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DR besøger Mashos forældre: Fattige presses til at bortadoptere børn

 

DR besøger Mashos forældre: Fattige presses til at bortadoptere børn

02. Dec. 2012 kl. 20:40 Opdateret 02. Dec. 2012 kl. 22:02

Fattige etiopiske kvinder er under massivt pres for at bortadoptere deres børn til kommende forældre i den vestlige verden.

Det rapporterer DRs korrespondent for undersøgende journalistik Line Gertsen fra det fattige afrikanske land Etiopien, som lige nu er centrum for bortadoption til rigere dele af verden.

Masho solgt af staten

Line Gertsen er rejst derned efter en uge, hvor adoption har optaget medierne herhjemme i kølvandet på dokumentarudsendelsen Adoptionens Pris, hvor et dansk forældrepar måtte opgive at tage sig af deres adopterede pige Masho, som i dag lever på børnehjem.

- Mashos forældre føler, at den etiopiske stat har solgt deres barn, siger Line Gertsen.

Fattige kvinder presses til bortadoption

Der er nemlig et massivt pres på fattige forældre til nyfødte børn i Etiopien.

20-årige Semitraest er flygtet til et herberg for kvinder, som ønsker at beholde deres børn og sige nej til adoption. Hun beretter om, hvordan hun blev presset af myndighederne til at bortadoptere.

- De prøver at tage modet fra mig, fortæller Semitraest.

Big business

De, som Semitraest refererer til, er rigtig mange forskellige aktører. Men det er først og fremmest repræsentanter for adoptionsbureauerne og staten, der forsøger at overtale kvinderne til at bortadoptere. Ífølge DRs oplysninger forsøger også læger og hospitaler at presse kvinderne til at give deres barn væk.

Forklaringen er penge. Der er nemlig rigtig mange penge i bortadoption - særligt for et land som Etiopien. Det koster 135.000 kroner at adoptere et barn fra Etiopien gennem et bureau som DanAdopt.

Af de penge går 33.000 til den etiopiske stat, 49.500 til DanAdopt og 39.900 til børnehjemmet. Resten går til administration. Det er store beløb i et fattigt afrikansk land, hvor en retssag nogle steder kan føres for beskedne 10 kroner.

- De kilder, som vi har præsenteret tallene for hernede, er rystede over de store beløb, siger Line Gertsen.

Mashos forældre er uafklarede

Advokaten Muluembet Tilahun fortæller, at der af samme grund fuskes med fødselsdatoer, så børn kan blive adopteret i en senere alder.

Han rådgiver Mashos forældre, som lige nu er voldsomt bekymrede over deres datters skæbne i Danmark og også deres yngre søn Loba, som stadig bor hos de danske forældre.

De ved dog endnu ikke, om de overhovedet ønsker deres børn hjem igen.

UNICEF: Many children not to Denmark

UNICEF: Many children not to Denmark
27th November 2012 at. 09:50 Updated 27th November 2012 at. 10:06 Parents get the impression that their children will come back one day and that they will be able to follow their development in Denmark. But it happens ikke.Foto: from documentary adoption come Price © TV2
 
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Katja Sønder Tuxen

If the adoption of children from other countries should not end in tragedy, we need to focus on that adoption should always be in the child's best interests and no one else.

It says Secretary General of UNICEF, Steen M. Andersen in P1 morning after TV2 documentary adoption come price, which was shown on Monday night.

- Is adoption in the child's interest or it is not in the child's interest? It is the only thing that will decide whether to find adoption takes place or not. Not if it's the parents, not the government, not whether it is in the orphanage or adoption agency interest, says Steen M. Andersen.

Ends in tragedy
In the film we see how the HIV-infected parents reluctantly becomes persuaded to disregard adopt their two children, aged two and four years on promises that they would follow the children's development in Denmark.

But especially the oldest girl Masho found not to be linked to the Danish parents, and therefore ends up family life as a nightmare and Masho sent to the end of the orphanage.

- In this case there is no doubt that the adoption was in the child's interest, says Steen M. Andersen.

Let the child be nearby
Steen M. Andersen stresses that many adopted children come into good, loving families where things are going well.

But in many cases, you should consider whether it is not better is in the child's interest, if it is not going to live in so foreign a country like Denmark.

- One should first look at whether there are others who can take care of the baby nearby before choosing to disregard adopt a completely different country. It can be either in the extended family or a foster family, or it could be adoption within the country, so the child does not also exposed to culture clashes, says Steen M. Andersen.

Culture clash is particularly evident in the adoption come price because it looks as if the parents get the impression that their children just to be looked after by some others who will take good care of them and give them an education, but they will come back to Ethiopia again .

Lifting Bridal
But the promise that they will be allowed to follow the children's development are not met, and in general it seems that they have not known exactly what they were getting into when they said yes available for adoption.

It has got several politicians to talk about human beings and raises the question of whether there was in any way economic interests involved in adoption proceedings.

Read the Political outrage at adoption case

- According to the so-called Hague Convention, there shall be no financial interest in adoption. So in addition to the costs that are for aircraft and dissemination, there must not be a profit on the bottom line. But Ethiopia has not acceded to the Convention, therefore, was to be the private agencies working in Ethiopia to be even more vigilant than they should, says Steen M. Andersen.

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Biological mother: Too late to get Masho back

Biological mother: Too late to get Masho back
28th November 2012 at. 20:38 It's too late to get my daughter back, says the biological mother of the Ethiopian girl Masho. But the father is ready to get her back. © Frithiof Film
 
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REUTERS / Nikoline Vestergaard

There is no question of sending nine-year Masho back to Ethiopia. It is too late - Masho have lived too long in Denmark and has been Dane.

So says Wednesday evening from the girl's biological mother, Sinknesh Haile Mariam, according to TV 2 News has traveled down to visit his mother and father.

The biological parents live in a small poor village 300 kilometers from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

Is concerned
In a clip on TV 2 News The website sees parents become deeply concerned when they hear about her daughter's situation in Denmark.

Read also OVERVIEW: Here are the requirements to parents before adoption

- After I saw the movie, I really was worried. Especially when you look Masho try to help carry a bag, then rejects her mother. I can see that Masho feel alone, says mother Sinknesh Haile Mariam.

Dad wants her home
But there is great discussion ions at home on Masho. The father is in fact ready to get her daughter back even after five years.

- I am the biological father. And I would be happy again if I could be allowed to take care of my own child, says Hussen Immishu.

The case in brief:
The case of Masho presented in the documentary "adoption come price".

Here, then, how the four-year Ethiopian girl was adopted by a Danish couple from Holbaek, although the girl apparently was fine with her biological parents.

Also read Psychologist: Parents need to be prepared for adoption come Price

The biological parents, however, had been diagnosed with HIV and had been told that they would die within a few years.

This was not as free medicine from the state keeps them alive.

The documentary was followed then the girl's life in Holbaek, where it went awry with the adoptive parents, who had been unable girl's violent reaction to being removed from his biological parents - and they were allegedly did not have the necessary means to cope with problems with her daughter.

Also read Adoption Parents: OK we get beat now

The Danish parents ended up abandoning the girl, who now lives in orphanages.

Mashos biennial brother, who came to Denmark while her lives with his Danish parents and well.

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Biologisk mor: For sent at få Masho tilbage

Orphanages French scarred parents their children

Orphanages French scarred parents their children

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Saddleback aims for zero orphans in Rwanda

Saddleback aims for zero orphans in Rwanda

by ASSIST News ServicePosted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 11:55 (GMT)

In honour of World AIDS Day on 1 December, Saddleback Church is setting its own goal of reaching zero orphans throughout Rwanda by 2015.

The target is supplemental to UNAIDS' three-year strategy of "Getting to Zero", including zero babies born of HIV, zero AIDS-related deaths, zero new HIV infections and zero stigma and discrimination.

"This is a very audacious goal - to help a country be the first to empty their orphanages, helping 3,000 children become part of permanent families, but we know with God all things are possible," said Kay Warren, founder of Saddleback Church's HIV&AIDS Initiative.

Romania Releases New Adoption Figures

NEWS

28 NOV 12

Romania Releases New Adoption Figures

Over 700 Romanian children have been adopted so far in 2012, while some 1,200 families have been cleared for adoption in the country, officials have announced.

Romanian Insider

Documentary puts Danadopt on the spot

Documentary puts Danadopt on the spot

27. nov. 2012 12.54 English

Adoption agency Danadopt is facing fierce criticism after the premiere of a new Danish documentary that features an Ethiopian couple reluctantly giving up their two children, aged 2 and 4, for adoption in Denmark.

"To me, it looks an awful lot like human trafficking," said documentary filmmaker Katrine W. Kjær, the maker of the film Mercy Mercy.

A number of MPs now feel adoptions to Denmark from abroad should be put on hold, until evidence shows that no-one is being coerced into putting their child up for adoption.

Children to get families, not foster care

Children to get families, not foster care

JOSEPHINE TOVEYNovember 22, 2012

                    All in the family, with that dilemma solved ... Patricia Economos with Shaye and Jayde.                    Photo: Dallas Kilponen

EXCLUSIVE

ADOPTION will replace long-term foster care as the preferred method for finding homes for increasing numbers of children in NSW who cannot live with their own families, in a proposed historic shift in government policy.

Italy, the crisis of births: serve 15,000 adoptions a year

Italy, the crisis of births: serve 15,000 adoptions a year
The state of health of a country is based on several factors, not just economic growth, which is essential, but also the environment, culture, education and births. On the latter front, ISTAT (Italian Institute of Statistics) has provided terrible and irrefutable data.
Italy is aging. There are now more than three years that the decline is unstoppable, says the Istat in its report "Birth and fertility of the resident population" havand registered at  546,607, about 15,000 fewer than in 2010.

A disheartening giving, but not surprising. Mainly due to a decline in Italian couples, 40,000 births less than in 2008, but this year also mixed couples (where one partner is foreign) have registered a downward trend in births, inverting the data of recent years. Until last year, in fact, the children of mixed couples continued to grow at a rate of 5,000 children per year, in 2011 instead showed a decrease of 2,000 births. The only good news is that of foreign couples, but also here in a lesser extent than in previous years.

These figures speak for themselves: without a change there is no future for the country of Italy. In the North as in the South, the causes are to be found in the misguided policies that penalize families for years, now put a strain on even the economic crisis. All this concerns also strongly adoptive couples in Italy, burdened by an endless bureaucracy and costs that make the adoption a luxury.

Why not think that a new law on intercountry adoption may compensate for this huge deficit (-15 000 newborns) who is putting the country on his knees? Adoption can be an opportunity for Italy to get closer cooperation with the countries, an important showcase for a stronger foreign policy but also a great response to the crisis of births, now seen almost with resignation.
Otherwise, the line in the birth rate will continue its nosedive and the hope of a future for the beautiful country will remain only a vain illusion.