Nine French people born in Mali are filing a complaint against the Rayon de Soleil association for fraud and breach of trust. They accuse the adoption agency of having "circumvented the law" and lied to their families, biological and adoptive.

This Monday, June 8, nine French people of Malian origin filed a complaint with the Paris court for fraud, concealment and breach of trust , against the association Rayon de soleil for foreign children (RSEE) and their correspondent in Mali, Danielle Boudault, reveals Le Monde .

Falsified identity papers

What alarmed the nine plaintiffs, aged around 30, were first of all the inconsistencies around their identity papers. Pauline, interviewed by France 3 , shows that her date of birth on her different adoption papers differs.

For her part, Marie M., aged 32, realizes by consulting the archives in Mali concerning her adoption, that her civil status information corresponds to that of a man, aged the same age as her. "His adoptive mother was asked to choose his date of birth, there is 'blanco' on official documents " adds La Croix about his adoption.

We are the happy parents of two happy intercountry adopted children (Columbia, 1971 and Brazil, 1973). Two more families with excellent intercountry adoptions (Brazil and Sri Lanka) live in our neighborhood. Our objection to the opinion article End Adoption(15/2) is twofold. First of all, it radiates an overvaluation of the blood ties. The lack of these does not in any way stand in the way of a happy life together (marriage between two strangers, successful adoption and foster family situations). What's even more disturbing is that in all the publications devoted to this topic, only the negative results have received attention. To our knowledge, no proper research into successful adoptions has been done. As long as that doesn't happen: don't throw the baby out with the bathwater and keep the option of (intercountry) adoption.

Octa and Ernst Raaymakers

Amsterdam

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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.

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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.

Eddie Altenburg-Collin

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