Staff

Kate Bradley joined the LBB family in 2012 and is Associate Director and head of social services and Child Placement Supervisor. Her passion for adoption was sparked while completing an internship at an adoption agency during college. Kate earned a Master of Social Work degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005. Over the course of the past 8+ years, Kate has worked in many areas of the adoption field. She began her career as a pregnancy counselor and in 2007, shifted to assisting eager families to achieve their dreams of becoming parents through adoption. Kate and her husband have two children, Kallum and Ryann. In addition, Kate is the adoptive mom of 2 huskies. She enjoys travel, cooking, books, and the active Colorado lifestyle. “For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.” Brian Andreas You may contact Kate at Kate@bbinternationaladoption.com or 303-333-1572 ext. 113.

Kelly Carmody is the Executive Director of A Love Beyond Borders. She has been providing support and guidance to adoptive families since 2003 and started with A Love Beyond Borders when it opened in 2008.

Kelly is a single parent to three teenagers who were adopted; Hope from Kazakhstan and Kevin and Laura from Colombia. Her two Colombian children joined the family first through the hosting program in Colombia. She loves animals and they have three dogs and a cat. She enjoys cooking, entertaining, reading, game nights and traveling. Favorite quote: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt You may contact Kelly atKelly@bbinternationaladoption.com or 303-333-1572 ext. 102.

Rachael Daugherty joined the LBB staff in 2013 as a social worker and provides our home study services for Colorado families as well as placement supervisor. She has a Master’s Degree in Social Work and has worked in the field of adoption as a pregnancy counselor, international adoption case worker, and community relations coordinator. Rachael is originally from Georgia. Rachael has a little girl who loves all things pink and princessy and a son who loves to pretend to be a dragon. One of her favorite poets in Rainer Rilke so one of her life quotes has become: “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” You may contact Rachael at Rachael@bbinternationaladoption.com or 303-333-1572 ext. 114.

Ludhiana: A few days after TOI reported the plight of 10-year-old Pratigya and her parents, who have been struggling to get her

custody for the past one year due to official apathy, social security and women & child development minister Aruna Chaudhary

on Friday sought a detailed report into the matter.

The minister also sought an explanation from the district child protection officer (DCPO) on the issue.

In its news reports published in these columns earliar this week, TOI had highlighted how Pratigya’s parents Gopal and Hema,

Ahmedabad couple files for annulment of her adoption; girl’s biological parents have no money to hire lawyer

Lovleen Bains & Harshraj Singh

Tribune reporters

Sahnewal/Ludhiana, Aug 28

An 11-year-old girl residing at Jugiana village in Ludhiana district went missing in May 2018, and the police had failed to trace her. She was put up for adoption in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, while she had her family back home in Punjab. In her flashbacks, she recalled her biological parents.

"You have to pull the emergency brake"

Youth offices are pushing 11 to 17-year-olds off to foreign projects. Education is promised to children in the most remote regions of the world, but some problem kids end up being cheap labor. Hard-to-control organizations benefit from it.

The promise sounds really good: "Living without consumption - just but warm". Thus, the prospectus of the Protestant Martinswerk Dorlar for its "measure in Transylvania".

In "suitable Romanian family circumstances," German problem children could "go back in time" with a "fully functional interpersonal network."

The 14-year-old Marcel from the Ruhr area is now at the behest of his youth office since last year in that "wholesome world", which will allow him later "in Germany a new start". The office had sent the divorce child with stress symptoms in school and family in a Romanian village.

Youth Aid Romania

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About 278 kids adopted across the country in 2017-19 were reportedly returned by their families, according to an RTI reply from CARA. Of these, a quarter of them were kids with special needs, 60 per cent were girls apart from older children with compatibility issues.

To say that Indian society today has eased into the idea of child adoption might be too simple an assumption. That said, with better awareness and evolved family setups, adoption isn’t just considered now as the recourse in the absence of biological kids. Today many people, from single parents to even those with biological children, including celebrities, are opting for adoption.

Child adoption practices in the country, however, are not exactly homogeneous. Among several personal preferences influencing the choice of the child to be adopted, is the desire for babies rather than older kids. Out of total 3374 domestic adoptions during the financial year 2018-19, 252 older children (between ages six and 18 years) were adopted by domestic parents, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) informed Express Parenting. In 2017-18, about 80 per cent of kids adopted in the country were below the age of two.

Why do people adopt babies and not older kids?

Adoptive parents usually want to experience all stages of the child’s growing up years, right from infancy. This also gives them an opportunity to start with a clean slate, to mould the child with the right values and etiquette right from the beginning.

Born to a rape victim, grandparents of the child refuse to accept him

Mahesh Sharma|

Mandi Ahmedgarh, August 27

The newborn son of a rape victim, who was allegedly sold to a Dehradun-based family for Rs 3 lakh, has been rescued but nobody is ready to accept him.

While his biological father is behind the bar for allegedly raping his mother, the parents of the victim are not ready to accept him fearing social stigma.

Ahmedabad: An adoption that began with the intention of embracing a girl who was either orphaned or abandoned, turned out

to be rather traumatic for the child along with her biological and adoptive parents.

While the 11-year-old girl is back to the orphanage she was adopted from, her biological parents have been making rounds of

government offices to secure custody of their daughter and the adoptive parents have had to file a case to invalidate the

adoption, so that the girl can be handed over to her biological parents.

SGB Home adopts abandoned baby girl

Our Correspondent

Mullanpur Dakha, May 5

The SGB Home, a body that takes care of abandoned children, at Dham Talwandi Khurd, near here, has adopted a girl child abandoned by her parents at Gill village, near Ludhiana.

The newborn was found abandoned in the fields on the outskirts of the village in the morning of April 30 by Tej Kaur.

Ludhiana, August 02, 2018: As per the orders of Punjab government, a new Child Welfare Committee has been constituted for District Ludhiana under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015. Mr Jatinder Pal Singh PCS (retired) has been appointed chairman of the committee while Tarsem Bahia, Sanjay Maheshwari, Baldev Singh and Raminder Kaur have been appointed as members.The new committee joined today and started the work with its first meeting on the same day.The chairman addressed the staff and the members and advised to work for the welfare of children in Ludhiana.

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