Student unions demand that children be handed over to the adopted parents

Hyderabad: Foster parents, who adopted nine of the 16 rescued children in May and are engaged in a legal battle to claim rights to meet their children at Sishu Vihar, have now decided to take on the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), which they blame for the turbulence they have been undergoing for the last six months.

Many of those foster parents met representatives of Telangana Samag Student Unions and other student unions on Wednesday. They had stood in their support seeking justice and getting back their children as per the directions of the High Court.

They met the media for the time. They included Karri Deavendra and his wife Durgabhavani; Dasari Anil Kumar and his wife Bezawads Sathitya; B. Santosh and his wife B. Jagdeshaari; and Sowala Mallesh and his wife Sawalla Sruthi, who all either belong to Telangana or Andhra Pradesh.

They took exception to not being given an opportunity to meet the children at Sishu Vihar, where they are presently put up.

Hyderabad: The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Medchal-Malkajgiri district in Telangana has declared 15 children who were rescued by police from a child-selling racket busted earlier this year as 'Legally Free for Adoption (LFA)'.

Official sources on Wednesday said the Committee decided the children to be LFA as per Section 38 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 as their biological parents could not be traced.

The High Court had on November 28 directed the CWC to pass an order in terms of Section 37 (orders regarding a child in need of care and protection) of the Act within two weeks from the date of receipt of the copy of its order.

Section 38 of the Act stipulates that the Committee, in case of an orphan and abandoned child, shall make all efforts to trace the parents or guardians of the child and on completion of such inquiry, if it is established that the child is either an orphan having no one to take care, or abandoned, the Committee shall declare the child legally free for adoption.

The court also gave directions to the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) to decide within four weeks on the applications filed by some of the "adoptive parents" seeking adoption of the children.

For a long time, it was thought that adoption from abroad was good for the intended parents and for the child, but from 2030 it will no longer be allowed. Theatre maker José Montoya (45), who was adopted from Colombia, never believed in the 'adoption fairy tale'. 'The idea that a child in a 'third world country' is worse off than here is racist.'

“Many adopted people hear their whole lives that they should just be grateful and not complain,” says theater maker and visual artist José Montoya (45). Adoption is a recurring theme in his theater work. In 2021, he made the performance To be of never been about his own adoption story. And last November, together with four other program makers with a history of adoption, he organized the cultural stage Ver Van Hier in Rotterdam, to let 'a different voice' be heard about intercountry adoption. “We debunk the adoption fairy tale.”

Intercountry adoption, abuses and prohibition

Since 1956, it has been possible to adopt a child from the Netherlands or Europe in the Netherlands. In 1974, it also became possible to adopt a child from outside Europe, which soon concerned the vast majority of adoptions. Between 1974 and 2023, more than 42,000 children were adopted from abroad, of whom 406 in the last five years ( CBS and FIOM ).

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Cambodia jails 13 pregnant Filipino surrogates

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia for intending to sell babies they carried through surrogacy.

They were sentenced to four years in prison, but with two years suspended, the Kandal Provincial Court said.

The court said it had strong evidence showing that the women intended on having the babies "to sell to a third person in exchange for money, which is an act of human trafficking".

The women are not expected to serve any jail time until giving birth, and the court did not say what will happen to the babies when they are born.

An orphan of the Decree, Monica Le Roy Dagen, returns home to find her parents. Foto: Lucian Muntean

Marion, born Mariuca

“When my son, Pierre, was born I wondered whether I should tell my biological mother. But I felt like I couldn’t allow her to call herself his grandmother. I didn’t want Pierre to be hers, too.”

Thus speaks Marion Le Roy Dagen, aged 40. Until the age of 6 her name was Mariuca.

Thousands of children came to Denmark from South Korea in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s in the belief that they were foundlings.

Eight adoptees have on Friday sent a claim to the Danish state for violation of Article 8 of the Human Rights Convention and are demanding compensation of 250,000 kroner per person - a total of 2 million kroner.

This is what lawyer at Pramming advokater Lisa Dalgas Christensen tells TV 2. She will lead the cases together with lawyer Mads Pramming.

"We demand compensation for violations of their human rights. This is a public recognition that the state has violated their rights," Lisa Dalgas Christensen explains to TV 2.

A Quebec woman, adopted in Romania in the 1990s under a false identity, laments that the government had been warned nine years ago by her country of origin of the irregularities in her file, but without ever notifying her.

"It's been nine years since I was told that I had the wrong identity. How many other adoptees are they hiding information from?" says Roxana Pamela Harrison, who hopes her story will force the Quebec government, which is responsible for adoptions, to be proactive.

The 33-year-old woman learned on her own a little over a year ago that she had been adopted in Romania under the identity of another child, without her adoptive parents knowing. It was when she found her biological family that she discovered that her name was "Adriana" and that she had been born in December 1990, rather than April 1991.

But when she went to Romania in January 2024 to try to get her adoption file, she was shocked to learn that her adoption had been cancelled outright. Worse still, the Quebec government had known about it since 2015.

Adoption cancelled