Antonin Maindron, who came to France at the age of three and a half, thought his biological parents were dead. He will meet them in Ethiopia, his country of origin. Testimony.

In his dining room, seated on a chair, he firmly holds his Christmas present. A photo album retracing his childhood given to him by his mother Nelly. These memories of youth will soon travel to Africa in the house where the young man was born in the mid-90s.

He puts the book down and starts. He has the impression of "reciting" his story, of appearing detached in the eyes of his interlocutors. The fire is inside. He hesitates and recovers: "It's a crazy thing, it's unimaginable. »Adopted in France at the age of three and a half, Antonin Maindron will be reunited with his biological parents , whom he believed to be dead, in Ethiopia in a few days.

From La Gaubretière , a town nestled in the Vendée bocage where he has lived for 22 years, he delivers a poignant testimony . A rare word that he also wants full of hope for uprooted children.

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APPEAL: DID YOU KNOW MY BIOLOGICAL FATHER?

After 17 years, donor child Steph Raeymaekers finally finds her - unfortunately - deceased biological father. She launches a call: have you ever known him?

Antwerp, January 2, 2021 - After a search of 17 years, Steph Raeymaekers (41), chairman of Donorkinderen vzw and board member of the Donor Detectives, has finally managed to find out her real origins. She did this by working out the family trees of her closest DNA Matches that she had on the MyHeritage database . An additional DNA test with close relatives confirmed what she had suspected for a year.

“My biological father is called Marc Folens. His name and identity belong to me. Everyone has only 1 biological father: he is mine. It gives relief to finally be able to name and name him. ” said an emotional Steph.

“I searched and fought for so long, struggling through the maze that I didn't build myself. Today I can say with a certainty of 99.98% I am his biological daughter. My origin is no longer a question, it has become an answer. ”

The work, made in black and white and with a realistic aesthetic, is based on a real life story. The protagonist is Georgina, an Ayacucho woman who arrives in Lima about to give birth to later suffer the abduction of her baby as soon as she is born. The young woman seeks help from the authorities but ignored, decides to report in the press and gains the support of a journalist who undertakes the task of investigating the case.

Song Without a Name had its world premiere at the prestigious Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival , where it achieved unanimous critical support. Since then it has been released in France, where it remained on the bill for eight weeks; and then in Spain, Switzerland, Italy and the United States.

With this premiere, Netflix is ??betting on the profitability of Peruvian cinema , which has previously had major international successes also from the hand of female filmmakers, such as Madeinusa and La teta humana, both by Claudia Llosa, for example.

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Official Joint Announcement: Expanded Hague Adoption Convention Processing with the United States following the Conclusion of the Special Adoption Program (SAP) in Vietnam

The Department of State is pleased to announce that effective December 31, 2020, Vietnam will expand the categories of children that are eligible for intercountry adoption with the United States under the Hague Adoption Convention. This follows Vietnam lifting the limitations of the Special Adoption Program, which previously allowed processing only for children with special needs, over five years old, and/or in biological sibling groups.

The United States and Vietnam held discussions from June to September 2020 on intercountry adoptions with an emphasis on our mutual commitment to cooperate on child protection issues. We acknowledge Vietnam’s legal improvements, particularly under Decree 24/2019/ND-CP, to better align with the Hague Adoption Convention. Vietnam’s commitment to ongoing adoption reform is demonstrated by the progress made to build necessary safeguards and infrastructure, and meet its obligations under the Convention. Such significant improvements have contributed to a determination to process intercountry adoption cases for all eligible children under the Convention and follow the respective laws of the two countries.

Vietnam has not expressed plans to change the current limitation on the number of U.S. adoption service providers (ASPs) authorized to operate in Vietnam. These decisions are entirely within the jurisdiction of the Vietnamese government and these limitations exist for all partner countries participating in intercountry adoptions.

Vietnam and the United States will continue to process cases previously started under the Special Adoption Program to completion for children already determined eligible for intercountry adoption with interested U.S. prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) and/or for which U.S. PAPs have already completed dossiers. For cases other than those mentioned above, processing shall be in accordance with current Vietnamese law and in conformity with the Convention. There will not be changes to how cases are processed by the United States; U.S. PAPs will continue to use the Form I-800 for the Hague Adoption Convention process.

By Johannes Lindgren

When I first got the message from the adoption agency that my birth father did not want to meet me, I thought that I must have scared him.

He probably thought I was coming back to ask him for money, or perhaps blame him for leaving me. Therefore, I made sure to communicate that I did not want anything from him, I did well on my own, and I was not planning to confront him in any way. I simply wanted to meet a person that I was biologically related to; see what he looked like, if there were any similarities between the two of us, and also ask him if he knew anything about my birth mother. Perhaps he had a photo of her.

The answer came back quickly from the agency; he was not scared of me ? he was scared that his family would find out about me. The fact that he once had a son had been kept a secret from his wife ? and from his daughters.

The sudden disappointment from my birth father's rejection was in an instant swept away by this new revelation. I had two (half) sisters! This new piece of information gave me a lot of joy, but it also put me in a moral dilemma. Should I contact my sisters? Would they be pleased to, at an adult age, gain a brother!? I would not know unless I contacted them. But if my birth father wanted to keep me as his secret, was it wrong to reveal myself against his will? Who has the moral right in this case? A man who wishes his son to remain a secret or the son who wishes to know his origins?

Adoption is a wonderful way to grow a family and give a child in need a home. But the process can be prohibitively expensive. In fact, the average cost of a private agency adoption in the U.S. is $43,000, according to a report from Adoptive Families Magazine. That's because there are numerous expenses that go into the process:

Attorney fees

Court fees

Home studies

Travel expenses

Hoe is het nu met de deelnemers van ‘Wie Kent Mij Nog?’

24 december 2020

Hoe is het nu met de deelnemers van ‘Wie Kent Mij Nog?’ LINK

Tijdens de landelijke Week tegen Eenzaamheid in oktober deelde de EO de levensverhalen van vijf eenzame mensen. In ‘Wie Kent Mij Nog?’ vertelden zij hoe hun eenzaamheid is ontstaan en hoe het is om eenzaam te zijn.

Het zijn ontroerende verhalen van vijf compleet verschillende mensen die laten zien dat eenzaamheid veel verder gaat dan het ontbreken van sociaal contact. In deze laatste maand van het jaar gaat de EO opnieuw naar ze toe om te zien hoe het nu met ze gaat. Zijn ze inmiddels minder eenzaam? Zit er met kerst iemand bij ze aan tafel?

Dinja van Lankveld (39) is born in Sri Lanka and adopted by Dutch parents after six weeks, because her young mother cannot take care of her. Dinja was happy with her adoption for a long time, but she slowly changes her mind.

“It's all very vague, I don't really know who to trust,” she says about her contact with the adoption agency.

INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION

LINDA.nl spoke to Dinja in 2016 about a decision by the Council for the Application of Criminal Law and Youth Protection. They advised to prevent international adoption as much as possible and to first find housing for the children in their country of origin. At the time, Dinja understood the discussion, but she was especially happy with her adoption: "I have had many more opportunities than my brother and sisters who did grow up in Sri Lanka."

Now, four years later, she is still happy with these opportunities and the warm nest she ended up in. Yet she is not comfortable. Dinja: “I got love, money and opportunities here, certainly. The Netherlands feels like my home base, but so does Sri Lanka. I think I could also have been very happy in Sri Lanka, then many people would have been spared a lot of grief. I don't have a good connection with my roots, I miss the country. I also believe that it is never in the best interest of a child to take it away from family. ”

ECONOMYNEXT- A 47-year-old man arrested in Matale for allegedly maintaining ‘baby farms’ was released on conditional bail and two sureties worth Rs 200,000 each by the Moratuwa Magistrate’s court today, December 23.

The suspect was produced before the courts this morning on charges of child trafficking.

The suspect has been ordered to reappear before the Moratuwa Magistrate’s Court on 04 January next year.

According to Police Media Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana, the suspect has contacted pregnant women who were the victims of rape and sexual abuse and had brought them to two places in Kaldemulla, Moratuwa where he had allegedly entered into an agreement with the pregnant women to sell their babies to third parties.

DIG Rohana said such trafficking of infants is called baby farms in other countries and according to section 360 of the Penal Code human trafficking is an offence, so the suspect will be charged under that as selling an unborn fetus is seen as human trafficking.

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