A man is about to leave for China for the first time . In the hall of Zaventem airport he meets the eight other Belgians with whom he will spend the next two weeks. In total six families flew to Beijing at the end of July 1994.

After a day's layover, they leave again, this time to Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in the south of the country. From Changsha, the group traveled by bus to the countryside. Since his departure from Brussels, the man has filmed everything, including the endless fields and the kilometers of journeys through desolate landscapes.

After dropping off their belongings at the hotel and completing some administrative formalities at the notary, the families finally arrive at the Yueyang orphanage. The place has faded, the paint is peeling off the walls. From the bus, the man films the arrival in the courtyard of the building, as well as the waiting that follows. Youqine, then eight months old, is finally introduced to him and she crawls into his arms for the first time. The nannies from the orphanage then bring the other children. Six girls were adopted that day. Youqine's father was one of the first Belgians to adopt a child from China.

In 2017, nearly a quarter of a century later, time and memory erased many things, but the records of these adoptive families have remained completely intact. For Youqine, the period of rejection towards her country of origin has come to an end, and a time of questions seems to have come: "For years I had a conflicted relationship with China, I did not want to return at all. I was terrified of it, but when I 23, I instinctively felt I was ready, I think it's something mature, wanting to know where you are in your life."

Youqine Lefèvre had just graduated from the École Supérieure d'Arts Appliqués in Vevey, Switzerland. She studied photography there - after obtaining a bachelor's degree at the École de Recherche Graphique (ERG) in Brussels. It has also been a while since she " Far from home", a series about children placed in a home in the Swiss mountains and separated from their parents for various reasons. After her first major project, Youqine feels ready to embark on a new, more personal project. The images that her father made the basis of this project in 1994. It is the end of October 2017, and now it is her turn to leave for China for the first time.As she gets on the plane, Youqine realizes that with this future photo project she mainly looking for meaning.

HEUSDEN - Tineke Couwenberg and Bieni Beekhuizen from Heusden have it all done; foster daughter Ilse (24) is now also their daughter on paper. Under Dutch law, adoption of adult (foster) children is not possible at all. In order to get it done, the Heusdens had to invoke the European Convention on Human Rights.

"It was the most beautiful day of her life for her," says Tineke Couwenberg (70) about Ilse. She can legally call her her daughter since Wednesday 14 July. Of course, the same also applies to her wife Bieni Beekhuizen (74). That day, the multiple chamber of the Bossche court ruled that they - and no one else - are Ilse's parents.

There is also the feeling. And that's miles behind

But what a struggle it has been. In fact, they have become too accustomed to fighting against the intractability, opposition and injustice of institutions in the field of youth care and foster care. Tineke and Bieni know very well that they have won their last fight. That it's over. But that's the mind. There is also such a thing as feeling ... and it is still miles behind.

For now we don't do anything anymore. For now it's always Sunday with us

However, judge reprimands the U.S. citizens for trying to adopt the child under a wrong law

The Delhi High Court has declared a Christian couple, both U.S. citizens, as ‘adoptive parents’ to a minor girl born out of Hindu parents while reprimanding them for trying to adopt the child under a wrong law.

The High Court reiterated that Christian and Muslim couples could not adopt a Hindu child under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (HAMA), as was sought to be done in this case.

“The Adoption Deed drawn up under the HAMA is invalid as the parties are Christians and not Hindus,” Justice Asha Menon said, taking note of the fact that the child, now more than 6-years-old, had been under the custody of the adoptive parents since her birth.

Justice Menon said the child was being well taken care of by the foster parents and their family and hence “there is no cause to remove the child from their charge and custody.”

Whether children from a second marriage would have a share in ancestral property? The Supreme Court issued notice in a special leave petition which raised this issue.

In this case, the petitioner had approached the Apex Court challenging a High Court observation that the children should not inherit a share in the property of their grandmother since they were born out of 'the second wife'.

While issuing notice, the bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy also noticed that a larger question as to whether in the ancestral property, the said children from a second marriage would have a share is pending consideration in Ravanasiddappa & Anr. vs.Mallikarjun & Ors, (2011) 11 SCC 1. The matter be listed after the judgement in the aforementioned case is pronounced, the court said.

Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, provides that any child of a marriage which is null and void under section 11, who would have been legitimate if the marriage had been valid, shall be legitimate. However, Section 16(3) provides that it shall not be construed as conferring upon any child of a marriage which is null and void or which is annulled by a decree of nullity under section 12, any rights in or to the property of any person, other than the parents, in any case where, but for the passing of this Act, such child would have been incapable of possessing or acquiring any such rights by reason of his not being the legitimate child of his parents.

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MUMBAI: Abandoned twice by his parents, a baby boy who had become

the cynosure of all at Juhu police station now has cops fielding inquiries

about his adoption.

Seven-month-old Yash (name changed) was born at a public hospital in

December 2020. His mother was referred there from another nursing

Ahmedabad: Chandkheda police investigating a case of abduction bid of an 11-month-old baby and possible human trafficking

have started tracking Prashant Kamble, a resident of Pune, as one of the primary accused of the case. Bindu Sharma, the nanny

who was apprehended for the offence, was probed on Friday where she put all the blame on Prashant and claimed that she

was innocent.

“She maintained she did not know the scheme by Prashant and sending her picture with the baby was a mistake. We are yet to

A mum forced to give up her son ten days after giving birth at the age of 14 has been reunited with him 52 years later.

Lynne Oakes’s childhood was shattered when she fell pregnant to an older man.

And was sent away to a mother and baby home because “my parents just couldn’t handle it”

After having her son in 1968 she spent a precious few days with him before he was “snatched from her arms” for adoption.

Lynne, 68, who was the youngest mum in the home, recalled the terrible grief of losing her child after taking to motherhood immediately.

AHMEDABAD: Chandkheda police investigating a case of abduction bid of an 11-month-old baby and possible human trafficking have started tracking

Prashant Kamble, a resident of Pune, as one of the primary accused of the case. Bindu Sharma, the nanny who was apprehended for the offence,

was probed on Friday where she put all the blame on Prashant and claimed that she was innocent.

“She maintained she did not know the scheme by Prashant and sending her picture with the baby was a mistake. We are yet to ascertain whether

she was part of any previous incidents,” said an investigator. “We have contacted Maharashtra Police for their assistance in tracking and

A medical tech company in east China is under investigation on suspicion that it's a front for an illegal baby-trafficking business, the city of Weifang's Public Security Bureau said.

Local police arrested the company's head on Monday after anti-trafficking advocate Shangguan Zhengyi conducted a sting operation with the help of Xia Ruchu from The Paper, a Shanghai news outlet.

The suspect, a woman in her 40s identified as Sister Zhu, is accused of connecting clients who wanted to be parents with pregnant Chinese women looking to sell off their newborns, Xia reported.

A newborn may be sold for as much as $20,000 in the area, said Xia, who helped Shangguan with his investigation. Zhu served as the middleman for these transactions and said she was consulted by 20 to 30 clients a year, The Paper said.

She also offered to help buyers arrange birth certificates for the babies and had a system of swapping the names of her pregnant customers to muddle documentation of the birth, the report said. The goal was to ensure the baby's biological parents couldn't find and reclaim their child if they ever changed their minds.

AHMEDABAD: Had they been even 24 hours late in finding out that their

nanny was a fraud, a family from Chandkheda would have lost their infant

to an interstate child trafficking ring. The nursemaid they had employed

this May had plotted to kidnap and sell the 11-month-old baby girl to a

couple in Pune.