AUG 28 2001

Adoptions From Laos

From: US

- Do you have any info. on adopting Lao nationals?

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11-27-2010, 10:43 AM

Cecile81

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Adoption, toujours le grand flou 

Publié le samedi 19 février 2011 à 01H00

Toutes les tentatives de donner un cadre à l’adoption en Polynésie ont échoué. La pratique du don d’enfant entre familles polynésiennes et métropolitaines se poursuit sans structure, ni accompagnement. Au grand dam de toutes les parties prenantes.

Marielle et Olivier Chautard, en compagnie de leurs trois enfants Poerani, Hinanui et Vaea. “Nous avons les deux situations : adoption simple et plénière” explique le couple. “Les mamans ont choisi. Elles ont choisi plénière pour protéger les enfants d’un père biologique avec lequel il fallait couper le lien juridique. Cela ne nous pose aucun problème.”

ADELINE BRISSET

A call for justice for families wrongly accused in baby adoption scandal?

3rd March 2004

Bozena Michalowska-Howells

The recent judgment overturning the conviction of Angela Cannings, has thrown light into a dark corner of the British legal system.

Angela Cannings was convicted of killing her 3 children on the basis of Professor Roy Meadow’s now discredited theory of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP). The theory espouses that some mothers harm their children to draw attention to themselves. The Court of Appeal’s decision in her case has opened the door for the review of 258 cases of child deaths where the parents were convicted of killing their babies. If found that those parents were wrongly convicted and imprisoned, they would be rightly entitled to compensation under section 113 of the Criminal Justice Act for their wrongful imprisonment and the additional tragedy of being falsely accused of murdering their children.

'Stalinist' social workers 'took children from loving mothers' By LAURA CLARK and PAUL BENTLEY Last updated at 8:34 AM on 13th April 2010 Comments (51) Add to My Stories Social workers behaved like officials in 'Stalin's Russia or Mao's China' in attempting to remove children from loving mothers, senior judges have said. They warned that social workers in two separate cases tried to put children in foster care without giving their mothers a proper chance to prove they were fit parents. Their actions risked fuelling public perceptions that social workers are 'arrogant and enthusiastic removers of children from their parents', Lord Justice Wall said. Battle: The couple with their son in Spain, before he was taken into care, have won the right to battle the decision for their eldest daughter to be adopted In one case, Devon County Council was attempting to remove a baby from his teenage mother because social workers believed she had a habit of forming relationships with dangerous men. But Lord Justice Aikens warned that social workers were effectively saying to the mother: 'Whatever you may do doesn't make any difference - we are going to take your child away.' He added: 'That is more like Stalin's Russia or Mao's China than the West of England - that is the impression you give.' In a separate case, Lord Justice Wall criticised the 'shocking' failure of social workers in the London borough of Greenwich to support a mother seeking to break free from an abusive relationship to win back her two children, who are in care. He said the case would do little to dispel the public perception of social workers in care proceedings as 'trampling on the rights of parents and children' while removing youngsters into 'an unsatisfactory care system'. The judge, who will today be sworn in as president of the High Court's Family Division, becoming the most senior family law judge in the UK, acknowledged that social workers were often 'damned if they do and damned if they do not'. But he insisted they had a clear legal duty to 'unite families rather than separate them'. His criticisms will feed public fears that social workers, in extreme cases, behave like 'child-snatchers'. There are concerns they sometimes break up families too readily and can be prejudiced against parents for frivolous reasons. In the Devon case, social workers believed a teenage mother, known in court as S, was unfit to care for her baby boy, H, because of her tendency to form relationships quickly with potentially dangerous men. Social workers said the father of her first child had been violent and the youngster had already been adopted. They argued that her new baby should also be placed in foster care and eventually adopted. But a county court had previously ruled the mother should be allowed a final assessment to see if she was fit to keep the baby. The council disagreed and went to the Court of Appeal last week seeking to overturn the directive. But Lord Justice Wall, sitting with Lord Justice Aikens, described Devon's argument as 'pretty unattractive'. 'Local authorities don't seem to understand that the public perceive them as pre-judging cases of this nature,' he said. The judges stopped short of saying the mother should keep her child, insisting only she should be given a fair hearing. Lord Justice Aikens said there was no evidence the mother had maltreated her baby in any way - or evidence that the violent father of her first child would have anything to do with baby H. He went on to condemn social workers' 'Stalinist' actions. The council has now withdrawn its appeal. A council spokesman said: 'This is a difficult and complex case in which the county council's first priority had to be for the welfare and protection of a vulnerable child.' In the Greenwich case, a mother known only as EH was seeking the return of her five-year-old son, R, and daughter RA, two. They had been taken into care in January 2008 after doctors discovered her daughter's left upper arm had been broken in three places. Medical staff believed it was not accidental and a judge later that year concluded the children's father, who had a history of violence, was responsible. Since June last year, the father had stopped having contact with the children, while the mother remained 'steadfast in her commitment' to them, the judges said. There was 'abundant evidence that she is a warm and loving mother'. But social workers in Greenwich were accused of failing to support her attempts to break contact with her violent ex-partner. Lord Justice Wall said the conduct of social services was 'hard to credit'. The court said Greenwich should give the mother more support and review its attempt to have the children adopted. The two cases will further rock public confidence in social services following the Baby P scandal, where social workers failed to spot signs of serious abuse and allowed themselves to be manipulated by unfit parents.

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Spanish mother reunited with daughter she was told had died at birth

Case is latest in growing scandal over babies allegedly stolen by doctors and sold for adoption over several decades

Giles Tremlett in Madrid

guardian.co.uk, Sunday 20 February 2011 18.16 GMT

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