Prohibition of individual adoptions

Individual international adoptions are prohibited . This provision is immediately applicable.

Henceforth, all candidates for adoption holding approval, a mandatory prerequisite for any process, must be accompanied by an organization authorized for adoption (OAA) or by the French Adoption Agency (AFA) in their international adoption procedures, including in the case of intra-family adoptions.

A derogation is provided for candidates for adoption holding an authorization valid on February 22, 2022 (date of publication of the law), and whose adoption file has been registered with the Mission of the international adoption (MAI) no later than August 22, 2022 (within six months after the promulgation of the law).

If you find yourself in this situation, the MAI invites you to register as soon as possible .

Fatmeh (24) was born in Bethlehem. When her biological parents find out that she has Epidermolysis Bullosa (also known as butterfly disease) , they give her up for adoption to Dutch foster parents.

“I used to think: why did my parents drop me in a children's hospital. But afterwards I am very grateful to them for that," says Fatmeh in Je Zal Het Maar Hebbben .

BANDAGED FROM HEAD TO TOE

“My biological parents saw that something was wrong and they didn't know what to do with it,” says Fatmeh. “Then they asked another organization if they could take care of me.” When she was almost two years old, a Dutch couple took her into their family.

Due to her illness, Fatmeh is deficient in proteins. This makes her skin extremely vulnerable and open wounds can arise out of nowhere. She has to be bandaged from head to toe every day to prevent infections, with the only exceptions being her neck and head.

Defence for Children International (DCI)

Defence for Children International (DCI) is a leading international, non-government organisation, focussing on child rights.

Founded in 1979, DCI has been promoting and protecting children’s rights at the global, national and regional level for over 40 years.

DCI’s mandate is to ensure the effective implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child everywhere.

DCI’s vision is that children, as human beings, are able to pursue a life in which they can enjoy their human rights with dignity, in a just and responsible society.

NO KIDDING My terminally ill sister has asked me to adopt her three kids – people think I’m selfish for refusing but it’s MY life

PICTURE the scene - you've barely spoken to your sister in 10 years when she gets in contact to say she's suffering with a terminal illness.

And if that wasn't a big bombshell, she's also asking you to legally adopt her three kids - who you've never met - when she passes away.

If you found yourself in this scenario, would you A. agree to anything she asks out of sympathy or B. put your own happiness first?

Well one woman who is facing this dilemma in real life has sparked fierce debate online after admitting she's opted for the latter option.

A Texas couple marooned in a blizzard of Ukrainian bureaucracy narrowly escaped the embattled nation this week — with their newly-adopted son near death and thousands of Russian troops massed at the border.

Four-year-old Ruslan, who Kelci and Theron Jagge saved from a Dickensian orphanage in Eastern Ukraine, was suffering from severe pneumonia and malnourishment as they frantically tried to get him back to their native San Antonio.

“If we had been stuck there one day more, I don’t know if he would have made it,” new mom Kelci Jagge, 33, told The Post.

Ruslan, who has cerebral palsy and has required a feeding tube, was also suffering severe withdrawal symptoms after being treated with opioids by the orphanage.

“He never cried. Later we realized it was because he was sedated,” Kelci Jagge said.

The Allahabad High Court has observed that for adopting a child, a marriage certificate is not a sina-quo-non and even a single parent can adopt a child under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956.The Bench of Justice Dr. Kaushal Jayendra Thaker and Justice Vivek Varma observed thus while dealing with a plea filed by a Transgender person and her husband who sought a direction upon the...

In their article Put an end to adoption (15/2), Pien Bos and Will van Sebille call on the temporary stop of intercountry adoption of children to be converted into a permanent one. Based on research among distance parents (usually mothers), legally correct adoptions should also stop, they argued. By signing a legal document, a mother does not become the ex-mother.

I was shocked by this, because drawing a definitive line under adoption has a significant impact. For example, for gay and straight couples who cannot have children and who really want to. The temporary stop on adoption is understandable in order to reconsider: how can we ensure that adoption is always done carefully in the future? Of course, taking into account the mother and the child itself.

I therefore think that adoption should be possible again in the future, but only from so-called safe countries, I am thinking of the OECD countries. The OECD now has 38 countries that subscribe to the principles of the market economy, the rule of law and (not unimportant in this regard) respect for human rights. In this way we can hopefully meet the justified concerns and the fervent wish for an adopted child.

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Getting married, becoming a mother, leading a happy existence and then suddenly discovering, thanks to social media, that "I am not the person I thought I was for 40 years". It is the story of Enrica Locatelli, a young woman who lives in Bergamo whose life "was turned upside down a couple of months ago, when I learned that she was kidnapped in Paraguay a few months after her birth to be sold to an Italian couple".

I involved

Those who "I had always thought of as my real parents had actually gotten me by paying money." But to whom? An alleged "illegal child abduction" which, according to the complaint presented by the 40-year-old at the Prosecutor's Office in Bergamo, involves a Veronese missionary priest, Don Attilio Cordioli. The latter, who is originally from Mozzecane and belongs to the Redemptorists , denies any suspicion, claiming that it is "only lies", "false accusations made by the devil". This is how the Veronese priest reached the diocesan sanctuary of the Madonna del Perpetuo Soccorso dei Redemptoristi di Bussolengo on the microphones of the show Le Iene su Italia 1 :unattainable as he has already returned to Paraguay, he often travels commuting between South America and Verona . His cell phone? Don Cordioli does not have a cell phone, he never had one ».

New details

Those who, on the other hand, did not shy away from adding new details to her incredible story is Enrica flanked by her husband Fabio : theirs, they say, until recently was a family where "every piece seemed to be in the right place", where "everything ran for the better until, from one day to the next - Enrica recalls - I knew I was actually another person ». She thus discovering that "I was born from another family that I have now finally met, that I have ten brothers that I didn't even know existed". For 40 years, Enrica has in fact believed "erroneously" to "be the daughter of Rosa Bardelle , a housewife originally from Cavarzere nel Veneziano, and of the industrialist Piero Locatelli from Bergamo. I'mboth passed away before I learned that in reality they weren't the ones who brought me into the world. " The turning point dates back to two months ago when Enrica learned that “immediately after her birth, I was stolen from my real parents who had brought me into the world in Pilar, Paraguay. My twin brother has suffered the same fate and I take the opportunity - it is Enrica's appeal - to invite anyone who knows something, to help me find him or in any case to hear from him. They told us that he too could have been kidnapped like me and then sold to another Italian couple ».

Arrested include the mother and a couple from Madurai

Virudhunagar District Police have arrested nine persons in connection with illegal sale of a one-year-old baby girl on Thursday.

The police said besides the baby’s mother, grandfather and a childless couple from Madurai who adopted it, two of their relatives and three persons offering matrimonial service — Karthik, Maheswari and Nandakumar, all from Erode district — were arrested.

The police said the baby’s mother lost her husband sometime back. As she was raising the baby with her family’s support, her family members started looking for an alliance for her second marriage.

“It was then that Karthik, who was approached for the alliance, reportedly told the woman’s father that it would be difficult to find an alliance for a woman with a child. He advised them to sell the baby,” a police officer said.