Today it could take only a few months before Italian adoptive families willing to adopt internationally can bring Cambodian children home

A lady took Jane to Kammpong Thom Orphanage by car when she was just a few days old. No, someone found Jane abandoned between two factories near the Monivong Bridge in Phnom Penh. Not yet, her mother died a few hours after her birth and no one came to claim her at the hospital.

These are the three stories that a Dutch adoptive mother, Meta Meulenbelt-Hörz, heard about the discovery of her adopted daughter Jane, a fictional name. No one knows which of these stories is the true one.

“They knew there was something left unsaid about our daughter's story, but we never managed to find out the truth,” said Ms. Meta Meulenbelt-Hörz.

Jane is now 21 years old and lives in the Netherlands with her adoptive parents and her Chinese adoptive brother. And she is just one of thousands of Cambodian children who, between 1980 and 2010, were given up for international adoption.

- We can no longer rule out that illegal adoption to Norway has been very extensive, says Minister for Children and Families Kjersti Toppe after VG's revelations about South Korea.

Yesterday VG was able to reveal systematic cheating in adoption papers from South Korea:

Children were listed as orphans in the adoption papers that got them to Norway - despite the fact that their mothers were alive and known to the adoption agency.

This is shown by reports after inspection trips that VG has been given access to. Thus, adoptions could take place without the consent of the biological parents.

On Saturday, seven adoptees from South Korea shared their stories in VG.

SURAT: A girl abandoned by her biological parents got a new lease of life when a childless couple from the city adopted her when she was three months old.

But the girl, who is now nearing 14 and studying in Class 9, became a victim of sexual abuse with the perpetrators being her adoptive father, his younger brother, and his three nephews. The ordeal of the teenager, which began in 2021, was exposed by her adoptive mother who witnessed her husband abusing her on Friday.

She rescued the girl and wnet to Adajan police station to lodge a complaint against her 46-year-old husband, his younger brother (41), his elder brother's son (24), younger brother's son (22), and sister-in-law's 16-year-old son.

Police arrested four people including adoptive father and his brother and two nephews.

It all began in 2021, when the accused took her to the first floor of their house and raped her. She was subjected to sexual abuse multiple times by the five accused. The survivor told police that she did not complain earlier as her father and others threatened to kill her or thrash her.

Penny Mackieson bonded for two decades with a woman she was told put her up for adoption

Penny Mackieson finally has the name that feels right to her, nearly 60 years after she was inadvertently swapped with another baby when the infants were placed for adoption.

After mustering the courage to contact the person that records indicated was her biological mother, the Melbourne woman spent two decades getting to know and love the woman and her family.

But gnawing doubts, spurred by the fact she resembled no one in the family, led her and her believed-to-be mother to take DNA tests, which revealed they were not related.

Adoption Information Services then connected with an elderly Greek woman – Mackieson’s real biological mother.

Court Overturns Civil Court’s Order To Dispossess Son From Disputed Property; Says Can’t Create Third-Party Rights For Now

A legal battle over a property in Navrangpura has reached the Gujarat High Court, as an adopted son fights his step maternal uncle over right to inherit the estate. The high court has set aside an order issued by the civil court to dispossess the son from the property, bringing the case back into focus.

In this case, one Jayaben and her husband Ratilal had adopted Nishith as the couple had no children of their own. After Ratilal’s passing in 2017 and Jayaben’s death in 2020, a dispute arose over a Will drawn by Jayaben. It bequeathed her inherited properties to a religious trust. Among these properties is a flat in Navrangpura, where Nishith stays with his family.

Jayaben’s brother, Kanti Bhai, insisted that Nishith vacate the flat in accordance with the Will’s stipulations. However, Nishith refused, asserting that as the couple’s legally adopted son, he held a rightful claim to the property. Kanti Bhai’s efforts to lodge a complaint against his step nephew in the lower court were unsuccessful.

Kanti Bhai then turned to the civil court to seek execution of the Will, which ordered Nishith to vacate the flat or pay monthly rent of Rs 25,000 to his step maternal uncle. In respon-se, Nishith appealed to the Gujarat High Court, providing his marriage invitation card and government documents as evidence of his legal adoption and right to the property.

My name is Kira Pumali Pedersen. I am a 33-year-old educational anthropologist who is engaged to Martin. Together we have two children, Rose and Falke, and live in a small terraced house with lots of projects. I was adopted from Sri Lanka and came to Denmark when I was 10 weeks old.

In 2019, I became a mother for the first time to Rose. She arrived seven weeks early and my path into parenthood was very tumultuous. After a year, I started with a fantastic psychologist at the Gaia Institute, who asked me to consider going to a hotel for at least 24 hours. I didn't have to think about that for long and after a day alone, I came home with courage and passion.

It had taken me a long time to accept that I was struggling with parenting and had come down with a postpartum reaction. Convinced that I couldn't be the only one having a hard time, I therefore created the Instagram account "Parent Reactions".

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Since then a lot has happened and I now share about most aspects of my and my family's life. It wasn't long before I discovered that I can't separate my experience of parenthood with adoption, Rose's life as a preemie, mental health, and yes, everything else.

International adoption

What is a Dutch intercountry adoption?

When a child born abroad, without Dutch nationality, is brought to the Netherlands for adoption, we call this a Dutch intercountry adoption. The Netherlands is the receiving country, the other country the country of origin or the sending country. Adoption literally means adopting a child. The child is given a new identity, including a new family, (surname) name and nationality.

How is intercountry adoption arranged in the Netherlands?

The most important rules that apply to Dutch prospective adoptive parents who want to adopt a child are contained in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Hague Adoption Convention and the (Dutch) Adoption of Foreign Children Act (Wobka) of 1998.

Police officers and employees of the youth welfare office in Bremerhaven are currently being insulted worldwide, especially by Muslims, and some are even threatened. The reason is an oppressive video that has already been viewed millions of times. The backgrounds.

The video is short but hard to bear. It shows disturbing scenes of a court-ordered taking into care of two boys from an obviously Muslim family in Bremerhaven by employees of the youth welfare office with the support of the police.

It has been circulating on the Internet since April 27 – on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Telegram. The tweet by an Indonesian journalist with the video alone had been viewed 18.3 million times by May 2nd.

Nordsee-Zeitung.de evaluated the video, followed its path through the internet and viewed the reactions. Here is an overview - based on facts, without judgement.

What the video shows

Adoption has been a common theme in Ireland for the last 100 years and until recently was administered predominantly by institutions associated with the Catholic Church. Adoption was particularly common in Ireland due to the perceived guilt and shame of having a child out of wedlock. Thousands of children were admitted to the care of adoption institutions who failed to adopt proper procedures for the registration of adoptions.

Investigations carried out by Barnardo’s children’s charity have found that there may be up to 15,000 illegal adoptions throughout Ireland where adoptive parents were registered as birth parents.

The organisation Adoptions Rights Allowance have also found that at least 182 institutions or individuals across Ireland have been involved in illegal adoption practices.

One such institution that has come under intense scrutiny is the now defunct St Patrick’s Guild who have been found to be responsible for the incorrect registration of 126 adoptions. This led to TUSLA, Ireland’s child protection agency, contacting the affected individuals in 2018 to inform them of this practice of illegal adoption.

What Legal Action can be Taken?

Under the Maternity Benefit Act, there is no provision for maternity leave for a mother who is adopting an abandoned, orphaned, or foster child who is older than three months.

By Kanu Sarda: For Karnataka-based Hamsaanandini Nanduri, an adoptive mother since 2017, bringing up her two young children was an uphill task because of the discriminatory provisions under the Maternity Benefit Act.

When Hamsaanandini went for adoption through the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), she was given the option of adopting two children who were siblings and CARA did not want them to be separated. She readily agreed to adopt the four-and-half-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother.