Irish couples keen to adopt Indian kids

DC | Pramila Krishnan | 6 hours 52 min ago

Frances Fitzgerald.

Chennai: Several Irish parents wish to adopt Indian children now. The Irish government has approached the Indian government to devise time-bound and hassle-free adoption procedures.

Frances Fitzgerald, the first Ireland minister for child and youth affairs, has interacted with Krishna Tirath, Union women and child development ministry and officials in the Central Adoption Resource Authority about the adoption norms.

Brazil prepares guidance booklet for people adopted by foreigners

20/03/2013 02:55 - Portal Brasil

In partnership with various agencies, the Secretariat for Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic (SDH/PR) has established the forms in which people adopted by foreigners can access data regarding their origin. A booklet is to be produced with guidelines on the subject. A meeting on the issue took place on Monday (March 18) afternoon at the SDH/PR headquarters in Brasilia.

According to George Lima, Chief of the National Office for Protection of Child and Adolescent Rights (which is linked to the SDH/PR), there are 14 cases of persons, adopted as children in the 1980s, seeking information on the process and their biological families. 13 of these people are in Israel and one is in the United States.

The idea is for consulates or embassies to serve as an initial point of contact. The booklets will include information on how to proceed with the application and will be made available at these locations. This material is expected to be approved in 15 days. In addition, consular officials will be responsible for providing assistance.

Illegal adoption accused frustrates magistrate

March 20 2013 at 03:24pm

By Tania Broughton

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For Terre des hommes, advocacy is continuing

20 Mar 2013 ADOPTIONSWITZERLAND

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In recent years, international adoption ha, bit by bit, lost ground after repeated scandals linked to cases of abuse, trafficking and child prostitution. In our increasingly globalized world, the drift has gone so far that it is even possible to buy a child direct on the internet. Admittedly, irregularities, badly applied laws and procedures and individual shady cases have always existed in all the countries practising international adoption; on the other hand, the fact of a country and its entire system being corrupt is a more recent phenomenon. Among the States with a high risk of trafficking, one thinks primarily of Romania in the ‘90s, then of other countries like Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Haiti and, more recently, Nepal and Ethiopia being accused of trafficking in children. Meanwhile, the pressure brought by the international community, particularly the host countries, has borne fruit and forced the countries of origin to review the way they function, their legislation and their procedures.

Inter-country adoption is declining

NGOs: The number of adoptable children has decreased by more than half after the new law March 19, 2013

Contradictory figures regarding the number of children that can be adopted The adoption system needs a real change, as the modification of the law from April 2012 led to a setback, the number of children declared adoptable falling to 778, compared to 1736 in 2011, said the coordinator of the SOS Infertility Association, Nicoleta Cristea-Brunel, on Tuesday. according to Mediafax.

The representative of the SOS Infertility Association stated that from April 7, 2012, when the new adoption law came into force, 999 decisions were made regarding the opening of the adoption procedure, but 221 of the applications were submitted to the courts before this date, which which means that only 778 children became adoptable since the amendment of the normative act. According to the data communicated by the Romanian Office for Adoptions, in 2009, 1,730 children were declared adoptable, in the following year, 1,921, and in 2011, another 1,736 children. "There is a need for a real change in the system", said Nicoleta Cristea-Brunel, specifying that since the entry into force of the new law, 365 sentences of imprisonment have been communicated for adoption, of which 28 in Bucharest. 3 years and 3 months, the average age of adopted children The average age of children adopted in the last year was three years and three months, and at the end of last year, in the special protection system there were 1,231 children under 12 months and 2,984 children between one and two years. SOS Infertility coordinator showed that, in the last ten months, practically, in the Capital, there was a two-month adoption in each sector. From his point of view, the situation is an "extremely serious one", showing that in the protection system there are 61,656 children who do not have access to a family because of the too restrictive legal provisions.

Cristea-Brunel also showed that, at the end of February, in Romania there were 1,351 certified foster parents, 1,095 being at the first certificate, 199, at the second, 39, the third and 18, at more than three certificates.

The ORA does not recognize the figures published by the NGO

I was able to give a story, a contour, to my life, and finally I no longer feel empty or in limbo when I think about my origins, who I am.

Anita Godelli - © Photo Council of Europe

Background 

Anita Godelli never knew her mother. Abandoned at birth, she was placed in an orphanage and then taken in by a foster family.

How Adriana Sučić Roginić earned millions in the business of adopting children from Africa through the company "Moja obitelj" doo.

The owner of the Zagreb company "Moja obitelj doo", Adriana Sučić Roginić, through which she organized the adoption of African children, was arrested in the DR Congo last year on suspicion of child trafficking and then taken into custody, where she spent a month.

The authorities in the city of Lubumbashi have also opened an investigation into the woman for allegedly falsifying some of the documentation and failing to comply with the adoption procedures. She was released from custody under unknown circumstances, which is not surprising considering that Congo is considered one of the five countries with the highest rate of corruption in the world. However, because of her, two Croatian missionaries, Fr. Filip Sučić and Fr. Ante Kutleša, subsequently ended up behind bars in Lubumbashi, who were “removed” from the plane that was supposed to take them to Brussels in a police operation, solely because one of them had the same last name as the owner of “Moje obitelji” and were suspected of collaborating.

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In recent years, the Croatian public has had the opportunity to meet Adriana Sučić Roginić in a completely different light through the media. The public was then bombarded with news about the courageous mother who adopted a child from Africa, and then decided to help other potential adoptive parents by founding a company that would provide them with consulting services and thus help them get the child they so desperately wanted. Truth be told, even back then, at the very beginning of Adriana Sučić Roginić's media self-promotion, there were those who did not react well to headlines like "You choose the baby, and I deliver it to you from the Congo".

Dutch Lesbians Raising Turkish Boy Go Into Hiding

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

March 15, 2013 1:14 PM

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch lesbian couple have gone into hiding with their foster son after the boy's biological parents said on television in Turkey that they object to the pair taking care of their child.

The matter is threatening to overshadow an official visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Netherlands next week. Lodewijk Asscher, the Dutch vice prime minister, told reporters Friday that the issue is an internal Dutch matter and that political interference from Turkey is "inappropriate."

Democratic Republic of Congo

March 15, 2013

Notice: Reports of the Removal of Children from Orphanages in the DRC

The U.S. Department of State recently received several reports that children adopted in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reportedly been taken from orphanages by a birth parent or relative after the adoption decree and certificate of non-appeal was issued by Congolese courts. This information reportedly has been presented to adoptive families by their agencies either following the Form I-600 petition approval, or immediately prior to filing the Form I-600 petition.

While there is a specific legal procedure through the Congolese courts for a biological parent or relative to reclaim an abandoned or relinquished child prior to any adoption judgments, once a certificate of non-appeal is issued, the adoption judgment can generally no longer be the subject of appeal or objection. Congolese courts are able to dissolve an adoption at the request of the adoptee or the adoptive parent in exceptional circumstances, but only through appropriate legal processes. Adoptive parents who have already received adoption decrees and certificates of non-appeal, but learn that their child was removed from an orphanage by a birth parent or relative, may wish to seek independent legal counsel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to learn their legal rights as the adoptive parents under Congolese law.

Adopted children are used as medical ‘guinea pigs’ in U.S for pharmaceutical companies to test new drugs

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Adopted children in American families sometimes become “guinea pigs” for pharmaceutical companies to test new drugs. Such children are prescribed five potent psychotropic medications at a time. This is beneficial both for the adoptive parents and health care professionals.

Russian diplomats found that the adoptive mother of Maxim Kuzmin who died in late January in the U.S. gave him a drug called Risperdal. It is a powerful anti-psychotic and anti-hallucination drug prescribed for acute manic attacks in patients with schizophrenia. Why a three-year-old boy not diagnosed with mental illness at the time of adoption would take such a strong drug? American TV journalists of KMID channel while preparing a story about the death of the Russian child talked to a child psychologist and found that Risperdal is also often prescribed for common disorders of psychological development and ASD.

Adepts of the so-called Attachment Therapy recommend wrapping children in a carpet, and then sitting on them. Children are also kept under a cold shower for a long time, locked in a toilet and left without food for several days. Many “advanced” parents on the advice of psychologists come up with even more sophisticated methods, making, for example, children dig their own graves. All these savage practices are implemented by proponents of the attachment therapy as the best way to get children to be obedient and break their will.