German couple’s surrogate kids may end up stateless

Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN 16 December 2009, 03:36am IST

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court's worst apprehension appears to have come true. The surrogate twin babies of a German couple have virtually become

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information about healthy referrels in Bulgaria...

This is written by an adoptive parent that was in Bulgaria this past week to visit her down syndrome son;

As for what my agency told me, they said that the MOJ told agencies last week that they do not, at this time, have any new referrals for young children. They have requested that directors (at the baby houses) send them any new children avaliable for adoption in January. It will then take them 2-3 months to do everything required to start giving this information to the agencies. As far as "young healthy" children, here is what I was told:

The MOJ wants to "fill the requests" of families that have sent in dossiers, but the children are NOT there. There is a waiting list in Bulgaria of Bulgarian families that want to adopt healthy young children up to the age of 2. As soon as this was said, I immediately said, "Yes, but what about the Roma children. In the US, we are told that Bulgarian families do not adopt the Roma children." This is the reply that I got, "Shelley, what do you know about the Roma culture. Do you know why we call them Gypies?" (Ummm, no I don't) It was then explained to me about how their culture (Roma) thinks in regards to children. Basically, if a healthy baby is born to a Gypsy woman (family) and the child can not be taken care of by the birth mother, then the " gypsy family unit"(not my words) takes the child in and raises it. If the child has special needs, then the child is abandoned (place in an orphanage).

Parliament’s committee chairman: “Adoption by foreigners sharply reduced in Azerbaijan”

[ 15 Dec 2009 12:25 ]

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva – APA. Azerbaijan’s Family Code is expected to be amended for prevention of adoption problems, said the Chairman of the Parliament’s Social Policy Committee Hadi Rajabli, APA reports.

According to the amendments, persons above 60 and not having normal living conditions can not adopt the children.

One of the amendments is about the protection of the adoptee property right until 18. Rajabli said so far the property of such children was protected by the officials or their relatives. “The problems will be solved after this issue is described in the Family Code”.

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DE STANDAARD ANALYSE — 'Adoptie bevindt zich wereldwijd in crisis' kopte De Standaard gisteren. In Brussel ging die dag een staten-generaal van start die de knelpunten voor Vlaanderen onder de loep moet nemen. Eén van de grootste problemen? Te weinig kinderen voor te veel ouders. Er staan in Vlaanderen meer dan 400 kandidaat-ouders op een wachtlijst. Ter vergelijking: vorig jaar werden 210 buitenlandse kindjes door Vlamingen geadopteerd. Dat terwijl Bulgaarse weeskinderen nog altijd in erbarmelijke omstandigheden opgroeien of de straten van Calcutta overspoeld worden door bedelende weeskinderen.

Dat tekort aan buitenlandse kinderen er niet altijd geweest. Brigitte Slot, beleidsmedewerker bij het ministerie van Financiën in Nederland, schrijft in Justitiële Verkenningen over de beginjaren van adoptie: 'Het aanbod was vele malen groter dan de vraag. Oorlog, armoede, sociale ontwrichting, waren oorzaak van een niet onaanzienlijk aanbod van kinderen.'

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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 11:48

The "2010 AiBi. Report on Child Abandonment: an Emergency - Life After Institutional Care" is now ready and will be soon published. This is the third report released from Ai.Bi. after the first two issued in 2007 and 2008 on respectively child abandonment and the social protection systems of Out-of-Family Children in five E.U. countries.

The report is one of the two concrete outputs (results) of the EU co-financed project named Life After Institutional Care which Ai.Bi. has carried out over the last two years in Italy, France, Romania, Bulgaria and Latvia to help identify effective social policies for the successful social inclusion of out-of-family youths.

The second output has been a set of guidelines on how to encourage the professional and social inclusion of young boys and girls and it will be published itself.

Government to launch special programmes for dalit women – Smt.Krishna Tirath

Delhi , December 15,2009 18:13 IST

The Ministry of Women & Child Development will launch special programmes for the empowerment and welfare of dalit women across the country, Self-help groups of such women will also be provided more funding and training for capacity building through Rashtriya Mahila Kosh. More short-stay homes and help line services will also be arranged by Centre Social Welfare Board. This was stated by Smt.Krishna Tirath, Minister of Women & Child Development inaugurating Dalit Women’s Congress “Abhaya Jeevan” for Peace, Equity and Progress, here today.

Highlighting the problems of Dalit Women in the country, Smt. Krishan Tirath said Welfare of such women needs special attention as they have been discriminated against other sections of the society for a long. She said Government has very high priority for education, health and self-employment of such women. Though many programmes have been drafted by various ministries for this purpose. There is need to create mass awareness so that these women could come forward to take the advantage of suchschemes and programmes. She said special cell for Dalit women to investigate injustice is being set up at National Commission for Women. The Ministry also conducting study on status of Dalit women so that programmes and policies can be tuned according to the needs of these women. National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has also been asked to develop a road map for welfare of children of Dalit women. The Central Adopting Resource Agency has been requested to study challenges in the adoption of these children. Mrs. Tirath expressed the hope that with the active participation of civil society, status of Dalit women will see massive change very soon.

Addressing the Conference Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Mukul Wasnik stressed on education and better health facilities for Dalit women. He said NGOs should work among the Dalit women to promote education and awareness against social evils like female foeticide and dowry. The Minister announced that by March 2010, all scavengers will be rehabilitated. Mr. Wasnik said that his ministry has successfully started capacity building programme for scavengers for self-employment.