Children should not suffer from identity crisis

Wahida Banu

Birth Registra-tion of children is a means to access the basic services and facilities available at the community level to nurture and exercise their rights. It is the key to ensuring the rights of the child.

A birth certificate serves as a legal age verification document acknowledging the individuals existence and status before the law. It is urgent that boys and girls to be identified as the citizens of the country. Birth Registration is now compulsory for every citizen to receive sixteen basic services in the country.

These are; passport, marriage registration, admission to school and college, applying for job, driving license, over ID, land registration, opening a bank account, import and export license, getting water, gas and electric connections, tax identification number(TIN), contractor license, approval of the home design, vehicle registration, trade license and getting on the national voter list.

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Published: January 11, 2019 1:21:28 am

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Motalib Weijters returns to Dhulia

'I will bring you happiness on your old age', Motalib promised his mother Rockea three years ago at the farewell ....

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Run away from home, not as a rebellious teenager, but as a five-year-old boy who was hungry and afraid his father would give him another beating. He ended up among the begging street children of Barisal, a port city in Bangladesh. 'For three rainy seasons' he wandered around.

Until a man from a children's home took him away. If he were to become an orphan, he could be eligible for adoption. It worked. The six-year-old Bengalese Motalib started a new life with the Weijters family in Wanroij.

Number of intercountry adoptions historically low

Last year only 32 foreign children found a new home with a Flemish family through adoption. In 2017 there were still 59 and in 2012 even 122. This is evidenced by figures that Flemish MP Katrien Schryvers (CD & V) has requested from Minister of Welfare Vandeurzen (CD & V). The number of intercountry adoptions has been decreasing for years. In 2012, 122 children were adopted from abroad in Flanders. Even then there was a downward trend. After 2012 - the year in which the parliament passed a new decree on intercountry adoption - the number of intercountry adoptions went even further down. From 2013 there were never more than seventy, and by 2018 there were barely 32 intercountry adoptions, a historically low figure.

The 32 inter-country adopted children in 2018 come from twelve different countries (Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, China, Philippines, Haiti, India, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Thailand, United States, Vietnam, South Africa). Not only were there fewer adoptions in 2018, but a number of channels remained inactive or were completely stopped. From Chile, Ethiopia, Guinea and Poland, children were adopted in 2017, but not in 2018.

"The number of intercountry adoptions has fallen sharply worldwide in recent years and that may not increase spectacularly in the coming years," says CD & V parliamentarian Katrien Schryvers.

According to her, there are various reasons for the decline. For example, more attention is being paid to reception in the countries of origin. "The number of children adopted from the same channel is also very limited. New channels are being researched, but that requires a great deal of expertise and time. That is why it is recommended that the three adoption services that are active in Flanders better coordinate their operations and examine how close cooperation can be realized. Only then can the necessary expertise be retained. "

Girl child preferred: As many as 33 girls and 10 boys adopted by couples from outside India, last year. Parents in India adopt 94 girls and 49 boys.

Inter-country adoption of children from Uttar Pradesh is on the rise. Records of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), a pan-India agency, show that more and more foreigners and non-resident Indians (NRI) are opening their arms to children from the state. Also, in both international and in-country adoptions, there is a marked preference for the girl child.

According to CARA, 43 children from UP were adopted by parents located outside India, in 2018. This is ten times more than the number of inter-country adoptions witnessed by the state in 2014-15 -- four.

In another heartening development, the state, where the sex ratio is 913 females against 1,000 males, 49 boys and as many as 94 girls were adopted by domestic couples last year.

An official of the state women and child development department, Puneet Mishra, said, “Now, things are changing. Even in-country adoptions have a fair share of girl children.”

‘Ik vergelijk het met het misbruik in de kerk: daar heerste ook lang een omerta’, zegt Prakash Goossens. Gert Jochems

In ons land wonen naar schatting 7.000 mensen die als kind geadopteerd werden vanuit het buitenland. Velen van hen zijn op zoek naar het échte verhaal achter hun adoptie.

‘Wie zegt dat ook wij niet verkocht zijn?’

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BANGLADESH - Adoption law ‘needs revision,’ says nun

Published Date: February 8, 2010

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Infants at the St. Benedict Creche

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (UCAN) — The present adoption law in Bangladesh does little to help couples who want to adopt orphans and hence needs revision, says a nun who works for abandoned children.