Yung Fierens, on behalf of adoption interest groups Adoption Schakel Connecteert, CAFE, CAW, Racines Perdues Raìces Perdidas, Empreintes Vivantes.

YUNG FIERENSFebruary 1, 2023 , 03:00

In June last year, a resolution on intercountry adoptions was voted in the Chamber of Representatives.

With this, the submitter of the resolution Michel De Maegd (MR) was supported by the entire hemisphere in asking the Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld) to investigate illegal adoptions that have taken place from various countries to Belgium.

Eight months later, Van Quickenborne seems to make little move to accede to this request, supported by his own party. The minister replied to questions about the lack of any initiative, including that he had been 'very busy'. He refused to answer the request to set a date for a first meeting. He also indicated that he did not know exactly what was expected of him.

You were adopted, but your adoption papers were tampered with in the past. Still, you want to know where you come from. And maybe also find biological relatives. “Searching using DNA also has a lot of potential for adoptees,” says Jeroen (38). We asked him about his experiences.

Jeroen was adopted from Indonesia. Together with his adoptive sister and brother, he used to live with his parents in the east of the Netherlands. I have fond childhood memories. When I lived abroad for a while for work in 2008, people sometimes thought it was strange that I looked Asian, but I came from the Netherlands. At that moment, Jeroen becomes curious about his roots. That was very broad back then. For example, I started listening to Indonesian music, was interested in the culture.

In that year Jeroen writes a letter to Spoorloos. It could take a while, they immediately said. So I didn't have high expectations. The papers showed that I had an Indonesian mother and a Chinese father. Furthermore, there were too many gaps in the file, so Spoorloos indicated that they could do nothing for me. Although I expected it, that message was not nice. In the meantime I had already made a roots trip to Indonesia in 2010. There people asked if I was from Japan, Korea or Vietnam. Anything but Indonesia or China. This was all painfully confusing. I thought I found my roots, but instead I felt like a foreigner there too.

In 2011 he reads an article in National Geographic about DNA research. You can not only demonstrate kinship with this, but also map out your ethnic background. I thought the chance of a match with a distant relative was quite small, but maybe that way I could get confirmation for my Chinese roots. I immersed myself in the matter and registered with FTDNA. I sent the swab with my saliva. An online account will then be created and you will be kept well informed. In the beginning I checked the website every day. I opted for an extensive test. It costs €700, but then you can also find your 'deep ancestry'. Then you see where your ancestors from tens of thousands of years ago come from. I find it very interesting and cool that this is possible. It's an ongoing journey

And those results are coming. I have ancestors in Southeast Asia, but that is still very wide. FTDNA mainly focuses on customers from Europe and the United States. That is why Jeroen contacts a professor who is mapping 70 subpopulations in Asia. She did this in response to the attack in Jakarta in 2004. This is how they hoped to find the perpetrators. At the same time, she had collected a lot of information about ethnic groups in Indonesia. I then sent her my raw data from FTDNA. Then Jeroen receives a special message: he is almost 100% Javanese. It was clear that my adoption papers had been tampered with. So my father was not Chinese. This gave peace. Indonesia is big, but I didn't have to go all over Southeast Asia.

Yung Fierens, on behalf of adoption interest groups Adoption Schakel Connecteert, CAFE, CAW, Racines Perdues Raìces Perdidas, Empreintes Vivantes.

YUNG FIERENS 1 February 2023 , 03:00

In June last year, a resolution on intercountry adoptions was voted in the Chamber of Representatives.

With this, the submitter of the resolution Michel De Maegd (MR) was supported by the entire hemisphere in asking the Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld) to conduct an investigation into illegal adoptions that have taken place from various countries to Belgium.

Eight months later, Van Quickenborne seems to make little move to accede to this request, supported by his own party. The minister replied to questions about the lack of any initiative, including that he had been 'very busy'. He refused to answer the request to set a date for a first meeting. He also indicated that he did not know exactly what was expected of him.

Crying that she wanted to go home, a 3-year-old girl was sent to live with a new family Tuesday afternoon, devastating the one she had lived with her whole life.

“You could hear her crying down the hall,” said Nicole DeHaven, tears falling down her cheeks as she talked about the little girl she and her husband, John, have raised since she was three days old. “They had to hold her back. She kept saying, ‘I want to go home. I want to go home.”

Wyandotte County Judge Jane A. Wilson ordered the DeHavens to turn over the girl at the county’s juvenile office by 4 p.m. Tuesday, the couple said. From there, the girl in the pink Aurora princess dress would be taken to a family in Manhattan, Kansas, that wants to adopt her.

In a decision Friday, Wilson ruled against the recommendation of the Kansas Department for Children and Families that the girl stay with the DeHavens, who have been her foster family since Oct. 31, 2019.

Wilson then consented to the girl being adopted by the Manhattan family, which has three of her biological siblings, although she has never lived with them.

HYDERABAD: In a heartening trend, Telangana is witnessing a growing demand for girl children among couples aspiring to become parents. According to official data, the state saw 1,430 children being adopted between 2014 and 2022. Of these, 1,069 were girls and 361 were boys.

Until a few years ago, the statistics were starkly different. Prospective adoptive parents (PAP) at that time were willing to wait for years - almost close to a decade in some cases - only to take home a baby boy. The little girls weren't so lucky.

"Now, things have certainly changed. In fact, there is such a demand that we are not being able to meet it," said an official of the Telangana Women and Child Welfare Department attributing this overwhelming preference for girls as a "personal choice" that PAPs are making these days.

"Slowly but surely people are becoming more accepting of girl children," said the official, an observation seconded by prospective parents and women activists. "For me, the priority is to get a child who will complete us. I do not care whether it is a girl or a boy," said a parent-to-be who applied for adoption in 2022 and is now waiting for clearance from Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).

Activists agree that most PAPs are not gender specific any more. "So, since the wait time for adopting a girl is lesser, they are going for that," said activist and founder of Tharuni, Mamatha Raghuveer Achanta. While the waiting period for a boy, even now, is at least three to four years, for girls it's just about a year from the date of applying, Mamatha added.

Mumbai: It is important to hear the biological mother in a case dealing with the transfer of custody of a child to adoptive parents, the Bombay City Civil Court observed on Monday

Mumbai: It is important to hear the biological mother in a case dealing with the transfer of custody of a child to adoptive parents, the Bombay City Civil Court observed on Monday.

The court made this observation while asking a couple, booked in 2019 adoption racket case, to add the biological mother of the child that they seek to adopt, as a party to their plea for custody of the child.

In July 2019, Mumbai police busted a racket of alleged illegal adoption, wherein several couple are said to have bypassed the legal formalities and adopted children by merely paying money to their biological parents, who came from poor economic background. The police had rescued six such children from the “adoptive parents”.

One of the parents, Ramesh Sitap and his wife, had approached the city civil court last year to declare them as guardians of the boy they had purportedly “illegally adopted”. During a earlier hearing, the court had issued a notice to the child welfare committee, in whose custody the child is presently lodged, to respond to the plea.

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The adoptive parents of a 4-year-old boy have been charged with murder after he died from abuse injuries, authorities said.

A North Carolina couple have been charged with murder after their 4-year-old adopted son died from abuse, including an exorcism and being denied food, according to authorities.

Jodi Ann Wilson and Joseph Wilson were arrested earlier this month, and were indicted this week by a grand jury on murder charges, according to the Surry County Criminal Court Clerk's office. Both are being held without bail, online records show.

Paramedics were summoned on Jan. 5 after Joseph Wilson reported the boy had a seizure, authorities said. The child was transported to a local hospital, where he died four days later from abuse injuries, the sheriff's office said.

"The investigation revealed that Skyler Wilson passed away from injuries related to the abuse sustained by his parents, and his death is being investigated as a homicide," Surry County Sheriff Steve Hiatt said in a statement earlier this month.

Amy (40) is with Xavier (42). Together they have daughters Sophie (13), Luna (10) and son Bo (8).

“I am a Sunday child; my life has, on myadoptionafter, never known setbacks. And I don't even see my adoption as something negative. My biological South Korean parents could not take care of me because of the economic situation in their country, around 1980. The fact that my Dutch parents, whom I consider to be my real parents, had a place for me in their home and heart, is something that I thank them for. always be thankful.

I was one and a half when I was delivered by plane to Schiphol, accompanied by a supervisor from the adoption foundation. After me, my parents had a biological child, my sister Lisette, but I never had the feeling that there was a difference between us. My parents loved us both equally, from their toes - and still do.

Biological parents

Xavier and I had been together for eighteen years, our kids leading carefree lives in elementary school, when I suddenly began questioning my heritage. Looking at my beautiful, healthy, happy family, I couldn't imagine a mother ever voluntarily parting with it. More and more often, reports came out in the media that many adoptions in my time were not completely kosher, and that information on adoption papers was not always correct. What if my parents had not given me up voluntarily at all?