By The Editorial Board •  17 May 2023, 10:00AM

The Samoan adoption scam was a story that rocked the nation some 14-16 years ago when it emerged that Samoan children were illegally taken from their families by an American adoption agency and sent to the U.S.

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Have you ever tried to go back (in your thoughts) and listen to yourself, to what you really felt growing up as an adoptee?

When I try to go back in time like that, I realise I have so many feelings and thoughts I never dared to express. I still carry those feelings inside of me.

As a transracial, intercountry adoptee growing up in Sweden during 1970-1980, I feel that I was part of an experiment. Children from countries all over the world were placed in Swedish families and we were supposed to be like a “clean slate”, as if our life stories started at the airport in Sweden.

My background was never a secret and I was allowed to read my documents from Chile. But I never felt that I could talk about my feelings and thoughts about my first mom. I held so much inside and was never asked to express anything regarding my feelings or thoughts. I couldn’t understand why I was in Sweden, why I wasn’t with my mom and my people in Chile. I felt so unwanted and not loved.

I wrote a letter to my mom as if I was 7 years old. I don’t know why I did it, but I wrote the letter in Spanish.

GUWAHATI: An FIR was filed against Walliul Islam and Sangita Dutta on the grounds of suspected child abuse

of their adopted 3-year-old daughter at the Paltan Bazaar police station on May 5.

The complainant alleged that the couple tortured and harassed their adopted daughter by tying her up on the

terrace of the building in the intense heat purposefully without food or water, with an alleged intent to cause

harm or even kill the child.

The hospital doctors informed that they are waiting for collector P Kumaravel Pandian to form a committee to decide the future of the girl, he said.

VELLORE, CHENNAI: Ten couples have expressed willingness to adopt the child, who was abandoned at the Katpadi railway station, social activist and government vet Dr Ravi Shankar said Friday.

Shankar visited the child at the Vellore government medical college hospital. Two women constables were also in attendance at the venue, he added.

The infant, who was found at the railway station on Thursday, was admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital immediately for a thorough check-up. A woman carrying the baby had asked an old age couple to hold the girl as she wanted to go to the toilet. The couple informed the railway police, when the woman did not turn up.

Uploading the girl’s photo on social media, Shankar said, “I received ten phone calls from couples in and around Vellore who expressed willingness to adopt the girl child legally.”

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.

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ATTENTION ALL GREEK-BORN ADOPTEES!!! PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE POST!!!*** (This post was originally posted on the private group “Forgotten Children of Greece”. More than 30 Greek-born adoptees have already agreed to join this lawsuit. This is open to all Greek-born adoptees)

***UPDATE ON ACCESS TO RECORDS AND RESTORATION OF GREEK CITIZENSHIP***

It is painfully apparent that the Greek state has no real interest in acknowledging us, making our birth, orphanage and adoption records easily accessible or restoring our Greek citizenship. We have been fighting for this for over 2 years now and enough is enough. Now is the time to take action and that is precisely what we are going to do.

The bench said if the adoptive parents fail to get a stay from the other bench, appropriate orders will be passed on the next date of hearing on June 7.

By Vidya : The Bombay High Court has granted five weeks' time to a Mumbai couple to get a stay from another bench of the high court on an order of the Mumbai Civil court, which had directed them to return their adopted child to its biological parents.

The bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sharmila Deshmukh were hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the biological parents through their lawyer, Edith Dey. Dey submitted before the court that when the lower court had directed the adoptive parents to hand over the child to the biological parents, it had stayed its own order for a few weeks. After the stay period lapsed, and when the child was not handed over, they approached the court with a habeas corpus plea.

The former reality TV star, who has made several humanitarian trips to the continent in recent years, has been at the center of a controversy since rapper Booba accused him of wanting to kidnap a child in Madagascar.

Immaculate white sneakers, good looks and a big smile. Dylan Thiry, Luxembourg influencer with 1.6 million subscribers on Instagram, nevertheless wets the jersey. In 2021, we see him, under a bright sun, carrying food in a Senegalese village surrounded by many children.

Thiry, just under 30, often shows himself surrounded by smiling kids in the videos that document his humanitarian trips, in particular those made on the continent, in Morocco, Senegal or Madagascar.

"I take a big ticket and it saves a child"

But for the past few days, the handsome, friendly-looking kid who has set up his own charity, For our children, has been the subject of a lively controversy on social networks. In question: the publication, on April 25, by Booba, a famous French rapper of Senegalese origin in open war against influencers, of a voice message whose author would be Dylan Thiry.

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.

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