Child Focus, the Foundation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, is launching the "Everyone a Max" campaign. The organization wants children to choose an adult who they trust 100 percent - a Max - whom they can turn to with all their problems. In this way it can be prevented that children run away or develop psychological problems, for example.

Child Focus is confronted with an average of 3 new disappearances of minors every day, 80 percent of which are runaways. There were also 300 cases of child sexual exploitation last year, both online and in the real world.

The organization is convinced that if children could go to an adult to talk about things that are not going well - for example in the home situation - the step to run away could be avoided.

Children often stand alone

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The poet explains how researching her history led her to tell the story from three perspectives: the birth mother, the adoptive mother and the daughter

In one way, I’d been writing the poems in The Adoption Papers for my whole life. I’d been making up an imaginary birth mother and father with my adoptive mother for years, since I was a kid. She would say of my birth father: “I’m picturing a Paul Robeson figure, Jackie, perhaps with a bit of Nelson Mandela mixed in.”

In another, I started writing the book when I was pregnant. It’s difficult when your writing infiltrates your life and vice versa, difficult to work out what actually happened and what didn’t. Your imaginative life is your reality.

I remember in 1988, after I attended, for the first time, a Caribbean writers’ conference in central London. I was 26. I lived off West Green Road in Tottenham, with three other lesbians. My housemate Gabriela Pearse, also a budding poet, drove me across London in her red Citroën Diane. I remember arriving at the large, beautifully tiled foyer where the Jamaican poet Jean “Binta” Breeze was performing her astonishing poem about mental illness, “Riddym Ravings”. I was transfixed by her voice and the voice she’d given to the radio, lodged inside her like a baby.

There were academics and writers there from all over the world. Gabriela had told me there was a free spot where anyone could offer to read. I got up on the stage and read two poems called pragmatically, “The Mother Poem One” and “The Mother Poem Two”. One was in the voice of the birth mother and one in the voice of the adoptive mother. Perhaps it was the sight of me stood there with my big pregnant belly, but the poems to my surprise got a wonderful response and people kept coming up afterwards – Italian, French, Trinidadian and American delegates as well as British – asking where they could get them. They couldn’t get them anywhere because they weren’t published.

Patrick was taken from Brazil by a newborn, by a Dutch couple who could not have children; 40 years later, Dutch government recognizes mistakes and suspends international adoption

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Ana Estela de Sousa Pinto(https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/autores/ana-estela-de-sousa-pinto.shtml)

There were so many lies, lucky strikes, setbacks and perseverance that the

story of Patrick Noordoven, 41, will become a book in Holland. This month, two new

Coline, Marie-Laure and Pattie-Maëlle were all born in Guatemala and adopted in Europe. But the first two were stolen from their birth families, and the last one grew up with a false mother name on her record. To help people in a similar situation shed light on their history, they created the Lost Roots Foundation.

Helping adoptees born in Guatemala to reunite with their families: this is the main goal of Lost Roots. The foundation was created in early 2021, created by people themselves born in this small Latin American country and adopted in Europe.

Some of them were victims of child trafficking during the Guatemalan armed conflict (1960-1996). This is the case with Coline , born Mariela in Guatemala in 1986, and adopted in Belgium when she was eleven months old. When she becomes a mother, she begins a quest for her origins to answer her daughter's questions.

Many times in her life she had tried to find answers, without success. "There was no structure to do research, so it was a bit like wild research," she explains.

Child trafficking involving the ex-sister-in-law of dictator Oscar Mejia Victores

When Anitha Clemence was to be adopted from India, she was put to sleep and flown asleep to Sweden. She was 2.5 years old and is unsure of what really happened.

"I had no idea who those people were," says Anitha about the first meeting with her adoptive parents.

Hear her emotional story of how her adoption went and her feelings about it.

Anitha Clemence was adopted from India to Sweden when she was 2.5 years old and is unsure of what really happened. She knows that she was put to sleep in India and flew asleep to Sweden. At Arlanda, she met her adoptive parents for the first time. "Can you do this to a child? It is terrible and I think everyone who has children feels that ", she says.

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The government is opting for the easy way by temporarily stopping adoption, adoptees say. Attention must be paid to the positive stories and opportunities to change the system.

By stopping adoption, the government is avoiding its responsibility and going for 'the easy way'. That is the opinion of the Interlandelijk Geadoptijven (SiG) Foundation, which, according to board member Inez Teurlings, represents 'the silent mass of adoptees'. They believe that the debate about adoption is now being conducted too one-sidedly, because only the negative experiences are highlighted.

Not a synonym for child trafficking

“Adoption is not synonymous with child trafficking,” says Teurlings. “It is much more than that. It is logical that, after the report of the Joustra Committee, it is mainly the abuses that are central and that you hear the voices of the victims the loudest. But that is a one-sided story. Many adoptees are doing very well. ”

The SiG calls the temporary stop 'extremely undesirable' and 'unnecessarily harmful'. “To conclude without proper substantiation that it is not possible to develop a new adoption system is a shame for Dutch democracy,” the foundation said in its statement. She calls for an assessment per file whether there are sufficient grounds to continue the adoption.

When they learned the truth, a world collapsed: That it was the donation of sperm from an anonymous stranger that they were conceived with. A group of half-siblings are fighting for what they are legally entitled to for a long time: To know who their real father is.

Wolfgang Büscher Stand: 3:47 pm

Perhaps the most ardent longing human beings are capable of is those for truth. For the truth about yourself. And sometimes the search for it takes a crooked path. A boy grows up with his older brother in an intact family, his mother is a high school teacher, the father a physicist, both love their jobs and their children. And yet the boy sometimes has the feeling that something is not what it should be.

Just a faint doubt - is something really wrong, or am I just imagining it? What the boy sees is not just imagination: father and older brother get on well, they share a soft spot for science. He, Alexander, loves languages.

There are similar differences in other families as well. And yet it depresses him to hear father and brother talk shop about chemistry for hours, for example on long Christmas days, and he's out. He then, says Alexander B. today, threw something in to draw attention to himself, so that he could appear. And at school he chose subjects that weren't really his thing. "I wanted to make father proud."

AIKEN, S.C.. (WRDW/WAGT) - A father from Aiken County had to go to court and fought for months to get his daughter back. But now, they’ve been reunited.

His daughter was put up for adoption without his permission, all because of an outdated South Carolina law. Now, this father is working to make sure this never happens to anyone else.

“When the one thing that you love is deprived ... something as simple as...feeling the warmth of her skin, seeing her eyes. It’s an experience and a moment one language can’t put into words. It’s very hurtful.”

Christopher Emanuel knows the pain of a father losing his daughter.

“There wasn’t anybody that I could talk to that could tell me I was going to get my daughter back,” he said.

A study examines how supposedly progressive networks in Berlin sexually abused children from the 1970s to the 1990s. Pedophile homosexuals and left-wing autonomous projects were involved. A look into human abysses.

I.ngo Fock doesn't want to tell so much about himself that day. “I am a contemporary witness and a victim, but my story is actually only exemplary. So it shouldn't be the focus today, ”he says. Just so much: he too suffered abuse in a so-called pedophile circle of friends. Later also sexual violence, on the children's line at the Bahnhof Zoo in Berlin.

Today's chairman of the “Against Abuse” association spoke more intensively about this time with the “Fluter” magazine. About how he, the neglected separation child, between the ages of seven and 13, was abused and passed around by an acquaintance of his mother's. Nude photos, stroking, kissing, oral sex, anal sex - Fock suffered all of this. Then the children's stroke. When he was 13 years old, he was too old for men.

"It was completely normal for children to run around naked on the street in Berlin-Kreuzberg," says Ingo Fock, who as a child was himself a victim of abuse in the capital

"It was completely normal for children to run around naked on the street in Berlin-Kreuzberg," says Ingo Fock, who as a child was himself a victim of abuse in the capital

Without realizing it, Babs Oudenhuijzen from Terheijden had a photo album full of suffering from dozens of people in her closet. It is a reminder of her time in Motherheil, an institution in Breda where unmarried mothers came to give birth. The babies were given up for adoption, sometimes under duress.

It is a small album bound in imitation leather with dozens of black and white photos of babies. The first names are there, but they have sometimes been changed later by the adoptive parents. It is unknown who those babies later became. Babs is now making her photo album available for research, so that the babies from that time can be traced. And maybe finally have a baby picture of herself.

Babs worked from June 1965 to July 1967 as a caretaker at Mother Health. She was 18 when she started and had a lot of fun with nice colleagues. “I went to work there because there were those lovely little children. I loved babies. ”

"I was there for the kids. Maybe very stupid, but it was."

Babs was unaware of all the suffering behind the adoptions: “I was 18, but actually still as a 16-year-old child. I think I was a very innocent girl who really enjoyed working with children. And what the background was, that didn't matter at all to me. It was not talked about, not at work or at home. I was there for the kids. Maybe very stupid, but it was. ”