By Christian Williams
March 12, 1981 at 12:00 a.m. EST
Not all of the secrets of the universe can be gleaned from a one-hour luncheon chat with Jane Russell. No, that would require at least dinner, too.

However, in one hour you can learn that:

Advertising Playtex support brassieres for "full-figured gals" is very lucrative, and that is why she has been doing it since 1971.

Jane Russell is her real name. Movie fans, who since the beginning have pointed out that her in-fact name is really Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, have been snookered. What the actual birth certificate said was "Baby Russell."

She first met Howard Hughes when he kicked Howard Hawks off the set of "The Outlaws" in 1941 and took over directing himself. Were they romantically involved?

Nicklas accompanied his wife Linda for the first time to the orphanage in Pune from where she was adopted 30 years ago.

I feel I love them more and more,” says 46-year-old Nicklas Berg who held his adopted son Yogesh and daughter Trupti at Shreevatsa,an adoption centre run by the Society of Friends of Sassoon General Hospital (SOFOSH). Nicklas accompanied his wife Linda for the first time to the orphanage in Pune from where she was adopted 30 years ago. On Wednesday they,adopted two children (both siblings).

Linda was known as Megha when she was brought here way back in the 70s. Born in 1975,Megha was adopted when she was a year old by Tommy and Eva Rosvall from Sweden,says Dipika Maharaj Singh,vice-chairperson of SOFOSH. This is the 10th such case where a child from Shreevatsa who has been adopted has returned to the home to adopt other kids. “Perhaps this is their way of remembering their roots and the fact that they had spent time at their first home,” says Madhuri Abhyankar,director of SOFOSH.

There were a total of 85 adoptions in 2011,of which five children were adopted by couples from abroad,24 by Non-Resident Indians and 56 by locals in the country. Among the Indian adoptions,29 girls were adopted vis-a-vis 27 boys while four girls were adopted by couples from abroad,says Sangeeta Pawar,adoption coordinator at the centre.

It may have taken more than 30 years for Linda to visit the orphanage where she was kept for a year before being adopted by the Swedish couple,but she says,“It just felt so natural and easy to come here and adopt our children”. Linda works as a purchase assistant at a private firm in Malmo,Sweden. “I met Nicklas 12 years ago. We lived as a couple for nine years before tying the knot three years ago,” she said.

Abstract

In 2018, the Ethiopian government banned intercountry adoptions due to detected irregularities. This paper draws from the experiences of Spanish adoptive families, providing evidence of these irregularities and other abuses substantiated by adoptive families during their “search for origins” or reconnection with their children’s birth families. We argue that these searches and contacts within the adoptive triad represent informal reparative initiatives among Spanish adoptive families.

Irregular adoptions in the
Ethiopian-Spanish context:
Strategies to redress the
adoption triad

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It must not be possible for Dutch citizens to adopt children from abroad. This is announced by a Dutch minister, writes Reuters.

Dutch adoption procedures have come under scrutiny after a growing number of adult adoptees began investigating their roots. Here, several people discovered that their birth documents had been falsified or that their adoption had been illegal.

Dutch parents have adopted around 40,000 children from many different countries in the past 50 years.

In Denmark, it is currently not possible to adopt foreign children, after Danish International Adoption (DIA), which as the only organization in Denmark mediates international adoptions, stopped that work in January .

Police are examining hundreds of cases of foreigners claiming to be the fathers of babies born into poverty

At least three British couples are among scores of would-be parents who are under investigation for allegedly buying babies from Romania.

Foreign men from across Europe are believed to be exploiting a loophole in the law and falsely claiming paternity of Romanian children, and with it the right to take the babies out of the country, circumventing a ban on international adoptions.

The ban was passed in 2001 under pressure from the European Union and is now rigorously enforced. Families who accept money or other goods for their child face up to seven years in jail.

But Romania's prime minister, Adrian Nastase, said that police were investigating dozens of cases involving "parents" from Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Greece, in addition to Britain. Other men claiming paternity have come forward from Turkey, Hungary and even Iran.

The newly appointed special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse brings an unshowy sense of determination to her mission

Patricia Carey was born in a mother and baby home, and then adopted, but it was not something she talked about when she became chief executive of the Adoption Authority of Ireland more than four decades later.

“I made a conscious decision when I worked for the adoption authority not to discuss my own personal origins,” she says. “I didn’t want it to colour my professionalism.”

But when taking up the new role of special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse in March this year, Carey felt it was important to share that she had been born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, Co Cork, in 1971. She believes it gives her “a little bit of an edge” in understanding this particular part of Ireland’s dark, yet very recent, social history.

These states banned abortion. Now they’re pushing adoption as an empowering choice for pregnant women.

The mothers of ModernAdoptionPlans.org have a message for women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant: You, too, can turn this difficult time into a rewarding experience by relinquishing your baby for adoption.

In glossy videos, they tell their stories. They found themselves in crisis. Many considered abortions before deciding on adoption. It was a painful choice, but it was the right choice.

“This is one of the greatest things a parent could ever do,” says Adrianne, a Black birth mother, from a sun-filled loft. Sarah, a white birth mother, speaks to us from what looks like a church. “I didn’t choose what was best for me. I chose what was best for him,” she says.

Billboards, radio ads, and TV commercials across Texas urge residents to visit the website. In addition to the videos, Modern Adoption produced a resource guide where readers can find adoption agencies and crisis pregnancy centers, which are known to spread misinformation and push adoption. But nowhere does the site mention that the campaign is part of the multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded state program to dissuade women from having abortions.

Stichting Wereldkinderen has read the news about the latest developments regarding intercountry adoption. On Tuesday 21 May at 18:00 we received the documents that were shared with the First and Second Chamber from the Ministry of Justice and Security. In these documents, Minister Weerwind indicates that it is not possible to not implement the motion of 16 April or to implement it only to a limited extent. In contrast to the position that Minister Weerwind defended during the debate on 3 April, he has now decided to come up with a phase-out plan for intercountry adoption in the Netherlands in September. The minister indicates that intercountry adoption procedures that have already started will continue for the time being.

The minister has asked FIOM not to process any new registrations for intercountry adoption. Quote from the minister: ''The already planned information meeting will go ahead, but I have asked FIOM to explicitly state that it must be taken into account that a possible adoption procedure cannot be continued as a result of the phasing-out plan.'' In the phasing-out plan, the minister wants to keep the term limited. According to the minister, a change in the law is needed to facilitate the phasing-out. The country selection, as previously carried out, remains in force during this phasing-out. Since there is no longer a need for a central mediation organisation, the procedure for establishing IAN has been stopped.

In the interest of the child, the Wereldkinderen foundation believes that as long as there is a real need for intercountry adoption in the countries of origin, it should be possible for prospective adoptive parents in the Netherlands to give a child a loving home. We are convinced that this need still exists in the countries of origin. We know that there are parents who want to give children a loving home. We therefore find it very sad that the government no longer supports this international child welfare measure. 

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre and other authorities concerned, including the Regional Passport Office (RPO), after a four-year-old girl filed a petition because her adoptive Australian parents were unable to apply for her passport.

According to the submissions made by the petitioner's advocate in the HC, the child was adopted by her father's sister, an Australian citizen, two years ago. The adoption took place by way of a registered adoption deed. When the adoptive parents began the process of taking the child to Australia, things hit a roadblock.

The agency responsible for adoption immigration informed the adoptive parents that many cases of migration through adoption under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act were under the Australian govt's scrutiny. Once the agency receives clearance from the Australian govt, the process for taking the adopted child to Australia will proceed further. Until then, the child could be taken to Australia through any other valid immigration process, but not through adoption.

The counsel for the petitioner submitted that the adoptive parents then initiated the process of getting the child's passport in India, as she is an Indian citizen. However, this too was not possible because the adoptive parents cannot file an application online. This is because the adoptive parents, being Australian citizens, must supply a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) confirming that the adoption is valid. The adoptive parents have applied to CARA, but the agency has not issued an NOC, stating that it was waiting for confirmation from the Australian authorities on this subject, the petitioner's advocate submitted in the court.

The petitioner's lawyer further argued that even if the child does not travel to Australia on the strength of her adoption by Australian citizens, it is her right to have an Indian passport so that a different process for travel could be resorted to.