadopteerden blijken papieren te hebben waar geen letter van waar is. Als Amanda Janssen (33), geboren in Sri Lanka , in de spiegel kijkt, weet ze niet wie ze ziet.

Denise Hilhorst

11 december 2018

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Hebben Nederlandse ambtenaren meegewerkt aan illegale adopties vanuit het buitenland? Vorige week maakte minister Sander Dekker (Rechtsbescherming, VVD) bekend dat hij dit wil laten onderzoeken door een onafhankelijke commissie. Het nieuws geeft Amanda Janssen (33) een dubbel gevoel. Kort geleden kwam ze er achter dat er niets klopt van de informatie in haar adoptiepapieren. Die ontdekking noemt ze „een oerknal”. „Alles in mijn leven is hetzelfde en toch is het voor mij volledig veranderd.”

Jody Bernal: 'as an adoptive parent you can not fill a part'

In the new EO TV program Been There, Done That, well-known Dutch people who have been in a bad position in their lives are linked to young people who are now struggling with the same problems. Singer and DJ Jody Bernal participates in the program. He tells in 'De Lijn en Omstreken' about how he struggled with his adoption and how he tries to help a young girl who is experiencing the same on television.

The people know Bernal mainly from the megahit Que Si, Que No. On the street, his friends called him "The Colombian" because he was adopted from the South American country. "I liked that, because I was looking for my identity, and I also attracted a lot of Turkish and Moroccan boys, that made me feel good."

Slap in face

Bernal was three months when his biological parents put him away. It was not until he was 18 years old that he heard why in Colombia. "I was an accident, my mother wanted a job and went to bed with someone who could take care of it, when I heard that it was a slap in my face."

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Koraput: Twin baby girls, whose mother died after giving birth, were handed over to the Koraput Missionaries of Charity, an orphanage, by the District Child Protection Unit (DPCU) today after no one came forward claiming custody of the newborns.

According to sources, on November 23, the twin girls were delivered by a woman on the roadside on Kalibeda-Pottangi road. However, the woman died immediately after delivery. The newborns were brought to Koraput Saheed Laxman Nayak (SLN) Medical College and Hospital by their father and other family members. The duo was admitted to the Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) as their health condition was critical, added sources. However, after two days, the family members left the hospital and didn’t return.

The SNCU in-charge informed about the matter to the District Child Protection Unit following which a joint team including Child Welfare Committee (CWC) members reached the hospital and took custody of the twins and handed them to the Missionaries of Charity, informed sources.

Red block requires new investigation for root in adoption case

The National Board of Appeal had to retrieve information from Danish adopted children, but gave up. TV 2 has found them in an orphanage in India, where they risk going to.

Letters from biological mothers, contact information on family members and mole-fed consent statements. It is just a sample of the many papers on Danish adoptive children that are scattered at the Indian children's home Shejar Chhaya.

It is the children's life, says the Social Democrats' social spokesperson, Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil.

Together with the rest of the red block and the Danish People's Party, she is shocked that the information has never found its way to Denmark. Especially because in 2014 a study was launched after the orphanage came under accusation of illegal child trafficking.

Part 1 of a 3-part blog series about The Coalition’s National Program Advisor, Ian Forber Pratt

Ian Forber-Pratt went to the courthouse in 2009 to begin his first case as an Extreme Recruiter. He entered the courtroom to the sound of screaming. Ian backed against the wall as Mallory*, age 14, was wheeled out of the chamber, strapped down to a gurney.

In many ways, Mallory was typical of the kids served by Extreme Recruitment®. She was a teen. Her mother struggled with opioid addiction. Her father unknown. As a child in foster care, Mallory did not live with a foster family. Instead, she bounced from institution to institution. At 13, she had a child of her own who was quickly separated and placed with another family.

Ian did not fit the profile of someone working directly with the hardest-to-place youth in foster care. In his second year of a Master’s of Social Work program at the Brown School at Washington University, most of his peers were auditing policy and beginning academic research. But Ian’s passion was always to directly impact the lives of vulnerable children. As he searched for a practicum opportunity, he found a group of reform-minded social workers at the Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition. He cold-called for a job.

When Ian started as a practicum student at The Coalition, the child welfare landscape was radically different. Though Washington University taught a curriculum of data, outcomes, and measurable success, those doing the work did not speak the same language. Social work was largely based on what felt right. The Coalition was looking to inject more rigor into the system.

A United Nations special rapporteur has said there is an urgent need for a comprehensive examination of forced and illegal adoptions here and warned the State’s investigation into mother and baby homes “is not broad enough to uncover the full scale of illegal adoptions”.

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio found significant issues with the “limited scope” of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes.

Ms de Boer-Buquicchio, the special rapporteur on the sale and exploitation of children, has also claimed there is “a culture of silence” in Ireland around issues of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation.

She said there was limited data on child abuse, and what was available “cannot clarify the number of cases of sex abuse and exploitation of children that make it to court and their outcomes”.

The special rapporteur visited Ireland for a week last May, when she met government representatives, Tusla, gardaí and others.

PANAJI: With a low fertility rate of 1.76 children born per woman, an increasing number of Goan couples are looking at adoption. While this seems

like a win-win situation in most other states, the scenario in Goa is not optimal for adoption.

In Goa, Caritas in Panaji, and Matruchaya in Ponda, are the only qualified agencies to give children up for adoption under the Central Adoption

Resource Authority (CARA) guidelines. While Matruchaya puts up five or less children for adoption annually, Caritas says they have roughly a dozen

children looking for a new home every year. These numbers are not enough to meet the adoption needs of the state.