New Delhi: In a major development, a Delhi court has allowed a Muslim prisoner to adopt a child. The Patiala House court ordered jail superintendent to take the man to the adoption office for completing formalities where his signs were required.

The court of Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana said no one can't be barred from adopting a child just because one believes in Islam.

Earlier, the prosecution had opposed the plea arguing Islam does not have any provision to allow a Muslim to adopt a child, according to a report in Hindi daily Hindustan.

The judge said that a person can not be denied the right to adopt a child just because he comes from Muslim community. Everyone has an equal right to adopt a child.

A jailed Muslim man had approached the court through his lawyer Kausar Khan seeking parole to go to Haryana's Nuh district to complete adoption formalities.

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Pieter Omtzigt has asked parliamentary questions about Insiya, who was kidnapped in 2016. Her father, Shehzad Hemani, had his daughter kidnapped in 2016 and took her to India, where she still resides, against her mother's will. The questions come at a precarious moment: the Netherlands will receive the Indian president next week.

A year and a half ago, Hemani was sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison for having the girl kidnapped from her grandmother's home in Watergraafsmeer and taken to India illegally. A cousin of Hemani was sentenced to four years in prison for involvement, but he fled abroad.

“The kidnapping was violent and unheard of,” the judge said at the time. “A family life has been destroyed. The effects are difficult to measure. For Insiya's mother, it is a never-ending grieving process. Insiya is also separated from the rest of her family.” India has been asked to extradite Hemani, but has so far refused to do so.

Since Insiya has been in India, her father has stopped contacting her mother Nadia Rashid . The girl's parents were divorced before the kidnapping and had a conflict about parental authority. After the kidnapping, Rashid saw her daughter only a few times via Skype.

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When Mariel Vos (39) was four months old, she was adopted. When she was eleven she ended up in a foster family, where she lived until she was seventeen. Mariël: “People often expect that everything will be fine in a foster family. But that is not always the case.”

Mariel's adoptive parents were gifted people. They couldn't really take care of her, so Mariel had to deal with mental abuse. “I kept hearing that they regretted adopting me. They thought I was very expensive and wanted more value for money. As a six-year-old girl, I knew exactly what I had cost. I was also beaten by my parents. It was a very tough situation.”

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When Mariel was nine years old, she ended up in day foster care. Out of school, around three o'clock, she went to a foster home and also stayed there for dinner. Then she was taken back to her adoptive parents. “At a certain point I could see the differences between my adoptive parents and me more and more. Actually, I took care of them, instead of them taking care of me. As a child you are very loyal to your parents. I really loved them, they were my mom and dad, even though their upbringing was totally wrong.”

Two years later, Mariel was then eleven years old, she was permanently removed from home. An experience she will never forget. “In the morning my adoptive parents told me that in an hour I would leave for my day foster care family. I totally panicked. I cried and apologized a hundred times for everything I did wrong in life. I so wanted to stay with them. I promised that I would always be sweet and caring. It was a traumatic event. In retrospect, I also think it was a low point in my life.” In the period after that, Mariel suffered from homesickness. She wanted so badly to go back to her parents. “I also noticed that I found it very difficult to act on the love of the foster family. These people were nice, but I was scared to death for doing something wrong. I was afraid that I would have to leave again.”

Nonprofit overcomes previous group's mental health obstacles to publish translation of doctor's memoir

After recovering from a series of setbacks, a new Oregon City-based nonprofit organization for adoptees has bounced back by publishing the memoir of an award-winning Korean doctor and continuing to support people of Korean descent in the United States.

Canby resident Jodi Gill, who serves as president of the new Adoptee Group, has traveled to Korea over a dozen times and has had the opportunity to visit the orphanage where she lived before being adopted in April 1976. Previously, Gill served on the board of the Gide Foundation, an organization with the same mission that had to dissolve due to the mental health conditions of two of its co-founders, one of whom was identified as misappropriating funds.

Gill said that mental health conditions and addiction among Korean-American adoptees is unfortunately common, and it's estimated that 20% of them struggle with these symptoms on a daily basis.

"Despite the mental health disruptions, the co-founders hold a place of value and respect for where we are today," Gill said. "The Adoptee Group is fulfilling what the Gide Foundation wanted to accomplish at a turbo speed despite the setbacks that come with working in a community where pain lingers."

A major church has apologised to a mother who was one of hundreds of young women coerced into giving up their newborns for adoption in the "baby scoop" era. Nicholas Jones was in the room for the historic meeting.

Fifty-seven years after her baby was taken, the Bishop of Auckland stood in Maggie Wilkinson's living room and apologised.

"You were sent to a place that should have offered you support and care…you received exactly the opposite," said Ross Bay, Bishop of Auckland for the Anglican Church, which was responsible for the unwed mothers' home where Wilkinson was sent at 19.

She begged to keep her daughter, but her newborn was removed and an adoption arranged.

Vivienne found her mum as a teenager, after 18 years of feeling like an outsider.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has held that merely because a man happened to be a Muslim and governed by personal laws in various issues like adoption, he cannot be debarred from availing the rights conferred upon him by general and benevolent legislation.

The observations came while granting custody parole to an accused to visit the concerned officer in Nuh, Haryana, for signing the adoption papers. The public prosecutor had opposed the custody parole on the grounds that in Islam, adoption is legally not permissible. He had said that personal laws were applicable in issues related to adoption and that the very ground for custody parole was specious.

Advocate Qausar Khan, appearing for the accused, had argued that under personal laws, adoption was not permissible in Islam but under the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, even a Muslim is entitled to adopt a child and the rights of the accused cannot be nagged on the ground that he is facing trial in a case.

Additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana said, “I concur with the defence counsel that merely because the applicant/accused happens to be Muslim and governed by personal laws on various issues, he cannot be debarred from availing the rights conferred upon him by general and benevolent legislation like Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000.”

The court directed the jail superintendent to take the accused on custody parole to the office concerned on April 1 and make all necessary arrangements in this regard.

NGOs are 'deeply alarmed' by applications pending from the US and Italy without adequate child protection measures in place

Cambodia will shortly resume child adoptions after a decade-long hiatus imposed amid controversy over allegations that not all infants were orphans and some were stolen.

The Social Affairs Ministry has confirmed adoptions are pending to the United States and Italy, raising the alarm among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) seeking child protection norms of international standards.

“We fear these decisions will lead to more families being irreparably torn apart by a poorly regulated system that has failed to protect children’s best interests in the past,” said rights group Licadho in a statement, adding it was “deeply alarmed.”

It said Cambodia sent 3,696 children abroad for adoption between 1998 and 2011 before suspending foreign adoptions following evidence of fraud and corruption.

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Chermaine Leysner’s life changed in 2012, when she received a letter from the Dutch tax authority demanding she pay back her child care allowance going back to 2008. Leysner, then a student studying social work, had three children under the age of 6. The tax bill was over €100,000.

“I thought, ‘Don’t worry, this is a big mistake.’ But it wasn’t a mistake. It was the start of something big,” she said.

The ordeal took nine years of Leysner’s life. The stress caused by the tax bill and her mother’s cancer diagnosis drove Leysner into depression and burnout. She ended up separating from her children’s father. “I was working like crazy so I could still do something for my children like give them some nice things to eat or buy candy. But I had times that my little boy had to go to school with a hole in his shoe,” Leysner said.

Leysner is one of the tens of thousands of victims of what the Dutch have dubbed the “toeslagenaffaire,” or the child care benefits scandal.

In 2019 it was revealed that the Dutch tax authorities had used a self-learning algorithm to create risk profiles in an effort to spot child care benefits fraud.