The Bombay High Court has lashed out at the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Maharashtra for putting up a child for adoption while the child's father was seeking his custody. The high court bench directed the CWC to get its act right in 48 hours, or else the court would pass an order.

"Tell us, if the mother has abandoned the child, then the biological father has no right? We don't understand how CWC is conducting its cases. This is nothing but high handedness by the CWC. Are they above the law?" the bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Gauri Godse said on Wednesday.

The bench was hearing the petition of a man who had run away with a 16-year-old minor girl and the two had a child. The girl's family registered a case against the man under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and he was arrested.

However, when the girl turned major, she abandoned the child and got married to someone else. The man came out on bail and sought that he be given custody of his child. However, the CWC rejected his application and put up the child for adoption.

Advocate Ashish Dubey, appearing for the petitioner, pointed out that the child was neither abandoned nor orphaned and so the CWC could not have put up the child for adoption. "Adoption will come into the picture only when both parents have abandoned the child...Why do you want to give the child for Adoption? Will the child go to the biological parent or a third party?" Justice Dere asked.

There are three crore orphaned children in India, but only 3,500 to 4,000 children are available for adoption in a year and some 30,000 prospective parents have to wait for three years to bring home a child.

Taking note of this discrepancy, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud observed recently: "Why are they (Central Adoption Resource Authority) stalling adoptions? Why is CARA not doing it? Hundreds of children are awaiting adoption in the hope of a better life." The remarks were made when the Supreme Court was hearing two petitions flagging gaps that were delaying adoptions and making the entire process a sham. The practical difficulties of adoption were also highlighted in the court, with one of the judges bringing out the humane and human aspect and cost to the society.

CARA, a statutory body of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, functions as the central body for adoption of Indian children and is mandated to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions. CARA primarily deals with the adoption of "orphan, abandoned and surrendered" children through its associated and recognised adoption agencies.

Due to red tape and lack of transparency, several thousand children are being deprived of home and the love of parents. With each month's delay, the children grow and age, and their chances of adoptability and adaptability diminishes. The prospective parents, too, lose their precious years doing cumbersome and complicated paperwork. Their financial condition suffers as they scout and wait their turn and are made to visit different adoption centres in the country.

The conditions of the shelter homes where these children are placed are also not hygienic, with funds and staff both short.

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Members and local chapters

The adoption center gathers around 3,000 member families.

As a member, you get a branch affiliation to one of our local associations, depending on where in the country you live. We have 7 local departments which are divided into geographical areas of operation and a central department which is for members living outside Sweden, among other things.

The departments operate independently with their own boards.

MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala. —

While the holidays can be a joyous time for families, it can be difficult for those struggling with infertility. If that's you, a Mountain Brook couple wants to offer up hope.

Rodney and Mary Leah Miller will be celebrating their first Thanksgiving since adopting twins. But this is no typical adoption because Mary Leah actually gave birth to the babies.
And now they want everyone to understand how embryo adoption works.

Dad, Rodney said, “They're just so fun. They just bring so much joy to our household, to our family.”

The Millers appreciate every giggle, every tear and every dirty diaper. After 10 years of struggling with infertility, they are now a family of four. Over the years, they tried every imaginable treatment, but nothing worked. Then, they heard about embryo adoption.

“That was the first time in a long time we had hope that this was going to work out, that we were not only going to have a family and children, but Mary Leah would be able to experience a pregnancy like we were both very excited about that,” Rodney Miller said.

TVR Cultural brought them, on November 25, Mihaela Olaru's dialogue with lawyer Elena Bustea, arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration attached to the Court of Commerce and Industry of Romania, recorded in the "Portrait of Excellence" show.

"She is an emblematic personality of the Romanian lawyer, a landmark of our times, a lawyer with grace and an oratorical talent that you rarely meet, she is the president of the "Association Centrul Avocatilor Mediatorii", a member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee of the International Union of Lawyers for Romania Paris 1927, insolvency practitioner, arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania, evaluator and vice-president of the National Union of Mediators from Romania, honorary consul of the Republic of Ecuador in Romania – the story behind a lawyer aristocrat ", is the presentation that Mihaela Olaru, host of the show "Portret de excellence", gives to her guest, lawyer Elena Bustea.

Bustea told Mihaela Olaru that " the profession gave me the greatest satisfaction in life ." I am blessed because God gave me this chance to be able to enter this profession and to be able to do it with this passion that I have shared all my life. And now, after so many years, when I'm in the gym and have to plead, I have the same emotions as at the beginning. (...) After 1989, we lawyers had to reinvent ourselves. A great professional satisfaction was when the opposing party, who had lost the case in front of me, asked me after a few years to represent them in another case".

At the same time, the lawyer Elena Bustea told, in "Portrait of excellence", also about the history of her family and about the hardships she went through under the communist regime.

" I come from an Aromanian family that comes from the Pindus mountains. I proudly say that these mountains are in my DNA. My family was persecuted, had to leave northern Greece and settled in Durostor county, in Quadrilater. When the population exchange took place, my family had to leave again and settled in Bucharest.

Abstract

Approximately 3600 Korean children have been adopted to Australia, as of 2023. Existing studies have tended to approach transnational or intercountry adoption from child development, social welfare, or identity perspectives. Research on Korean adoption to Australia is relatively scarce. The current article approaches the population from a migration perspective, building on Richard Weil’s conceptualization of transnational adoption as “quiet migration.” Drawing on both Korean-language data from South Korean governments and Australian data, the authors analyse Korean adoption to Australia as a state-sanctioned transnational migratory mechanism that facilitated the orderly movement of children from so-called “deficient” families of predominantly single mothers in South Korea to adoptive families in Australia. Situating adoption practices within the socio-political contexts and larger migration trends of both countries, the authors identify multiple enabling factors for channelling the ‘quiet’ flow of Korean children for adoption and argue the very ‘quietness’ of the adoption system is a source of concern despite Australia’s relatively stringent regulations. A migration perspective and analysis of these enabling factors contributes to the conceptualization of adoption as a socio-political state-sanctioned phenomenon, rather than a solely private family affair.

Keywords:transnational adoption; intercountry adoption; Korea; Australia; quiet migration; orderly migration

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Paralakhemundi-A great initiative by childline where various destitute children adoption to bring them mainstreaming done since last 3 years. Those children are orphans & neglected. So to take up their care & management district administration made awareness.

So such initiatives which attracted outreach couple to take up as their parenthoods a great gesture. As chief guest Collector Smrutiranjan Pradhan lauded those parents for such philanthropic gestures. Through video call with those parents also contacted who adopted those kids about those children welfare.

The UP couple who recently received such child honored 49th child from Nisaan Salem Adoption Care Centre also honored by Collector for their great gestures.The couple has a daughter & they adopted a son from Gajapati district.So they felt happy. Philanthropic initiatives for restoration of destitute children by giving blood named Debashis Patnaik & Prasant Kumar Paspureddy honored in this occasion.

A Toll free number announced by Collector as 9668889828 for more information. Among others Chief Development Officer cum Executive Officer of Zilla Parishad Dr. Gunanidhi Nayak, ADM (Revenue) Birendra Kumar Das were present.

The children of British women who joined the ISIS terror group are being returned to the UK and put up for adoption, it has emerged.

At least ten children are said to have been repatriated from detention camps in Syria. Those that have been repatriated are understood to be mainly orphans of unaccompanied minors.

Among them were two siblings whose British mother is believed to have been killed in northeastern Syria in 2019. Their father, who is not British, is understood to have been captured and is currently in a detention camp for foreign fighters, The Sunday Times reports. 

The Syria-born siblings were repatriated last year and are said to be living with foster carers in south-east England and are set to be adopted, despite one set of grandparents that do not live in the UK being willing to care for them. 

Campaigners say that this offer was rejected by the local authority that is responsible for the children in Britain.

23-year-old Patrik Dam was addicted to taking hard drugs and engaging in extreme sex. Now he is warning others.

WARNING: This article contains violent depictions of drug abuse, sex and abuse.

He had the crack pipe in one hand while the other swiped desperately on the phone. For days he had been looking for the next man he could sell himself to and thus get another fix.

It was in those days that 2.5 years of violent abuse of so-called 'chemsex' – i.e. sex on hard drugs – culminated for the then 22-year-old Patrik Dam.

When TV 2 Echo meets him a year later, he finds it difficult to remember the details and what happened on which day, but when you sit across from him, there is no doubt that the period stands as a living nightmare in his memory.

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The Ghent court convicted a Bulgarian woman on Monday for inhumane treatment of her child. She sold her baby for 5,000 euros to a couple from Ghent. The prospective parents were prosecuted by the public prosecutor's office, but were acquitted because they were misled.

“The court mainly wants to send a social signal with the ruling. Not only towards the Bulgarian woman, but also towards anyone who would want to profit from the birth of a biological child by trading it for profit," the verdict said.

The Ghent court sentenced the woman in absentia on Monday to ten months' suspended prison sentence. The woman sold her child to a couple for 5,000 euros. The court ruled that she treated her child as a commodity and should be punished for that.

The facts date from 2020. The Turkish couple from Ghent had wanted to have children for a long time, but due to a medical problem with the woman, they were unable to become pregnant. Through Bulgarian acquaintances in Belgium they came into contact with the woman, who was six months pregnant at the time.