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By CAROLINE WAFULA and MWANGI NDIRANGUPosted Monday, June 22 2009 at 21:01

Mercy's world of Madgeness

EXCLUSIVE by Nick Owens 21/06/2009

Tot flown 6,000 miles from home to meet new mum Madonna and family in London.. and is whisked straight to a Kabbalah meeting

Little Mercy James spent 12 hours flying 6,000 miles to start her new life with adoptive mum Madonna yesterday… then was driven straight to a Kabbalah meeting.

Under cover of darkness in Malawi on Friday the three-year-old was taken from all that was familiar to her, put on a private jet and flown into Madonna’s arms in London.

A gay couple adopted our grandchildren.. and kids think we're dead

Exclusive: By Thomas Smith 21/06/2009

The heartbroken grandparents of two children adopted by a gay couple have been told they will never see them again.

Despite looking after their five-year-old grandson and four-year-old granddaughter for three years, social workers decided they were "too old" and unsuitable to continue.

And, tragically, the children now think that their grandparents are dead.

Foreign Adoption

The lessons of Idah's long journey from Malawi to Burlington

11-year-old Idah, in traditional Malawi dress, in the den of her family's Burlington home.

With their four-year legal battle to adopt from Malawi, Ontario family paved the way for Madonna to do the same. But their stories have sparked fierce debate, as activists worry these cases are flouting the country's laws

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Organisation bids to cut adoption times

Organisation bids to cut adoption times

21 June 2009

By Susan Mitchell

A new organisation that claims it will cut the waiting times for people who want to adopt children from overseas has lodged a formal proposal with the Adoptions Board.

Compass explores the changing nature of inter-country adoption in Australia. In the 1970s hundreds of babies were airlifted out of Vietnam for adoption by Australian families. Today increasing affluence in the developing world, and tighter controls on adoption procedures mean fewer babies are available to would-be Australian parents. It's no longer common for overseas babies to be adopted. They are more likely to be young children. This program explores what happens when a child is adopted out of its birth culture, and examines whether an adopting parent has an obligation to manage ongoing relationships with their child's birth parents and culture.

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• Geraldine Doogue, Presenter
• Deborah Boerne, Producer
• Francoise Fombertaux, Researcher

Teen mom on hunger strike outside court to prevent son’s adoption

20/6/2009

Ana Rita Leonardo gave birth to Martim at the age of 13 and, as she did not have the conditions to care for him, she handed him over to an institution. Recently, Cascais Family Court decided he should be adopted with urgency and so she has since staged a number of protests, the last being a hunger strike outside the Family Court.

The last time Ana Rita Leonardo saw her son was on December 20th 2008 at Aboim Ascenção refuge, and, after getting very distressed to see her leave, the Court decided she should not visit him anymore.

On May 21st she was informed he was to be adopted with urgency.

'Social workers took away my twins after I'd joked that birth spoilt my body'

By VANESSA ALLEN

Last updated at 9:22 AM on 20th June 2009

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Baby uit Leopoldsburg verkocht voor 25.000 euro

zaterdag 20 juni 2009Bron: BELGAAuteur: BELGA

BRUSSEL - Een 39-jarige vrouw uit Leopoldsburg heeft haar baby verkocht aan een koppel uit Noord-Nederland. Ze kreeg zo'n 25.000 euro voor de transactie, zo bevestigen bronnen bij het gerecht. Dat schrijven de concentra-kranten.

Het gerecht kwam de vrouw op het spoor na een reportage op tv. Na verhoor bleek dat ze op 27 juli 2007 in het ziekenhuis van Overpelt was bevallen, maar dat haar zoontje niet in haar gezin woonde. Kort na de geboorte had ze het meegegeven aan een koppel uit Noord-Nederland, dat ze via het internet had leren kennen.

Het kind is verwekt met sperma van de Nederlandse vader.