After living as a male for two years, a teen from Montana decided to detransition, realizing that she had been misled by online trends and influencers

In a case that highlights the influence of social media, a teenager from Montana has opened up about how TikTok led her to believe she was transgender. Ash Eskridge, now 16, revealed that after spending countless hours on the popular app during the pandemic, she became convinced that transitioning was the solution to her struggles with depression.

Ash Eskridge, now 16, revealed that after spending countless hours on TikTok, she became convinced that transitioning was the solution to her struggles with depression.

However, after living as a male for two years, Eskridge has decided to detransition, realizing that she had been misled by online trends and influencers. Her story sheds light on the complex issues surrounding gender identity and the impact of social media on vulnerable individuals.

TikTok Effect: Misleading Content and Vulnerability

KOCHI: Children born to victims of sexual assault, even after legal adoption should not be forced for DNA blood sample tests, said HCThe High Court Justice K Babu put an interim stay to the many lower court decisions allowing DNA samples to be taken from such children

Kerala State Legal Service Authority(KELSA) controlled Victims Rights Center project coordinator advocate Parvati Menon earlier made a report saying the procedure was an intrusion into the privacy of such children who will get strangled in thoughts if revealed their identity

“The child would have blended so well with the adopted family that a sudden revelation that he/she is an adopted child and that too of a rape victim can imbalance their emotional status and can result in them exhibiting behavioral disorders and aberrations,” said the report by the Victim Rights Centre

The report reached the court through the advocate general. Meanwhile, the single bench has asked for a response from Government and KELSA and scheduled the next hearing on July 21

The DNA samples can be collected from children only for cases including alimony and divorce

If parents are unable to take care of their children, the latter may end up in foster care. But what if the authorities believe that the couple will never be able to take care of their children? Such a case may end up in forced adoption.

And the number of these cases is rising in Denmark. Contrary to the trend of decline in international adoptions, the number of domestic adoptions is increasing. Often, these adoptees come from families who are socially disadvantaged and do not want to give up their child, Kristeligt Dagblad writes.

Between 2015 and the spring of 2023, 157 children were forcibly adopted, statistics from the Danish Appeals Authority show. In addition, the authority refused the adoption of 18 other children.

Michael Vinther Hansen says to Kristeligt Dagblad that the decision to remove children from their biological parents starts with the interest of the child. "It is only a decision that is taken when we assess that parents are permanently unable to take care of their own children", the deputy head of Children, Youth and Families in Lolland explains.

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• My twins aren't technically twins, they are virtual twins instead.
• Virtual twins are kids born less than six months apart and not biologically related, but raised together.

I have twin 13-year-old boys. Sort of. One is 12, and one is 13 because we're in that pocket of the year where they're different ages. My twins aren't technically twins. They're virtual twins.

The accepted definition of virtual twins is siblings less than six months apart and not biologically related. Virtual twins sometimes go by other nicknames, such as almost twins, twiblings, or artificial twins.

My kids are four months apart. They're both adopted from China, and they are not biologically related to one another. We adopted them in 2012 and 2013 when they were 2 and 3 years old. After adopting our son Zack at age 2, we quickly decided to adopt again. The paperwork for our second adoption went very quickly and smoothly, and we were matched with a little boy, Kyle, four months older than Zack.

They have a twin-like relationship

As an adoptive mother you are not only a parent, but often also a care provider. That is something Hoda Hamdaoui did not realize beforehand.

Hoda Hamdaoui (49) knew from an early age that she wanted to adopt a child. Together with her mother she was a big fan of the TV program Spoorloos. Crying on the couch, she saw how presenter Derk Bolt flew around the world to unite adopted children with often poverty-stricken biological parents. She decided that she also wanted to adopt a child later.

About thirty years later the time had come, and baby Damir – Arabic for 'conscience' – came into her life. She tells her story in the recently published book De Goede Mama (Pluim Publishers), in which women with a migration background talk about motherhood. She tells how she experienced the first years as a single adoptive mother. It was not an easy time. Damir was a sweet but laborious child who needed a lot of care.

After the interview with the Kantteken, she sends a few photos of her adopted son. He is now a big toddler, with sensitive eyes and a beautiful head of dark hair. Hamdaoui contributed to the book, she says, because she thinks it is important that women of color are also present in literature about motherhood. They are now barely represented. But actually, she says, her story is not about origins at all. Because motherhood is universal and so is adopting a child.

How did Damir come into your life?

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Varadaan Indian Association For Promotion Of Adoption And Child Welfar is a non-profit organisation, established in 1991 that works primarily in the domain of Education. Its primary office is in Nagpur, Maharashtra.

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In the raw and unflinching drama Earth Mama, Olympian-turned-director Savanah Leaf centres a woman fighting to get her kids out of an oppressive system

Eleven years ago Savanah Leaf competed at the London games as a member of Team GB’s first ever Olympic volleyball team. But to hear the London-born, Oakland-raised film-maker tell it now, that was nothing compared to the pressure of making her first feature film. “It was really tough,” she says to the Guardian. “At times I was looking around like, damn, how are we going to finish today?”

That A24-stamped indie – Earth Mama – hits US theaters this weekend after a warm reception at the Sundance Film Festival. And, well, “tough” is definitely one way to sum up this 100-minute heart render. Another: Gia, a pregnant single mother, is straining to recover from past drug use and the two small children put in foster care as a result, and barely has strength remaining to keep pushing.

Gia is bogged down inside a crappy apartment with her call-girl sister, stuck working a soul-crushing job at a mall portrait studio staging portraits with newborns and young moms. She has to endure case workers giving her a hard time about being late to supervised visitations, and for not sacrificing enough time to participate in reunification programs. She seems fated to end up like too many Black woman left to fend for themselves in Oakland’s concrete jungle. And yet she keeps going. “She’s definitely an Olympian, too” says Tia Nomore, who plays Gia. “A street Olympian. Shorty is jumpin’ through hoops, OK? She’s absolutely persevering.”

The Search Squad uses old-fashioned snooping skills to bring families together.

By Danielle Campoamor

One Facebook group is showing the true power of social media by helping people find the missing pieces of their lives.

A group named Search Squad uses old-fashioned snooping skills and connections on the social media app Facebook to help reunite family members around the world who have been separated by either adoption or other factors.

The group, which is volunteer-based and who call themselves 'Search Angels', say that everything they do is free of charge. To date, the group has helped thousands of people learn more about who they are, where they came from and — perhaps most importantly — complete their forever families.

A change in the law has contributed to more Danish children being forcibly adopted, writes Kristeligt Dagblad.

In 2022, the Danish Appeals Board released eight more children for forced adoption nationwide than the year before.
 

This is shown in an extract from the Danish Appeals Authority's case processing system according to Kristeligt Dagblad.

We see that there are recommendations for forced adoption, even if the parents of placed children comply with all agreements on contact and have good contact

BITTEN KJÆRSGAARD, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY

A total of 37 children were forcibly adopted in 2022 compared to 29 in 2021.

Clifford Chance Badea and STOICA & Associații law firms were issued a final ruling to cancel one of the largest fines imposed in recent years by the Competition Council, amounting to EUR 13.5 million, in an investigation into an alleged abuse of a dominant position.

The case brought together the legal team of Orange Romania including Milena Horvat, Legal Affairs and Corporate Director și Andrei Brujan, Corporate and Technology Legal Division Manager, and one of the best lawyers in Romania.

On behalf of the STOICA & Associates law firm, the team was coordinated by Emeritus Professor, PhD, Valeriu Stoica and included Senior Partner Dan-Rareș Răducanu and Senior Associate Constantin – Cosmin Pintilie.

On behalf of the Clifford Chance Badea law firm, the team was coordinated by Counsel Simona Neagu, Head of the Bucharest Litigation practice and included Of Counsel Eleonora Udroiu, coordinator of the Competition practice, and Senior Associate Vicu Buzac.