SERA REPORT July 1999

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TUININGA MARLENE - Publié le 28 mai 1992 - La Vie n°2439

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LA PETITE SŒUR DES PAUVRES

Invitée de Jean-Marie Cavada ce Caire parlera avec les autres invités soir, sœur Emmanuelle, alias Madeleine Quincin, quatre-vingt-trois ans, dont soixante et un de vie religieuse à la congrégation Notre-Dame-de-Sion et vingt et un ans passés dans une cabane de bidonville parmi les chiffonniers, les éboueurs du Caire. Avec une obsession qui la tenaille depuis qu'elle est enfant: le sort de l'enfance malheureuse dans le monde.

A la veille de prendre sa retraite— ce qui veut dire pour cette intrépide religieuse se retrouver définitivement dans sa cabane misérable — sœur Emmanuelle paraît, en public, une dernière fois. Invitée d'honneur de La marche du siècle sur le thème: La douleur partagée, le bénévolat au service des enfants, la grande dame du de la situation des enfants, particulièrement en Egypte et en Roumanie. Sont invités à cette émission: Marie-France Botte, coordinatrice pour Médecins sans frontières d'un programme d'aide aux enfants prostitués en Thaïlande, Valdenia Aparacida Paulino, créatrice d'une maison d'accueil pour jeunes filles en difficulté à Sao Paolo, au Brésil et François de Combret, créateur de l'association Solidarité enfants roumains abandonnés. Grâce au franc-parler redoutable de sœur Emmanuelle, à sa connaissance du terrain et, surtout, en raison de sa foi à soulever des montagnes et à transformer les cœurs les plus endurcis, la soirée à de fortes chances d'être revigorante.

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.