MEPs demand easing of adoption restrictions

Published Date: 26 January 2011
International adoptions should be encouraged in order to give a family life to children who are abandoned or at risk of becoming institutionalised in orphanages, the European Parliament said this week.
In a resolution agreed by a majority of MEPs in Strasbourg, members urged all EU institutions to play a more active role in facilitating inter-country adoptions and cutting red tape, while safeguarding children's rights.

The agreement stated that while adoption should preferably take place in a child's country of origin, an adoptive family should be found in another member state if this is not possible. MEPs also said placing a child in institutional care should be "the very last option" and only a temporary measure.

The debate focused on EU countries including Romania, Bulgaria and Italy where the problem of abandoned children has become increasingly serious in recent years.

Irish MEP Sean Kelly asked Romania specifically to lift its 2001 embargo on international adoptions, in a bid to prevent abandoned children from being exploited or trafficked for sex. He warned of "international racketeers" who pick up abandoned children and sell them on around the world into a life of slavery and "deplorable exploitation".

"We have an obligation to ensure that this does not happen to any child, which is why we need to open up the situation for good parents who want to adopt children, be they from Ireland, Romania or anywhere," said Mr Kelly.

Heartbreaking moment Chinese adoptive father hugs his daughter as he hands her back to her biological parents after discovering she had been kidnapped from them six years ago

Young girl was adopted by couple from north-west China's Urumqi city

On February 2 the emotional exchange was made between the two fathers

Biological father used social media to track down his lost daughter

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Hundreds of Ontario adoptions on hold amid Motherisk drug-test scandal

Discredited test used as evidence against mothers in thousands of cases

By Mike Crawley, CBC News Posted: Feb 01, 2016 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Feb 01, 2016 11:14 AM ET

As many as 300 Ontario families in the process of adopting a child are now in legal limbo as a judge reviews cases where a flawed drug test may have resulted in children being taken into care of Children's Aid.

As many as 300 Ontario families in the process of adopting a child are now in legal limbo as a judge reviews cases where a flawed drug test may have resulted in children being taken into care of Children's Aid. (Tom Taylor)

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7000 Euro für die Adoption eines Kindes

Zwischen 6000 und 7000 Euro zahlen Ausländer, die ein bulgarisches Kind adoptieren wollen. Dies hat kürzlich Georgi Kremenliev, Vorsitzender der Vereinigung „Kindheit ohne Grenzen“ mitgeteilt, die mit kinderlosen Paaren in Deutschland arbeitet. In diesem Preis einbegriffen sind sämtliche Ausgaben der Vermittler (vom Eingangsgespräch mit der Familie bis zum Boarding des Kindes am Flughafen); die Kosten für die Beglaubigung aller erforderlichen Dokumente, einschl. der Geburtsurkunde, die Gebühr für die Ausstellung eines Reisepasses, das Honorar für Begleiter und Dolmetscher. Die adoptionswilligen Paare besuchen das Kinderheim und haben mindestens fünf Tage Zeit, um das Kind kennen zu lernen. Allerdings ist die Einschaltung einer Vermittlerfirma laut Gesetz nicht obligatorisch, erläutert Milena Parvanova, Expertin im Justizministerium. Es genügt, wenn sich die ausländischen Adoptiveltern mit der jeweils zuständigen Behörde in ihrem Heimatland in Verbindung setzen, die ihnen Unterstützung bei der Abwicklung der Prozeduren erweisen kann.

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Adoption of the sila (II). Suspicions that three minors could become victims of trafficking

28 Jan 2016

Author: Doina Stimpovschii

The children say they prefer to remain in Moldova and do not want to be adopted in the US. Adevarul Photo Archive

A US family insists to adopt three brothers Moldovan minors against their will. The children say that in December last year, the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family (MLSPF), and the Municipal Department for Child Protection have constantly pressed them to accept to go to America.

Sharjah steps up efforts to protect abandoned children

They were abandoned by unknown parents. But they live lives of dignity

Image Credit: Gulf News

Last year, Sharjah witnessed six cases of newborns being abandoned.

Published: 09:00 January 24, 2016 Gulf News

Motions for Resolutions (Rule 133 of the Rules of Procedure)

Coordinators recommended that the following motions for resolutions are not followed-up:

- B8-0004/2015: on setting up a European agency for the adoption of children within

the EU (Aldo Patriciello)

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