The commission has asked the directorate of women and child development to ensure that specialised adoption agencies in Goa set up cradles to receive abandoned children

A child rights body in Goa on October 31 issued an advisory to various agencies of the State Government about the rise in cases of infants being abandoned at unsafe places, an official said.

The Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has issued an advisory to the directorate of women and child welfare, health department and Goa police to help parents in distress to surrender their infants.

“The recent incidences of newborn abandonment in Goa, most of it in unsafe places recently, is very perturbing,” the commission stated in the advisory.

It noted that the State had recorded 11 such cases in five years (2017-2022), and four of these were registered this year alone.

With National Adoption Month quickly approaching, the adoptee and former foster youth side of the adoption community on social media have been diligently sharing content to help bring attention to the nuances of adoption.

And while the internet is a powerful tool, I can safely say that I never thought adoptees would be going toe to toe on TikTok with Rosie O’Donnell, a white adoptive mom and celebrity, who said she was sorry that “adoption didn’t work out” for some adoptees, but wants to know what should happen to children without families?

Like Rosie, I wanted to believe that adoption was a solution to the many children in need of homes, and when I stumbled into the online adoption community many years ago after discovering I was adopted, I remember feeling overwhelmed—and even defensive—about how negatively people were depicting something that helped so many.

Queer Kids Are Getting Blasted With Too Much Doom and Gloom

This is what I now refer to as toxic positivity and saviorism in the workshops I teach to parents and adoption professionals—because so many people are unaware of the dangers and ethical problems of adoption in the United States. Objectively speaking, adoption in the U.S. is often not child-centered, and the desires of adoptive parents and professionals are prioritized along with profit-margins.

While Supreme Court has voiced concerns over their increasing use to prove a case, women’s rights activists deem the technology an empowering tool

Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA tests occupy a grey area in the quest for justice, vacillating between the dangers of slipping into self-incrimination and encroachment of individual privacy and the ‘eminent need’ to unearth the truth, be in the form of evidence in a criminal case, a claim of marital infidelity or proving paternity.

More and more complainants are seeking DNA tests — a senior official associated with a government laboratory estimates such requests increasing by around 20% each year. DNA Forensics Laboratory Private Limited, one of the biggest centres which is accredited with the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), says it tests around 300-400 samples each month that are both private requests and court-mandated. The numbers were only around 30-40 till five years ago.

funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland

The DIH researches together with partners: within a scientific network politically motivated forced adoptions in the GDR.

It is funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community (BMI) for a period of 36 months with around 970,000 euros .

Start: 07/01/2022

End: 6/30/2025

Whistleblowers House for litigation support

House for Whistleblowers - The Hague

The Bill for the Protection of Whistleblowers (hereinafter: the new law) is currently being discussed. This new law, which replaces the current House for Whistleblowers Act, has direct consequences for the work of the House for Whistleblowers (hereinafter the House).

As a competent authority, the House must have set up a reporting channel by 17 December 2021 for receiving and processing information about abuses with a social interest (hereinafter: abuses) and violations of Union law (hereinafter: violations). To enable effective communication with staff responsible for handling reports, the Whistleblowers Authority must have a channel that is user-friendly, secure, and ensures confidentiality in receiving and handling information provided by the reporter about breaches and suspected wrongdoing and which offers the possibility to store information permanently so that it can be further investigated. The notifications, questions and requests arrive at the front portal, where the selection should take place or whether there is a request for advice, a report in connection with an infringement, a report in connection with an abuse or a request for a treatment investigation. Due to the terms that apply in the event of a report in connection with a breach (and as of 17 December 2021, these terms also apply to reports in connection with wrongdoing), the internal process registration must be adjusted.

Due to the expected increase in activities due to the European Whistleblower Directive and new legislation, we are looking for temporary reinforcement by a process assistant.

The revelation has led the police to suspect that the accused might have similarly arranged more illegal adoptions in the past, and he is being interrogated accordingly.

Mumbai: Santosh Dhumale, the man arrested for the alleged kidnapping of a 71-day-old girl, had facilitated another illegal adoption of a baby girl on the same day as the abduction, investigations have revealed. The police have arrested Bhimshappa Shanivar, 45, who had illegally “bought” the child from Dhumale.

“Dhumale, in his interrogation, revealed that he had arranged another illegal adoption of a two-month-old baby girl, and handed her over to the 45-year-old Sion resident on Tuesday morning,” said assistant commissioner of police Milind Khetle, Azad Maidan division.

He added that the girl was taken from her biological mother with her consent and paid her ?90,000, while Dhumale received ?3 lakh for the job.

“The girl is currently in a shelter home for children and we are trying to trace her biological mother so that we can make inquiries with her as well,” Khetle said.

The revelation has led the police to suspect that the accused might have similarly arranged more illegal adoptions in the past, and he is being interrogated accordingly.

Mumbai: Santosh Dhumale, the man arrested for the alleged kidnapping of a 71-day-old girl, had facilitated another illegal adoption of a baby girl on the same day as the abduction, investigations have revealed. The police have arrested Bhimshappa Shanivar, 45, who had illegally “bought” the child from Dhumale.

“Dhumale, in his interrogation, revealed that he had arranged another illegal adoption of a two-month-old baby girl, and handed her over to the 45-year-old Sion resident on Tuesday morning,” said assistant commissioner of police Milind Khetle, Azad Maidan division.

He added that the girl was taken from her biological mother with her consent and paid her ?90,000, while Dhumale received ?3 lakh for the job.

“The girl is currently in a shelter home for children and we are trying to trace her biological mother so that we can make inquiries with her as well,” Khetle said.

The petition filed by Nisha Pandya, a resident of Kandivli, through advocates Vishal Kanade and Sameer Sawant states that the 2021 amendment replaced the word “court” with “district magistrate”, implying that the adoption procedure will be overseen by an executive officer

Mumbai: A petition filed in the Bombay high court on October 6 has challenged the 2021 amendment to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, and the subsequent notification of September 1, 2022, which authorises district magistrates to oversee and decide on adoption cases. This task was thus far the responsibility of the judiciary.

The petition has also sought a stay on the September 30 communication from the authorities to the courts to transfer all adoption cases to district magistrates. It will come up for hearing after the Diwali vacations.

The petition filed by Nisha Pandya, a resident of Kandivli, through advocates Vishal Kanade and Sameer Sawant states that the 2021 amendment replaced the word “court” with “district magistrate”, implying that the adoption procedure will be overseen by an executive officer, which was otherwise entrusted to the judiciary ever since the word ‘adoption’ was defined under the Act by an amendment in 2006.

The petition stated that another amendment in 2015 had taken away the power to oversee the process of adoption from the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) and had conferred it on the courts with the aim of ensuring that a proper procedure was followed under the supervision and sanction of the court. The petition further stated that the Supreme Court had also laid down guidelines for adoption, after which the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) was set up.

Waddinxveen - She is 40 years old, writing a book and giving lectures; Mariel Fox. She lives in Gouda, but the first 18 years of her life she lived in Waddinxveen. First with adoptive parents, later in a foster family. She has sometimes asked herself the question: do I want to live or do I choose death? Her conclusion is now: 'Life is worth living, make something of it.' That is her message for Foster Care Week (November 2-9).

She was four months old when she came from India to her adoptive parents in the Netherlands. Vos calls her adoptive parents gifted. “I was beaten, mentally molested and at the age of eight I already knew how much my adoption had cost.”

Were adoptive parents not screened in those days? "Surely. But the rules that apply now are very different. I also know that the church guaranteed my adoptive parents.”

One day, Vos was eight, she was sick and vomited. According to Vos, her adoptive mother was not happy with her and kept repeating that she was not getting value for money and now she also made the sheets dirty. Vos was locked in the barn where she was eventually freed by the police.

She was asked the question: do you want to go to the office or do you want to stay at home? “I chose the latter and promised to always be a sweet child. I did everything to please my adoptive parents.”

Child protection measures can help to improve the well-being of parents and their children. The violence also seems to stop more often, according to research.

Yara van BuurenOctober 28, 2022 , 9:36 AM

Every year in the Netherlands, more than 100,000 children are abused at home. The cause is often an accumulation of risk factors, which makes the approach particularly complex. If there are concerns about the safety and development of the child, a juvenile court may order that the minor be placed under the supervision of a family guardian. The child can also be removed from the home.

In recent decades, a great deal of research has been carried out into the functioning of youth protection. Yet little research has been done into the effectiveness of these far-reaching interventions. The Verwey-Jonker Institute has a study on Thursday showing that child protection measures help to improve the family situation.

For the study, more than 1300 families were followed for a year and a half in which there is evidence of child abuse. A supervision order and/or custodial placement was imposed on 480 families. Compared to families that have no involvement from youth protection, a clear improvement can be seen in the well-being of the children. Bonding with parents improves, emotional safety increases and trauma complaints decrease sharply.