The only person who managed to get a full refund from the Isha Foundation is a Swede with roots in India. Jeya Balu had to fight hard to advertise a holy stone that cost her over SEK 60,000 and it required the help of a Muslim, a Christian, a Hindu and an atheist as well as a policeman to succeed. NewsVoice has interviewed Jeya.

It started in the 80s when Jeya Balu, who was born in India, searched for his biological roots. Jeya had moved to Sweden as an adopted child and DN reported with several full-page spreads about her journey back to her former homeland where she was reunited with her father and mother. There were two trips to India and several reports in Dagens Nyheter.

In the fall of 2014, it was time to find the spiritual roots and Jeya traveled alone to the spiritual organization Isha Foundation, which she had been following for some time online. She was fascinated by the spiritual leader's wisdom. He is called Sadhguru and he lives like a movie star in a self-built community near the city of Coimbatore in southern India.

Jeya Balu describes how she became enchanted by Sadhguru and his entourage of followers. She went so far as to order a sacred stone at a price that, with today's exchange rate (March 2015), corresponds to over SEK 60,000. When the shipping cost was added to the price, the final bill ended up being over SEK 90,000.

The "holy stone" of 165 kilos was to be initiated during a mass ceremony in a huge room filled with around 200 westerners, where most of them ordered the large holy 60,000 kroner stone. They had paid in cash or by bank card.

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EXCLUSIVE: Abandoned at six months old in an overflowing orphanage in war-torn Vietnam, Kim Catford was baby number 671.

But, to his South Australian parents who adopted him as a baby in 1974, he simply became part of the family.

Growing up in the small coastal town of Victor Harbor, and later in the Adelaide suburb of Banksia Park, Kim had what appeared to be, in many ways, a quintessentially Australian childhood.

He rode bikes, played footy and had three older sisters.

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Overheid pakt kinderen af van ouders en biedt hen ter adoptie aan, ook naar Nederland

De Chinese overheid heeft ouders gedwongen hun kinderen af te staan. Via adoptie belandden die elders, melden Chinese media.

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In een district in China zijn sinds 2001 ongeveer 80 kinderen door de lokale overheid van hun families weggenomen en in een tehuis gestopt. Van daaruit zijn ze naar het buitenland geadopteerd. Uit het betreffende tehuis zijn ook kinderen naar Nederland geadopteerd. Volgens de China Daily is een van de weggenomen kinderen daadwerkelijk in een Nederlands gezin terechtgekomen.

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Around a thousand foreign children under Adoption Services Foundation annually by Dutch parents included in their family. Many of these children have no parents or parents who no longer can sustain. They should live in the streets and have anything but rosy outlook. But there are other adopted children: children in their home or a mother and a father. While most of which are poor, but they can own their children.

Yet these children of their parents taken away - by the government or by child traffickers. Then the children are sold to orphanages for the drop by a couple from the West to be adopted. Network recently reported on this form of child trafficking and illegal practices revealed in children's homes in India and China. In this case about about the negative form - but also the positive forms - adoption.

Rond de duizend buitenlandse kinderen worden volgens Stichting Adoptievoorzieningen jaarlijks door Nederlandse ouders opgenomen in hun gezin. Veel van deze kinderen hebben geen ouders meer of ouders die niet meer voor ze kunnen zorgen. Ze moeten op straat leven en hebben alles behalve rooskleurige vooruitzichten. Maar er zijn ook andere adoptiekinderen: kinderen die in hun thuisland wel een moeder en een vader hebben. Die zijn weliswaar meestal arm, maar kunnen wel zelf voor hun kinderen zorgen.

Toch worden deze kinderen van hun ouders afgepakt - door de overheid of door kinderhandelaren. Vervolgens worden de kinderen doorverkocht aan kindertehuizen om in het vervolg door een stel uit het westen geadopteerd te kunnen worden. Netwerk berichtte de afgelopen tijd over deze vorm van kinderhandel en onthulde illegale praktijken in kindertehuizen in China en India. In dit dossier meer over over deze negatieve vormen – maar ook de positieve vormen – van adoptie.

By Minyvonne Burke

An ordained elder at a California megachurch was arrested along with her parents in connection with the death of her 11-year-old adopted daughter.

Leticia McCormack, 49, was arrested Monday on a charge of murder, three counts of torture and three counts of willful cruelty to a child in the death of Arabella McCormack, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said in a news release Tuesday.

Leticia McCormack's father, Stanley Tom, 75, was arrested on the same charges. Her mother, Adella Tom, 70, was charged only with torture and willful cruelty to a child.

Authorities began their investigation Aug. 30 after deputies were called to a home in Spring Valley for a report of a child in distress. Arabella was found at the home and rushed to the hospital, where she died.

This week, the Government approved a policy paper and legislative proposals on international surrogacy and the recognition of past surrogacy arrangements.

So, what has the interdepartmental group that created the document proposed in relation to the future of international surrogacy?

In order to regulate surrogacy in Ireland, amendments to the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill will be required at committee stage of the legislation.

The AHR bill was created to regulate procedures such as in-vitro fertilisation and technologies like embryo screening as well as domestic surrogacy.

This week's announcement means that early next year, international surrogacy will be inserted into the AHR bill at committee stage, when amendments to the existing legislation are thrashed out.

In May 2022, Minister Ernst Kuipers (Public Health) wrote to the House of Representatives that he wanted to make IVF surrogacy part of the basic insurance. But that wouldn't apply to everyone.

Ten patient organizations and interest groups are therefore calling on the minister to make IVF surrogacy part of the basic insurance for all family types.

IVF SURROGACY

In his proposal, Kuipers wrote that he wanted to adopt the advice of the National Health Care Institute on the reimbursement of IVF surrogacy. The Zorginstituut recommended expanding the basic package of the Health Insurance Act with IVF surrogacy 'in case the intended mother has a medical indication that means she cannot bear fruit herself, but does have her own eggs'.

The ten organizations, including the Royal Dutch Organization of Midwives (KNOV), Patient Federation Netherlands, COC Netherlands and the Transgender Network Netherlands, believe that this advice does not take into account 'the diversity of family forms in 2022', “because the reimbursement does not apply for everyone".

The adoptive parents of a 4-year-old boy have been charged with murder after he died from abuse injuries, authorities said.

A North Carolina couple have been charged with murder after their 4-year-old adopted son died from abuse, including an exorcism and being denied food, according to authorities.

Jodi Ann Wilson and Joseph Wilson were arrested earlier this month, and were indicted this week by a grand jury on murder charges, according to the Surry County Criminal Court Clerk's office. Both are being held without bail, online records show.

Paramedics were summoned on Jan. 5 after Joseph Wilson reported the boy had a seizure, authorities said. The child was transported to a local hospital, where he died four days later from abuse injuries, the sheriff's office said.

"The investigation revealed that Skyler Wilson passed away from injuries related to the abuse sustained by his parents, and his death is being investigated as a homicide," Surry County Sheriff Steve Hiatt said in a statement earlier this month.

How a family lives together varies by country and culture, but the standard family of husband, wife and children is no longer the norm. Living together with several partners, grandchildren, adopted or foster children, eight cats or three dogs: in this series, people talk about their family. Paula (34) is married and has three children. To friends, she is currently five months pregnant.

Her own family is complete with two daughters and a son. She has been happily married to Maykel for years and works as a PE teacher at a primary school. It couldn't be more like a house-tree-animal, yet the life of the young family took a special turn three years ago.

Paula offered a childhood friend of her husband to carry a baby for him and his husband. She is now five months pregnant with a baby who will grow up in another family.

She had three exemplary pregnancies and three fantastic home births. She didn't want a fourth child, but she liked being pregnant so much that she wanted to experience that again. She discussed this with her husband.

"We have never actively looked for a couple for whom we could do this, but we have seriously discussed surrogacy. When I heard that a childhood friend wanted a child with his husband, we took the plunge and approached them."

The Grand Criminal Court in Amman issued a life sentence with hard labor against a Jordanian man and his American wife for murder with severe torture.

The sentence was issued based on Articles 327/3 and 64 of the Jordanian Penal Code, after the couple was convicted for torturing their eight-year-old adopted child to death.

The child was put in a bathtub filled with extremely hot water and left there for hours.

The court proved that the convicted husband and wife wanted to "get rid of the four children and kill them," by beating and torture.

They reportedly hit them with wooden sticks and poured hot water on their bodies almost every day.