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The National Board of Appeal's four notes on a study of the Danish adoption agency from Colombia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri

The National Board of Appeal's four notes on a study of the Danish adoption agency from Colombia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka from the Minister of Social Affairs and the Elderly

The National Board of Appeal has quietly given birth to their investigation, which does not surprisingly release Denmark from liability in relation to the illegalities they can not deny have occurred in adoptions from the 4 countries they have chosen to investigate.

It is sad to read that in all 4 statements they generally use terms such as "in most cases" or "In several cases". Nevertheless, it was concluded that no illegalities could be detected.

It is predictable that the responsibility is imposed on the donor countries' "unregulated" conditions and not the pressure the adoption agencies imposed on the donor countries, just as it is directly problematic that the economic conditions including the widespread use of donations (which the last revision of the Adoption Act reintroduced) are not proven to be the vast majority of illegalities.

The Adoption Policy Forum can conclude:

Nurse cares for surrogate children in Kyiv as war stops her seeing her own

KYIV, March 16 (Reuters) - Ukrainian nurse Oksana Martynenko and her colleagues have 21 babies to look after at a makeshift clinic in a residential basement on the outskirts of Kyiv - all of them surrogates whose parents cannot come to collect them because of the war.

All the while she has her own family to worry about. Her children are in the region around Sumy, a city some 200 miles (320 km) east of the capital which has been bombarded by Russian forces.

It is too dangerous for Martynenko to try to reach them, so they are living with their grandmother.

"We haven't been able to get home since Feb. 24," she told Reuters on Tuesday, as she changed one of the baby's diapers.

"I am from Sumy region, but I cannot go there. I have children at home ... They (the Russians) started to bombard our town yesterday. We wait for news every day about what is happening there ... But we cannot leave these babies."

Former WA Rep. Matt Shea, accused of domestic terrorism, working to secure adoptions for Ukrainian children in Poland

Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned investigation to have planned and participated in domestic terrorism, is in a small town in Poland with more than 60 Ukrainian children, trying to facilitate their adoption in America.

Shea has said his group helped rescue 62 children and their two adult caregivers from an orphanage in Mariupol, the city in southeastern Ukraine that has been bombarded by Russian forces.

But international agencies say, with the chaos and confusion of war, now is not an appropriate time for international adoptions from Ukraine. And Shea’s presence, and the lack of information surrounding the American group he’s with, has raised concerns among some residents of Kazimierz Dolny, the small Polish town where the children are staying at a hotel-guesthouse.

“I asked him many times, ‘What are you going to do with these children?’ and he told me that it’s not my business,'” Weronika Ziarnicka, an aide to the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny, said of Shea. “I got the feeling in my gut that something’s wrong with this guy; he didn’t want to tell me his last name.”

Shea, who rarely speaks to mainstream media, did not respond to requests for comment.

Maha govt hikes monthly allowance for orphans, homeless children

Mumbai, Mar 16 (PTI) The Maharashtra government has hiked the monthly allowance for orphans and homeless children in the state to Rs 2,500 each from the child welfare scheme, state Minister Yashomati Thakur told the legislative Assembly on Wednesday.

During the Question Hour in the Lower House, the state women and child development minister said the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has been conducting a survey of orphans and homeless children in the state since November 2021.

As per the ongoing survey, as of now 5,153 children are living on the streets with their families, 1,266 are on the streets but live in slums and 39 are orphans, Thakur said.

Street children are being kept in day-care centres for their daily needs, she said.

The state government has increased the monthly allowance for orphans and homeless children from the child welfare scheme from Rs 425 to Rs 2,500 per child, the minister said.

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Adoptions in Bavaria: the long wait for a desired child

Although there are few adoptive children in Bavaria, many couples want to adopt. A lengthy process with an uncertain outcome. But the chances are increasing, because applications have been steadily declining for years.

When the phone rings and the youth welfare office is there, Jonathan and Yvonne Lodziana from Memmingen could suddenly be parents. "It's like when you're pregnant and you think: Oh God, tomorrow it can start from the due date. We just can't prepare for it," says 30-year-old Yvonne. The couple has been waiting in vain for an adopted child for a year.

Adopt as Plan A

"We considered whether we would never want to have a child of our own, so we absolutely need it. And then we said: We can also help a child," explains Yvonne. For the couple, the question was always: "Why not actually adopt?" adds Jonathan. The two are prepared: their guest room already has everything a baby needs. A cot, toys and a changing table.

Over 100 children put up for adoption each year

‘I never felt right’: DNA test reveals Melbourne woman introduced to wrong ‘biological mother’

Penny Mackieson finally has the name that feels right to her, nearly 60 years after she was inadvertently swapped with another baby when the infants were placed for adoption.

After mustering the courage to contact the person that records indicated was her biological mother, the Melbourne woman spent two decades getting to know and love the woman and her family.

But gnawing doubts, spurred by the fact she resembled no one in the family, led her and her believed-to-be mother to take DNA tests, which revealed they were not related.

Adoption Information Services then connected with an elderly Greek woman – Mackieson’s real biological mother.

After a 15-minute court hearing before the Victorian county court on Tuesday, Mackieson’s 33-year search for the truth was finalised.

‘I never felt right’: DNA test reveals Melbourne woman introduced to wrong ‘biological mother’

Penny Mackieson bonded for two decades with a woman she was told put her up for adoption

Penny Mackieson finally has the name that feels right to her, nearly 60 years after she was inadvertently swapped with another baby when the infants were placed for adoption.

After mustering the courage to contact the person that records indicated was her biological mother, the Melbourne woman spent two decades getting to know and love the woman and her family.

But gnawing doubts, spurred by the fact she resembled no one in the family, led her and her believed-to-be mother to take DNA tests, which revealed they were not related.

Adoption Information Services then connected with an elderly Greek woman – Mackieson’s real biological mother.

Meeting Federal Parliament, Brussels - on illegal adoptions

. Resolution to ‘save’ the stolen children. 

Public Prosecutor was present (Ms Grosjean)

 

The video of this even is black

 

Family waits in fear to bring adopted son home while Ukraine adoptions in limbo

American adoptions of children in Ukraine are in limbo due to the war, stopping many American parents from being united with their Ukrainian children.

16-year-old Sasha is supposed to be adopted and with his family in America right now. Instead, he is stuck watching a war happen right outside of his window.

"From the moment that he stepped through the doors at the airport, I was like, that is my son. And it really didn’t take any more than that. We didn’t need language; we didn’t need to bond. He was my son. And that was the end of it," says his soon-to-be adoptive mother, Jennifer Ruff.

That is how Jennifer describes her relationship with Sasha, a 16-year-old orphan in Ukraine, who already calls her mom.

“He fit in with our family immediately. So he is very silly and goofy, he is athletic. He loves sports, especially soccer and volleyball, those are his favorites," says Jennifer.