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Adoption: A Spanish girl named Sneha, without any information about her background, comes to India to trace her origins. Has Sneha seen her maternal grandmother?

A fifteen-year-old Spanish girl has come to Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in search of her biological mother, wanting to see her at least once before returning to Spain.

A Spanish girl named Sneha, without any information about her background, has come to India to trace her roots. She was adopted by a Spanish couple, and Sneha has been living with them in Spain.

A daughter who came looking for her mother

Adoption: A Spanish girl named Sneha, without any information about her background, comes to India to trace her origins. Has Sneha seen her maternal grandmother?

A fifteen-year-old Spanish girl has come to Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in search of her biological mother, wanting to see her at least once before returning to Spain.

A Spanish girl named Sneha, without any information about her background, has come to India to trace her roots. She was adopted by a Spanish couple, and Sneha has been living with them in Spain.

A daughter who came looking for her mother

Kalanguak Absalonsen was born in Greenland in 1971 and adopted a few years later by a Danish family without her mother's informed consent, cutting her off from her Inuit culture for more than 50 years.

Now she wants Denmark to compensate her for her wrongful adoption.

"My mother didn't know what it meant when she signed the paper, that she wouldn't be allowed to have any contact with me," the 53-year-old told AFP in her Copenhagen apartment.

In 1975, her mother was a young widow with five children, struggling to make ends meet in Greenland at a time when Denmark had a strategy of cultural assimilation for its former Arctic colony, today an autonomous territory.

Her mother's employer, a Dane, suggested she consider putting some of her offspring up for adoption.

FRANKFURT, Nov. 1 — Some lucky German orphan may get movie star Jane Russell as an adopted mama. 

The glamorous, curvaceous favorite of every wolf-howler from EUCOM to Korea suddenly dropped in from London at Frankfurt's Rhine-Main Airport today on a quick visit to see about adopting a child. 

Swathed in a full-length mink coat, Miss Russell stepped off a TWA plane an hour late and feeling more than a little air sick. 

But she quickly recovered tier vivacity over a sandwich and cup of coffee at the Frankfurt Casino and chatted with yours truly, who is now convinced that Jane is "as advertised." 

Calls Red Tape 'Dreadful' 

FRANKFURT, Nov. 1 — Some lucky German orphan may get movie star Jane Russell as an adopted mama. 

The glamorous, curvaceous favorite of every wolf-howler from EUCOM to Korea suddenly dropped in from London at Frankfurt's Rhine-Main Airport today on a quick visit to see about adopting a child. 

Swathed in a full-length mink coat, Miss Russell stepped off a TWA plane an hour late and feeling more than a little air sick. 

But she quickly recovered tier vivacity over a sandwich and cup of coffee at the Frankfurt Casino and chatted with yours truly, who is now convinced that Jane is "as advertised." 

Calls Red Tape 'Dreadful' 

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Vermont’s child welfare agency relied on baseless allegations about a pregnant woman’s mental health to secretly investigate her and win custody of her daughter before the baby was born, according to a lawsuit that alleges the state routinely targets and tracks pregnant women deemed unsuitable for parenthood.

The ACLU of Vermont and Pregnancy Justice, a national advocacy group, on Wednesday sued the Vermont Department for Children and Families, a counseling center and the hospital where the woman gave birth in February 2022. The lawsuit seeks both an end to what it calls an illegal surveillance program and unspecified monetary damages for the woman, who is identified only by her initials, A.V.

According to the complaint, the director of a homeless shelter where A.V. briefly stayed in January 2022 told the child welfare agency that she appeared to have untreated paranoia, dissociative behaviors and PTSD. The state opened an investigation and later spoke to the woman’s counselor, midwife and a hospital social worker, despite having no jurisdiction over fetuses and all without her knowledge.

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For most adoptees, being adopted is just one piece of a multifaceted identity—and like other identity markers such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or personality, it’s often necessary to navigate feelings of uncertainty, pride vs. shame, and questions about who one is and where they’re meant to be in the world. Adoption has unique influences on identity formation as a child grows up and may require that children confront loss and feelings of rejection; it may also present distinct challenges in adulthood, particularly when it comes time to discuss family history that might be unknown. Though being adopted has its challenges as children grow into adults, many adult adoptees report feeling stronger for having navigated them—and may even end up feeling more connected to their adoptive families, their birth families, their cultures, and their inner selves as a result.

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• Growing Up Adopted
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Growing Up Adopted

Nowadays, in the U.S. and other countries where formal adoption is common, most adoptive families start discussing adoption with their child from the moment they arrive home—thus, the “big reveal” in which a child suddenly finds out they’re adopted is less common than it once was (though not unheard of). Growing up knowing that one is adopted generally has beneficial effects on children’s mental health and sense of self. However, it also raises questions that the child will need to grapple with as they grow: What does it mean to be adopted? Does being placed for adoption mean that they were unwanted? Is it possible to truly fit in in one’s adopted world?