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.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SERVICE BY-LAWS (Adopted at the 2021 Extraordinary International Council, 7 April, Teleconference)

MIDDELBURG - Aggression in a thrift store in Zeeland. Terre des Hommes has decided to close its doors. Several customers at the door had not made an appointment but wanted to go inside. They started throwing things at employees.

One of the volunteers has already received a shopping basket. Another angry customer deliberately broke crockery, says Omroep Zeeland. A declaration may still be made. “We are still looking at that, but the question is whether it makes sense. Who do you report against? We are a thrift store and so far had no reason to buy a security camera, ”says a spokesperson for the store.

The dissatisfaction with the corona rules, imposed from The Hague, is great, according to the spokesman. “We too are forced to keep shopping by appointment. This means that you book at least four hours in advance. Volunteers not only have to deal with misunderstanding but also with angry reactions. That cannot be the intention! ”

'Unheard of'

The incident with broken crockery turns out to be the last straw for the thrift store. “Unfortunately, that is the consequence of the behavior of some customers. Our volunteers are there day in and day out for a good cause. To deal with their safety in this way is unheard of. ”

In her new book, “American Baby: A Mother, a Child, an the Shadow History of Adoption”, journalist Gabrielle Glaser exposes the secret adoption system in postwar America that exploited generations of women and children and the ongoing efforts to get answers for victims.

Born on a baby farm , stolen from your mother, or traded by criminals. That is the past of many adopted children from abroad. The Dutch government knew about it, but there is no compensation to find out the truth. Some adoptees are fed up and go out of their way to find answers.

A group of adoptees has sent a statement in which they hold the Ministry of Justice and Security liable for damage caused by illegal adoption procedures of children from abroad. The adopted children hope for a financial compensation. Among other things, they want to pay for the searches for their biological families.

The Joustra Committee published a report in February which showed that the Dutch government was aware of abuses in adoptions from abroad between 1967 and 1998. The government then apologized - to the surprise of many adopted children. Lawyer Dewi Deijle, herself adopted from Indonesia, has been campaigning for the rights of adoptees in the Netherlands for years. "I did shed a tear that day," says Deijle.

But then came the next step. "If you apologize, you also have to take responsibility." And according to Deijle, that should be in the form of compensation for all adoptees. Minister Sander Dekker (Legal Protection) wants to set up a knowledge center and has come up with a subsidy scheme for organizations that support adopted children, but financial support for all individual adoptees is not yet available.

Deijle talked to Dekker: 'He believes that the Dutch taxpayer should not have to pay for this. While I think that the Netherlands is all about solidarity. I don't know who my biological mother is, but I was most likely trafficked by criminals. We are solving crimes, why do we have to pay for it ourselves? '