A BENTHAM woman who was forced by her parents to give her newborn baby boy up for adoption, has found him 66 years later, happy and well and living in Australia.

Issy Carr, 86, of Lowther Hill Farm, said her tale was one of heartache which has turned into a miracle thanks to her niece Angela Bowskill and relative Janet Staveley.

Issy said she was only 20 and very naive when she found out she was pregnant, but her parents, Margaret and Roy Staveley forced her to give the baby away.

“I had him at Homesteads Nursing Home, in Melling, on June 13, 1955. I loved him straight away and called him George, but Nurse Eccles, a lovely nurse, said she had been told I was not to see or hold him. He was rushed away and I never saw him again.

“My mother told me I would soon forget about him but I never did and tried many times to find out where he had gone but failed. I never forgave my parents, whatever their reason was,” she said.

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has argued in an appeal against a landmark court ruling that she does not have a duty of care to protect Australian children from climate harm caused by the potential expansion of a coal mine.

The minister’s appeal also says the primary judge, Justice Mordecai Bromberg, erred in his findings about global temperature rise. During the Federal Court case, the scientific evidence on temperature rise was not contested by the government.

A partially successful class action was brought by eight Australian teenagers against the Environment Minister to challenge a proposal by Whitehaven Coal to extend its Vickery coal mine, near Boggabri in NSW.

The teenagers argued the mine expansion would endanger their future because climate hazards would cause them injury, ill health and economic losses, and in his judgment Justice Bromberg agreed. He said 1 million Australian children would be hospitalised at least once in their life for heat stress and the Great Barrier Reef would die along with the east coast’s eucalyptus forests should climate change not be halted.

While the court dismissed the teenagers’ application in May to prevent the minister approving the coal mine extension, it found Ms Ley owed a duty of care to Australia’s young people.

SOS Children’s Villages has announced rapid improvements in safeguarding and governance measures following its International Senate meeting of 29 April 2021.

SOS Children’s Villages confirms with great regret cases of failings and is immediately introducing new measures to support victims, prevent further harm, and improve existing systems, to consistently ensure quality care for all children in its programmes.

SOS Children’s Villages has informed donors and governments that its highest supervisory body, the International Senate, has instructed that an independent Special Commission be established to address past and contemporary cases of failings, including child abuse, corruption, misuse of funds, and breaches of regulations that protect children’s and employees’ human rights.

The independent Special Commission will investigate why the failures occurred, while in other instances the organisation’s policies and processes were appropriately followed through. It will be established during May 2021 under the leadership of an external and experienced chair.

In addition, the International Senate also mandated the rapid creation of a global child safeguarding ombudsperson system to support victims/survivors and anybody seeking resolution of concerns.

Sumanta Kar believes that youth need to be enabled towards self-reliance as responsible citizens and contributing members of society.

In any society, it is the families that afford children a loving home. When raised in a caring family, the children are more likely to enjoy the cherishable facets of life: health, education, relations, identity, self-actualization, and initiative. Families are important for the children’s holistic development.

We believe that childcare must be at the heart of any development endeavor. Millions of children worldwide, including in India continue to be left behind and their rights denied. They suffer the impacts of poverty, violence, inequality, and exclusion disproportionately, due to their sensitive phase of life and development.

Healthy and happy childhood, quality education, and psycho-social well-being are foundational not only for holistic development but also to a child’s capacity to contribute meaningfully to society. Only well brought up, responsible and self-reliant adults can propel sustainable development by breaking down the circle of poverty and exclusion in the forthcoming generations.

Different circumstances call for different care options for children in need. We provide a range of alternative care solutions customized for every such child – provision of loving homes in children’s villages, strengthening vulnerable families, facilitating quality upbringing in non-biological families, protecting children during emergencies, and supporting the youth on their path to independence.

NEW DELHI: SOS Children’s Villages of India (SOSCVI), the country’s largest child care NGO dedicated to the welfare of the children who have lost or are at the risk of losing parental care, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Meghalaya to design and implement a five-year programme for providing individual foster care to 50 children without parental care.

Individual Foster Care is a form of family-based care wherein children are raised in families other than their biological families. As the implementing agency and technical partner, SOSCVI will assist the Government of Meghalaya in supporting the children and their caregivers in and around Ribhoi and East Khasi Hills districts, the regions identified for this pilot project. The children will be placed in unrelated but suitable families in the community initially for a short period, which could be periodically extended till the child attains 18 years of age.

The MoU was signed by the Secretary General, Sumanta Kar, SOS Children’s Villages of India, and D.D. Shira, M.C.S., Director of Social Welfare, Meghalaya, Shillong.

Commenting about the MoU with the Meghalaya Government, Sumanta Kar, Secretary General, SOSCVI, said, “It is a great honor and privilege to associate with the Government of Meghalaya on this individual foster care project. We have decades of experience in extending care to children lost parental care under the Group Foster Care model in our Children’s Villages, as well as other models of alternative care for every child in need. We already have a strong presence in the state. The SOS Children’s Village Shillong that was established in the year 1999 is sheltering 127 children in 12 family homes. Additionally, over 500 children are under our direct care through the community based Family Strengthening Programme. We are also supporting 22 children through 15 families through the Kinship Care Programme. The knowledge and competency that we acquired over half a century will help us take this project to its fruitful completion. Children require different care solutions based on their need and this project is an attempt towards that.”

He added that SOSCVI will be focusing on empowering the care providers with necessary skills, including parenting, social, emotional, child safeguarding and communication skills, to bring a rights-based approach to their caring practices for ensuring holistic development of the children. Every family/child will have a dedicated mentor/coach within 3 months of enrolment. The technical experts and field workers of the NGO will also train the children and facilitate their holistic development by organizing various activities, besides supporting the children in their career plan and higher education. The NGO will arrange for house visits by its staff every quarter to monitor and record the progress of children and their family. It will assess the overall effectiveness of the programme once every 6 months and make course corrections where needed.

There are many abuses around foreign adoption. A look at history reveals how things could go so wrong. A National Center of Expertise can prevent many problems in the future.

The adopted Dilani Butink last year took the Dutch State to court over her adoption from Sri Lanka. According to her, the Dutch government has done too little to prevent adoption fraud. (image anp / Phil Nijhuis)

In February of this year, the Intercountry Adoption Investigation Committee led by Tjibbe Joustra published a report on abuses surrounding adoption. The report contains striking recommendations: The government must recognize that it has failed to combat adoption abuses and must temporarily suspend intercountry adoption. Only the procedures that have already started may be completed. According to the committee, intercountry adoption is very susceptible to fraud, both because of the system of private intermediaries and because of the often naive trust in foreign intermediaries. We have known for a long time what incorrect practices are involved: inaccurate background and age data of the adopted child, biological parents who did not know that their child is going abroad, so-called twins who are not twins, child trafficking, and more. Now that many adoptees have reached adulthood, complaints about the manner of departure from their homeland are coming from them. The committee was set up because of these complaints.

In addition to the critical recommendations, the Joustra Commission came up with an important positive proposal. She advocates the establishment of a National Center of Expertise. This center must ensure that knowledge in the field of identity questions, searches of adoptees and aftercare for the entire adoptive family is bundled in one large organization. This will help adoptees in their search for their files, their birth family and in finding the right psychosocial help.

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Guam could benefit from the streamlining the adoption process here, especially foster children who need homes and people who want to bring these children into their homes and families.

Department of Youth Affairs Director Melanie Brennan, who currently has oversight of Child protective Services, has said just a few foster children go up for adoption. There are 432 children in different types of foster care placement, most with relatives.

Bill 108 and Bill 109, introduced by Sen. Mary Torres, would involve independent adoption agencies in the Bureau of Social Services Administration's process for finding children homes. The aim is “easing the burden of Guam’s already-strained foster care system."

Adoptive parents holding the feet of their baby.

Bill 108 would allow adoption agencies to help in the screening and placement of children available for adoption. Bill 109 would give adoption agencies involvement in the placement of newborns given up through the Newborn Infant Safe Haven Act.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Kyung-joon = 'Single Mom Attorney' National Power Rep. Kim Mi-ae, on the 30th , appealed with tears for a re-examination in relation to the government's reform of the public adoption system.

Rep. Kim said at a press conference at the National Assembly on the same day, "The government is trying to reorganize the work that private adoption agencies have been doing for over 70 years without securing professional manpower , like flipping the palm of their hand."

The reform of the public adoption system, criticized by Rep. Kim, will come into effect from today. The reform plan aims to change the body of the adoption process from the existing adoption agency to the local government.

Counseling with birth parents, including pregnant unwed mothers, and children is carried out by the child protection agent, a private professional of the local government, and the children eligible for adoption are decided by the case decision committee of the local government.

Rep. Kim said, "The problem is that not all local government case decision committees are formed." He said, "It is said that public organizations decide on children to be adopted and protected, but the government does not consider the current situation of local governments and only gives orders unilaterally." pointed out

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Over 60 million children have lost one or both parents throughout the world due to different causes. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is adding significantly to this number.

What was supposed to be a two-year moratorium in 2001 has turned into an indefinite ban on the adoption of Romanian children by foreigners, denying many the chance of a better future.

Mandi Rodger, a US social worker, was volunteering with orphaned and abandoned children in Romania when she met a small child with Down syndrome who lived in a Bucharest orphanage with around 40 other children.

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