NEW DELHI: The Centre has amended the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules to allow female and male government servants to avail of child adoption leave and paternity leave respectively, for pre-adoption foster care of a child aged below one year. In either case, the government employee should have less than two surviving children.

Before the latest amendment, Rule 43AA of CCS (Leave) Rules, 1972, entitled male government servants to a 15-day paternity leave within a period of six months from the date of valid adoption. Similarly, Rule 43B provided for a 180-days child adoption leave for female government employees immediately from the date of adoption.

To factor in the need for such leave during pre-adoption foster care as well, the department of personnel and training on May 15 notified the Central Civil Services (Leave) (Amendment) Rules, 2023, wherein the amended Rule 43AA states that paternity leave may be granted not only from the date of actual adoption but for pre-adoption foster care as well. In case the child is not taken as a ward by the government employee, such leave already availed shall be debited from any other kind of leave available to his credit.

Similarly, the amended Rule 43B allows female central government employees with less than two surviving children, to be granted child adoption leave for up to 180 days on accepting the child in pre-adoption foster care or on valid adoption, as the case may be. Such leave will be debited from any other category of leave available to the credit of the woman government employee, if the foster care is not followed by adoption of the child.

Salary equal to the pay drawn prior to proceeding on leave, shall be payable during the 15-day paternity leave in case of male employees and during the 180-day child adoption leave in case of female employees.

TEHRAN – More than 38,000 Iranian families have applied for adopting children, Saeed Babaei, an official with the Welfare Organization, has said.

A total of 9,372 families applied for adoption in the past Iranian calendar year (March 2022-March 2023), he added.

“Taking the number of families applied for child adoption over the past three years, the number of adoption applicants exceeded 38,000.

Of course, out of this number, about 6,000 families have been blessed with adopted children in the last three years.”

It is projected to take advantage of other methods for the children to leave nurseries and enter families, even temporarily, he pointed out.

The following list of potential twin pairs is gleamed from our orphanage data books and other sources. It is based on common characteristics such as naming, birth/finding date, shared finding location, similarities, etc. It is provided to assist families in determining if a lost sibling has been adopted by another family. The information includes the child's orphanage name (if known), finding date, gender (if blank female) and health status (if blank healthy), finding age (in days), and qualifiers that suggest a relationship.

If your child is found on this list, contact us and we will try to put you in touch with any other family. Also, please let us know if a relationship is confirmed by DNA testing at 23andMe.com, so that we can help celebrate!

Anhui

Bengbu Orphanage

Name unknown 1/13/99 B-SN 9 (Same birth date/finding date/finding location)

FORGED ADOPTIONS 6: Personal notes or memos that could serve as important clues to tracking down birth parents have often been withheld from adoptees under the current scheme

The oldest international adoptee to share their story with the Hankyoreh was Margaret Conlon, adopted in 1965, while the youngest was Mia Lee Sorensen, adopted in 1988. Regardless of the period in which they were adopted, the majority of adoptees are unable to trust the personal information and records about them held by adoption agencies, and they expressed frustration over the difficulty of even accessing this information.

The National Center for the Rights of the Child (formerly Korea Adoption Services) was established under the Ministry of Health and Welfare in line with an amendment to the Act on Special Cases Concerning Adoption in 2012 for the purpose of post-adoption follow-up services. The transfer and release of information on adoptees became a hot topic at this time, but adoption agencies including the national center still only entered 51 basic items of factual information including the names and addresses of adoptees and their birth parents. Other information such as consultation records and personal notes or memos that could serve as important clues to tracking down birth parents were not released.

Adoption experts believe adoption agencies should apologize for the common practice of illegally forging documents in the past and release the original copies of all documents, including consultation records, with no filters.

“To adoptees, even a small note that pertains to their roots is very precious,” said Noh Hye-ryeon, a professor of social welfare at Soongsil University who formerly worked in the overseas division of Holt Children’s Services and an adoption agency in San Jose, California. “They even say the documents are imbued with the life of the mother who gave them up, and want a chance to personally hold them in their hands.”

Authorities in a central Indian state are continuing to target a Catholic orphanage despite court orders preventing them from attempting to remove children living there, its administrators say.

The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh on May 15 issued an order to shift 26 boys and girls from the St. Francis Sevadham Orphanage in Sagar diocese to a government-run shelter within two days.

However, the order was withdrawn a day later after diocesan officials filed a contempt of court petition with the state's top court.

It has become very difficult for us to run the orphanage as government agencies continue to harass us, Father Sinto Varghese, its director told UCA News.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court in December 2021 directed authorities not to remove the children and also sought a report from the CWC explaining the need to do so.

A woman doctor has been detained by the cops for selling babies in Ulhasnagar. A social activist posed as a mother and met the doctor three months ago seeking a son, but the doctor couldn*t arrange for one immediately. However, a couple of days ago the doctor called the woman and said she could procure a boy against a payment of Rs 7 lakh. The doctor was caught red-handed while handing over the baby.

Social activists had got a hint about Dr Chitra Chainani being involved in the baby-selling racket and decided to expose her. Her clinic is located at Meena Apartment, Bhagat Singh Kawa Ram Chowk area of Camp Number 3 in Ulhasnagar. The business of selling children had started from this clinic some time ago. While locals knew of this business for many years, no one had the courage to come forward.

Finally, social activist Sania Hinduja got information about the racket and sent a woman, Jyoti More, as a dummy client to Dr Chainani. More told the doctor she has two daughters and wanted a son. But, even after working on all angles for three months, activists could not break the deal. Two days ago, Dr Chainani called More about a 22-day-old boy. More immediately informed Hinduja, who alerted the Women Child Welfare Department and Crime Branch of Thane police. The teams immediately rushed to Ulhasnagar and caught Dr Chainani red-handed.

The mother of the child had brought her infant son to sell. Dr Chainani was to get Rs 3 lakh from the final sale amount. "We suspect that deals of more than 10 children have been done here," said Hinduja. At the time of going to press, cops were in the process of registering an FIR against Dr Chainani and four others in the case.

On Sunday, VG revealed illegal adoptions from South Korea. On Monday, adoptee Uma Feed (40) reported the state and the adoption broker Verdens barn for human trafficking and knowledge of document forgery.

On Monday afternoon, adoptee Uma Feed reported the Norwegian state for illegal adoption practices.

The report follows VG's revelations about illegal adoptions from South Korea to Norway.

After several years of searching, Feed (40) has recently found his biological parents in South Korea. The answer came when she got a hit in a DNA database .

The parents in South Korea have said that they did not know that their daughter had been adopted away, and that they had been looking for her since she was ten days old.

Another 237 cases will be looked into by the commission, which had already begun a probe into 34 cases in December 2022

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Korea plans to investigate the adoption process in 237 cases between the 1960s and 1990s involving South Korean children suspected of having been adopted overseas under false pretenses.

This second decision to initiate an investigation comes after a prior one made in December of last year. Among those whose adoptions are being investigated is the US citizen William Vorhees, whose story was shared in a recent Hankyoreh report on fraudulent adoptions.

According to the Hankyoreh’s investigation on Tuesday, the commission plans to make a decision as early as June on initiating a second investigation for possible human rights violations and abuses of public authority in the overseas adoptions of 237 South Korean children.

Between August and December 2022, 372 applicants and the organization Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG), which is the world’s largest Korean adoptee community, submitted investigation requests to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which made an initial decision in December to investigate 34 of those cases.

FORGED ADOPTIONS 6: Personal notes or memos that could serve as important clues to tracking down birth parents have often been withheld from adoptees under the current scheme

The oldest international adoptee to share their story with the Hankyoreh was Margaret Conlon, adopted in 1965, while the youngest was Mia Lee Sorensen, adopted in 1988. Regardless of the period in which they were adopted, the majority of adoptees are unable to trust the personal information and records about them held by adoption agencies, and they expressed frustration over the difficulty of even accessing this information.

The National Center for the Rights of the Child (formerly Korea Adoption Services) was established under the Ministry of Health and Welfare in line with an amendment to the Act on Special Cases Concerning Adoption in 2012 for the purpose of post-adoption follow-up services. The transfer and release of information on adoptees became a hot topic at this time, but adoption agencies including the national center still only entered 51 basic items of factual information including the names and addresses of adoptees and their birth parents. Other information such as consultation records and personal notes or memos that could serve as important clues to tracking down birth parents were not released.

Adoption experts believe adoption agencies should apologize for the common practice of illegally forging documents in the past and release the original copies of all documents, including consultation records, with no filters.

“To adoptees, even a small note that pertains to their roots is very precious,” said Noh Hye-ryeon, a professor of social welfare at Soongsil University who formerly worked in the overseas division of Holt Children’s Services and an adoption agency in San Jose, California. “They even say the documents are imbued with the life of the mother who gave them up, and want a chance to personally hold them in their hands.”

Senimah keeps her promise to the family that adopted her son, Jordy Nijkerk. He's not going to look for it. After being separated by thousands of kilometers for 43 years, mother and son were reunited.

REVELATION OF ZANUAR BUSTOMI, Surabaya

ARTIMAH could not hold back her tears when she met Jordy Nijkerk at Ngagel Mulyo Gang IV (3/5). Mother and child hug each other to miss. "I do not sell children," said Senimah.

Senimah has repeatedly said this sentence to emphasize that she really loves Jordy. He had been looking for his son. However, the family that adopted Agus Purnomo, Jordy's birth name, brought him to live in the Netherlands.

Not many words were spoken at the beginning of the mother and child encounter. The two of them just hugged each other. Senimah does not want to lose her child for the second time. Jordy finally found his biological mother back.