PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday supported a resolution in the provincial assembly to frame specific laws and procedures regarding the adoption of children in the province.

Member of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party Nighat Yasmin Orakzai moved the resolution seeking a legal mechanism and cover for the protection of adoptees, especially shelterless children.

The treasury and opposition benches supported the resolution in the session, which was presided over by Deputy Speaker Mahmood Jan.

Ms Orakzai complained that the province didn’t have any specific law for adoptions.

She said verbal agreements were made between adopters and hospitals or private child protection bodies, while the adopted children were handed over to the families without the checking of their financial and social backgrounds.

More than two months ago, the cabinet temporarily halted foreign adoptions due to abuses . In South Africa, one of the countries from which children were adopted, they do not identify with it.

The Campher family's wall is full of pictures of babies and toddlers. Over the past seven years, the couple Barbara and Thinus have cared for nearly a hundred children in their home. Three children were adopted by the Dutch. They are currently taking care of six children.

"We keep the shelter small so that it feels like a family," says Thinus Campher. "If we go on an outing, we can all go together, that is not possible if we would take care of more children. Six is ??our max."

To the Netherlands

Very soon there will be one child less. "A 6-year-old boy whom we have been taking care of for years is going to the Netherlands." For the time being he is the last of this reception family. The only reason his adoption goes ahead is that he was already in the adoption process when intercountry adoption was suspended.

[Adoption under Juvenile Justice Act] Child born out of live-in relationship to be treated as child born to married couple: Kerala High Court

The Court held that a woman in a live-in-relationship, acknowledging the biological father of the child, out of such a relationship, will have to be treated as a married woman for the purpose of Juvenile Justice Act.

In a decision of seminal significance, the Kerala High Court has held that a child born out a live-in relationship and acknowledged so by the mother of the child, would have to be treated as a child born to a married couple for the purposes of surrendering a child for adoption under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 [JJ Act).

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NEW DELHI: The Centre has told the Delhi HC that foreigners registered

as OCI (overseas citizens of India) cardholders because of their marriage

to Indian nationals cease to enjoy that status after their divorce.

Defending one such decision, the MHA informed the HC that the move of

the Indian embassy in Brussels, Belgium, asking a Belgian woman to

Adoption of child by single parents: “If a woman feels she is nothing without the support of a man that is the failure of the system” The Kerala High Court quoted during the hearing of a case in regard to surrendering a child for adoption.

Justices A Muhamed Mustaque and Dr Kauser Edappagath of the bench were faced with a petition by an unmarried couple who lived together, reclaiming their child who was surrendered for adoption previously. The court granted its’s decision in favour of the couple and handed them their child back. The decision was ruled against the Child Welfare Committee that inquired into their marriage status.

“Once it is found that the child is born to a couple, for all practical purposes of JJ Act, inquiry must be initiated as though the child belonged to a married couple” The Kerala HC said.

What was the case?

Anitha and John (names changed to preserve privacy) were in a live-in relationship when she got pregnant. Anitha claimed John to be the biological father. Their relationship was not accepted by their parents as they belonged to separate religions.

New Delhi: Five people, including a couple, were in

connection with the alleged kidnapping of a three-year-old

girl in outer Delhi’s Raj Park, police said on Friday. Ravi (26), his

wife Santosh (25), Mahesh (25), Guddan (26) and Ram Prasad

(36) were arrested and the child was safely and

Teleza is Nicole van Elteren's daughter. She runs a children's home and development projects in Malawi. Teleza was pressed into her arms when she was a few days old. The biological mother was dead, the father unknown and Teleza herself turned out to be critically ill. She had four holes in the heart that would kill her without surgery.

Adoption

Because the life-saving operations were not carried out in Africa, but in the Netherlands, Nicole decided to adopt the child. That's how Teleza would become Dutch. But where Malawi recognized the adoption in June 2020, the Netherlands did not. Malawi was seen as a weak adoption country, because Malawi's law states that adopted children in principle keep the right to an inheritance from their biological parents.

Although Teleza has no biological parents, the Netherlands stuck to that rule. Teleza was denied a passport, so she was not entitled to health insurance. Because the baby was getting sicker and was in danger of dying in the meantime, Nicole decided to travel to the Netherlands in September to have Teleza operated on uninsured. Almost 110,000 euros was raised through crowdfunding to finance the very expensive interventions.

Judge

Assistant Minister for Children and Families, Michelle Landry, has today announced Relationships Australia South Australia (RASA) as the successful provider delivering the Morrison Government's $4.75 million redesigned Intercountry Adoptee and Family Support Service (ICAFSS).

RASA will be the lead agency delivering the ICAFSS over the next five years, from 1 July 2021, following last year's competitive grant round.

The intercountry adoption community will continue to benefit from the Government's investment to support the delivery of this important service.

Assistant Minister Landry said the redesigned ICAFSS, led by RASA, will provide the intercountry adoption community with access to free, nation-wide intercountry adoption-specific support, including therapeutic care, community capacity building and a new small grants program.

"As part of the redesigned service, people with lived experience of intercountry adoption will have an opportunity to have their say on how the program is designed, implemented and delivered, so it meets their needs."

Student Danai Deblaere is the daughter of an Indian adopted child. She knows well how difficult it is to grow up in a white world where no one looks like you. The problems that arise as a result can be avoided by banning intercountry adoption, she writes.

22November 1976, Daisy, a two year old Indian girl arrives at Zaventem. She was adopted by a Belgian family with a great desire to have children, which unfortunately cannot be fulfilled in a natural way. Daisy's adoptive parents already have one biological daughter but they want to expand their family.

Daisy comes from a Missionaries for Charity orphanage in Mumbai. Daisy's adoptive parents search for their adopted child among the arrived children. They don't find her immediately. The child in the photo that they received from adoption agency De Joyzaaiers is nowhere to be found.

In the end, only one child remained of all adopted children: Daisy. She was not the girl in the photo, but she turned out to be the adopted child of the family in question. Daisy was two years old, but she looked much younger. Besides, she was not healthy. An extra day in India could have killed her.

Fortunately, Daisy didn't die, otherwise I wouldn't be able to write this opinion piece. Because I am her daughter.

Dozens of letters sent to the Taoiseach reveal the deep pain felt by many survivors of mother and baby homes who are still denied access to information about who they are.

Some 50 people contacted Micheál Martin after the publication of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.

Many of those called on the Government to urgently publish a bill that would give them access to their birth certs and other personal information.

Children's minister Roderic O'Gorman had initially indicated that a tracing and information bill would be brought to Cabinet by the end of March, however, legal issues have delayed this and it is now expected that this will discussed by ministers in the coming weeks.

One person who contacted the Taoiseach said that there are thousands of people who are seeking to "fill in at least some of the banks" about who they are.