ZEVENAAR - Sam van den Haak from Zevenaar, born in Sri Lanka, is suing the Dutch state. She was adopted in 1984, under false pretenses. “When I saw my adoption file, I was in shock.”

Together with twenty other adopted children, Van den Haak will send a letter to the Dutch state this week. Their adoption papers are forged, that is the conclusion of the Joustra Committee. The adoptions have caused them a lot of damage and they want to be compensated for that.

The date of birth in her passport is certainly not the day she was born, Sam learned from her Sri Lankan grandmother. To top it off, the date of birth in her passport is not the same one listed in her adoption file. "I feel sold and bought", says Sam.

She is working on a book about her life. Not born on my birthday, is the working title. "I think it is important that my story is told," says Sam She will be 40 in December of this year. Although, according to her passport, she celebrated her birthday earlier this month. "Future adoptive parents should learn from the mistakes made in the past. And I want my real date of birth in my passport."

How is it possible that these people passed the screening for adoption?

Bombay High Court

Janani Ashish Charitable Trust vs Frederic Christian ... on 8 July, 2021

Bench: D. S. Naidu

4. FAP No. 17 of 2021

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

Some maternity wards in Turkmenistan secretly offer abandoned babies for illegal adoption to prospective parents willing to pay a bribe to skip the normal bureaucracy and long wait that goes with the process, several sources tell RFE/RL.

The illegal deal often involves employees from registry offices who provide the new parents with false birth certificates that show them as the biological parents, the sources claim.

People with knowledge of the deals blame rampant corruption in the agencies involved in the legal adoption process for pushing some parents to a "cheaper and faster" option.

RFE/RL spoke to a married couple who admitted illegally adopting a baby in 2020 after paying about $4,300 in bribes. The couple, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they initially tried for three years to adopt a child legally, but without success.

Like many other countries, Turkmenistan requires prospective parents to provide documents from various agencies to ensure their suitability to adopt a child. The couple said they diligently assembled the necessary documents and submitted them, but each official involved in the process demanded bribes and deliberately delayed the process, the husband said.

Key policy documents

Australia’s key policies and documents for prospective adoptive parents and approved applicants are available below.

For information on the intercountry adoption process, including eligibility criteria, immigration requirements and post-adoption support, visit the Intercountry Adoption Australia website.

Protocol for Responding to Allegations of Illicit or Illegal Practices in Intercountry Adoption

The Protocol provides information and assistance to adoptees and adoptive families in circumstances where there have are allegations or concerns about illicit or illegal practices, including:

Raj HC | Is Juvenile Justice Act totally foreign to the concept of “right of hearing” given to the complainant/CICL in bail applications? Court examines

Rajasthan High Court: Sandeep Mehta, J., allowed the revision application, granted bail and set aside the impugned orders.

The facts of the case are such that the petitioner has a child ‘X’ son who is a young boy of less than 16 years in conflict with law and been confined for the offences under Sections 341 and 395 of the IPC and is lodged at the Child Observation Home, Dungarpur. The bail application was preferred on his behalf by his natural guardian (father) Laxman under Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice Act was rejected by the Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board, Dungarpur which was challenged by an appeal under Section 101 of the Juvenile Justice Act which was also rejected. Assailing these two orders instant revision application was preferred under Section 397 of the CrPC read with Section 102 of the Juvenile Justice Act through his natural guardian.

Counsel for the State submitted that the revision cannot be decided in absence of a notice to the complainant respondent 2 Mani Lal.

Sections 12, 101 and 102 of the Juvenile Justice Act are the provisions dealing with the prayer for bail made on behalf of the CICL at different stages

There are structural problems in youth protection that politics in The Hague cannot solve. Erroneous estimates by aid workers have enormous consequences in this region, according to files and conversations with those involved.

For four years, a 50-year-old mother from Neder-Betuwe fought against the placement of her two children, teenage sons. They are now back. 'The goals have been achieved', was the message of the last youth protector when her sons came back to live at home.

It caused great surprise to the mother and her lawyer, who fought against the custodial placement for years. Because in fact there was nothing different in the situation with the mother than when the children were removed from the home. "And now the children are traumatized by youth care," says the mother.

The family experienced first-hand how great the problems are in youth protection. In the file that ensured that the children were out of the house for a long time, it was stated, among other things, that the woman is mentally retarded, says Monique Gerson, the mother's lawyer at the time. ,,That is not true. Very strange that it ended up in the files, without it ever really being investigated.”

Gerson thus points out a problem that is seen by more lawyers. Factual inaccuracies will no longer be corrected. "Once something is in a file, people often fail to do proper research."

Gera ter Meulen, Knowledge Bureau ter Meulen, for Foster Care and Adoption

Wereldkinderen has been a member of EurAdopt for many years, a partnership between European adoption organizations. These organizations try to maintain high ethical standards, exchange information and sometimes collaborate on common problems. Such a common problem is adoption aftercare in the search for origin. However, this aftercare is becoming increasingly difficult, according to an inventory I did for EurAdopt at 24 EurAdopt adoption organizations in 11 countries.

For this inventory, we first checked what it says about aftercare:

According to the Hague Adoption Convention

The Hague Adoption Convention appears to oblige the Central Authorities to promote aftercare; the CAs may delegate aftercare to public or adoption organizations, but they remain accountable. Adoptees must be helped, among other things, to find their roots and be able to access their adoption information.

For 60 years, Norway has patted itself on the shoulder and carried out more than 20,000 adoptions across continents. The adoptees' cultural heritage and emphasis on genetics are usually left at the airport in the country of birth. As they land in Norway, they are Norwegian-born.

The whole adoption system is colored by this attitude.

The complexity of raising children without belonging to their country of birth and cultural heritage, and at the same time asking them questions about whether they want to return is unlike anything else. If you look closely at the adoption industry and life as an adoptee, you no longer wonder if trauma and dissociations occur.

The assimilated conception of reality, which in the technical language is referred to as an "adoption fog", requires concrete measures and a great deal against breaking out.

Openness about feelings related to one's own adoption and thoughts about the industry is an important factor in this process.

PANJIM: Last month, the police machinery led an unstoppable hunt amidst a heavy downpour to trace a toddler, abducted by an unidentified woman from the government-run Goa Medical College and Hospital.

The case was cracked but what unfolded the serious crime of separating a breastfeeding mother from her child shook the conscience of the State. Obsession with a son, usually unheard of in a State with 87.40 per cent literacy rate, was the sole reason why the woman took the crime route. This has triggered a debate across various platforms.

We, however, look at how in Goa there is alleged illegal adoption amidst instances of unwed mothers or financially-poor families handing over their newborns – irrespective of the gender – to wealthy couples.

About four years ago, the Goa Police was shown the real side of illegal adoption following a complaint lodged by Victim Assistance Unit (VAU). A Goan couple living in the UK had illegally adopted a girl child from a daily-wage earning couple hailing from Karnataka.

Ironically, the couple who illegally adopted the child did not take her with them to UK but instead handed over her custody to the sister of one of the accused living in Goa. The child, excellent in academics and sports, was ill-treated and physically abused. An investigation unearthed the dark side of what can also be termed as smuggling of innocent children. Unfortunately, the child’s biological parents refused to take her back and she was later given in the custody of the Child Welfare Committee.

Guam could benefit from the streamlining the adoption process here, especially foster children who need homes and people who want to bring these children into their homes and families.

Department of Youth Affairs Director Melanie Brennan, who currently has oversight of Child protective Services, has said just a few foster children go up for adoption. There are 432 children in different types of foster care placement, most with relatives.

Bill 108 and Bill 109, introduced by Sen. Mary Torres, would involve independent adoption agencies in the Bureau of Social Services Administration's process for finding children homes. The aim is “easing the burden of Guam’s already-strained foster care system."

Adoptive parents holding the feet of their baby.

Bill 108 would allow adoption agencies to help in the screening and placement of children available for adoption. Bill 109 would give adoption agencies involvement in the placement of newborns given up through the Newborn Infant Safe Haven Act.