MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade could come as early as next month. Tennessee lawmakers expect adoption and foster reform legislation to be a priority in next year’s general assembly.

Tennessee, like all Mid-South states, has a trigger law that would go into effect banning most abortion in the state if Roe v. Wade is overturned and a leaked Supreme Court Draft opinion suggests it may.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says adoptions and foster care reform has been a focus of his throughout his term and will continue to be so no matter the decision.

The Adoption Project, a newly formed organization in Nashville, is aiming to have some of that legislation in front of lawmakers’ next general assembly.

The policy organization says it’s likely more children will be given up for adoption or go into foster care if most abortions are outlawed in the state.

The appointment of experts in the inquiry into foreign adoptions is reminiscent of the home blindness that the inquiry seeks to address. The criticism that the government might have hoped for is already being renewed when the legitimacy of the inquiry can be questioned.

It was after Dagens Nyheter's and SVT's extensive investigations of irregularities and crimes in connection with adoptions to Sweden, that the government in October 2021 got its thumbs out and Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren announced that an investigation was being appointed . One of the main purposes is to clarify the existence of irregularities. The assignment will be reported in November 2023.

One subject of the reviews, which has also received a lot of criticism from adoptees, was the Adoption Center, Sweden's largest adoption mediator. Former employees of the Adoption Center in Chile were singled out for making children available for adoption without parental consent, through corrupt contacts in the judiciary, social services and health care. The Chilean tragedy is spreading over large parts of the western world. Children were pronounced dead, they were stolen from daycare, they were torn from their mothers' arms, they lost their families. A major criminal investigation is underway in Chile.

Cold hand

When Dagens Nyheter focused on Colombia , the newspaper was able to provide information about incorrect background stories and how children disappeared from hospitals and day care to eventually be sent to Sweden. The newspaper also spoke with the Colombian families. But when they searched the Adoption Center for a comment about the organization's responsibility for unethical and sometimes illegal adoptions, it became cold.

LOCHRISTI -Tonight starts on One 'We Are Family'. After reporter Lidewij Nuitten went looking for her former sweetheart Mark last year, she is now unraveling the roots of two adoptive sisters. In the second episode she looks for golden tips in Lochristi.

If you want to get to know yourself, you have to look for your origin. Lidewij learned that last year in 'Where is Mark?', the search for her first love. A story that was mainly about adoption. Starting tonight she will work on an analogous story and together with Noëmi and Anéline she will look for their biological parents. This brings her back on the track of rapprochement with her own brothers. But first a detour to Lochristi, where photographer Filip Naudts has a cozy family, with partner Katrien, son Alphonse and daughter Yang. So an adoptive daughter.

"Lidewij came to us with Noëmi and Anéline, hoping to pick up some golden tips from our noses during their search," says the Lootse photographer. “They got wind of our own search and asked if we didn't want to participate in the new series around the same problem.”

From the moment that Yang completed their family, Filip and his wife Katrien went in search of the answer to the origin-related question that Yang might one day ask himself. “We don't know Yang's birth history and there is certainly no information about her biological family. It is therefore like looking for a needle in a haystack. But doing nothing was not an option for us from the start, especially as time could erase clues. There are always files that disappear, or relatives that die. Despite many attempts through various American and Chinese channels, and also having search posters posted in Yang's native region, the search has still not yielded any fruitful results after all these years," it sounds.

What does daughter Yang, 17 and a student Restaurant-Keuken at the Hotel School in Ghent, think about this? “I don't really care that much about my past. I am only reminded when others approach me about this and ask, for example, what it is like to be adopted, or whether it was easy to learn the Dutch language.” “During my internship at De Lozen Boer, someone asked me why I considered working in a Chinese restaurant” (laughs). “People may mean well, but personally I find these comments rather irrelevant. Not because I want to deny my Chinese roots – a bit difficult in my case – or because adoption has no meaning in my life. But I actually prefer to be judged on my skills and who I am as a person. My origin doesn't really matter. That's why I don't feel the urge to visit my biological family at the moment. Though I'm not saying that can't change. For example, if I ever become pregnant or, who knows, adopt a child.” ?(Geert Herman)

An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday Egyptian media tycoon Mohamed El Amin to three years in prison in addition to a fine of EGP 200,000 for human trafficking and for sexually assaulting seven girls at an orphanage he owned in a province near Cairo.

Following a report filed by the country’s National Council for Childhood and Motherhood and an ensuing investigation, El Amin was arrested in January. His first trial was in March.

Investigators discovered that many of the girls living in El Amin’s orphanage had been assaulted by him during his regular visits to the home, which is located in his home province of Beni Suef, 150 kilometres south of Cairo.

The girls’ testimonies, 13 of which were cited in the court’s verdict on Monday which was seen by The National, were remarkably similar with most of them recounting how El Amin would come to the orphanage every week.

El Amin had also made a habit out of taking groups of girls from the orphanage to his summer home in Egypt’s North Coast, where he would also assault them, court documents showed.

An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday Egyptian media tycoon Mohamed El Amin to three years in prison in addition to a fine of EGP 200,000 for human trafficking and for sexually assaulting seven girls at an orphanage he owned in a province near Cairo.

Following a report filed by the country’s National Council for Childhood and Motherhood and an ensuing investigation, El Amin was arrested in January. His first trial was in March.

Investigators discovered that many of the girls living in El Amin’s orphanage had been assaulted by him during his regular visits to the home, which is located in his home province of Beni Suef, 150 kilometres south of Cairo.

The girls’ testimonies, 13 of which were cited in the court’s verdict on Monday which was seen by The National, were remarkably similar with most of them recounting how El Amin would come to the orphanage every week.

El Amin had also made a habit out of taking groups of girls from the orphanage to his summer home in Egypt’s North Coast, where he would also assault them, court documents showed.

A major disclosure in the ongoing probe into the busting of an illegal sex determination centre at Rishi Nagar in Ludhiana has been made.

Police Commissioner Dr Kaustubh Sharma confirmed that the police probe found the role of the arrested doctor in a child trafficking racket as well.

“After the arrest of Dr Mohinder Kaur in the sex determination racket, the police have recovered some mobile phones and documents which signalled that a child trafficking racket was also being operated from the hospital. The accused could have sold newborn babies to the needy couples across Punjab. We are verifying each and every aspect now,” CP Sharma told The Tribune on Saturday.

The CP said, “The police probe has definitely found the child trafficking activity and our team is on the job to corroborate all evidences.” The CP said after the arrest of Dr Mohinder, raid was also conducted on the premises of Dr Malkiat, from where Rs 1.75 lakh and some other important documents pertaining to the sex determination were recovered.

Sources said a newborn girl was being sold at Rs 3 lakh and boy at Rs 6 lakh. Parents were also getting handsome amount to sell their child.

World Children's Day 2022

Wereldkinderen exists 50 years and we like to celebrate this with you. Come to amusement park Slagharen on Saturday 21 May 2022 !

A day on which special encounters with adoptees, parents, volunteers, employees and foreign contacts are central.

You are most welcome from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.!

Slagharen Theme Park

THE HAGUE - Sebastian Kruis, leader of the PVV party in The Hague in daily life, was at Schiphol a month ago, not knowing what the following weeks in Colombia would bring him. He went on a trip to the South American country to look for his biological family. And with success, less than two weeks later he found his biological mother in a shelter for the homeless elderly in Medellín. "I went from no information at all about my mother to a meeting with her in a matter of days."

The 32-year-old party leader was adopted at a young age by a couple from the Netherlands. 'When I was nine months old, I was adopted and came to the Netherlands. I grew up there in Zoetermeer and when I was eighteen I moved to The Hague, the most beautiful city in the Netherlands', Kruis begins in the radio program Menno in de Middag. 'I am now 32 years old and in all this time I really didn't feel the need to know more about my biological family and look for them.'

Until more than a year ago a report was published about abuses in international adoptions and the role of the Dutch government in this. 'There have been stories for some time that things have gone wrong with adoptions. But that research showed that things often did not go well with adoptions and that the government played a reprehensible role in this,' explains the PVV member. 'That made me, like many other adopted children, start to doubt whether my adoption file is correct and I really wanted to find out', says the politician.

Tour of Colombian population register and police

So Kruis put his money where his mouth is and he was standing at Schiphol on 22 April with a suitcase and ticket to Medellín in his hand. 'I mainly went to Colombia with the idea to see if I could get more information about my adoption file. I only had a name and a place of birth', he says.

Nine cases in six months; focussed communication needed from govt to curb the practice, say experts

HYDERABAD: The alleged case of illegal adoption by cine actor Karate Kalyani has exposed the deep-rooted issue of illegal adoption. The issue, in fact, is neither new nor uncommon for Telangana as the State has seen nine such cases in the last six months. However, on the positive side, the Women Development and Child Welfare Department rescued all the nine children who had been adopted illegally during this period and rehabilitated them at Shishu Vihar, which is one of the nodal child care institutes run by the State government.

All the nine children, who were rescued from different parts of the State, are under the age of five. However, it may be mentioned here that there are other such government centres in different districts so the actual number of children rescued after illegal adoption may be higher. In 2020, the State also saw a total of 127 legal adoptions both within the country and from abroad.

Detrimental to children

Meanwhile, experts stressed the need for a focussed communication from the government to convey that adoptions done out of sympathy hold no legal sanctity and are, in fact, detrimental to the adopted children.

To identify more than 66,000 children whose adoptions failed, USA TODAY scoured a massive database designed to track every child in America who passes through foster care.

The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, started in 1993, contains data that states submit twice a year. USA TODAY entered a data-sharing agreement promising to ensure the security and confidentiality of the data. Reporters reviewed the records of 3.4 million children who spent time in foster care from 2008 to 2020.

A key feature of the AFCARS database is the clues it holds to a child's past.

When child welfare workers remove kids from home and place them in foster care, states are supposed to note whether they were previously adopted. That offers a potential window to see children whose adoptions failed.

But USA TODAY found errors or blank spots where this information should be recorded. The adoption flag was consistently missing or marked as “unable to determine” in the records of more than 400,000 kids served by the child welfare system from 2008 to 2020. Reporters found that Washington listed some children as previously adopted when they were not.