Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has argued in an appeal against a landmark court ruling that she does not have a duty of care to protect Australian children from climate harm caused by the potential expansion of a coal mine.

The minister’s appeal also says the primary judge, Justice Mordecai Bromberg, erred in his findings about global temperature rise. During the Federal Court case, the scientific evidence on temperature rise was not contested by the government.

A partially successful class action was brought by eight Australian teenagers against the Environment Minister to challenge a proposal by Whitehaven Coal to extend its Vickery coal mine, near Boggabri in NSW.

The teenagers argued the mine expansion would endanger their future because climate hazards would cause them injury, ill health and economic losses, and in his judgment Justice Bromberg agreed. He said 1 million Australian children would be hospitalised at least once in their life for heat stress and the Great Barrier Reef would die along with the east coast’s eucalyptus forests should climate change not be halted.

While the court dismissed the teenagers’ application in May to prevent the minister approving the coal mine extension, it found Ms Ley owed a duty of care to Australia’s young people.

A BENTHAM woman who was forced by her parents to give her newborn baby boy up for adoption, has found him 66 years later, happy and well and living in Australia.

Issy Carr, 86, of Lowther Hill Farm, said her tale was one of heartache which has turned into a miracle thanks to her niece Angela Bowskill and relative Janet Staveley.

Issy said she was only 20 and very naive when she found out she was pregnant, but her parents, Margaret and Roy Staveley forced her to give the baby away.

“I had him at Homesteads Nursing Home, in Melling, on June 13, 1955. I loved him straight away and called him George, but Nurse Eccles, a lovely nurse, said she had been told I was not to see or hold him. He was rushed away and I never saw him again.

“My mother told me I would soon forget about him but I never did and tried many times to find out where he had gone but failed. I never forgave my parents, whatever their reason was,” she said.

A couple of days ago, a childless couple from the US reached Madhubani and adopted a 2-year-old abandoned girl, Kavya, in the presence of the district magistrate.

PATNA: Abandoned by her parents, two-year-old Pakhi Kumari was brought up at the Specialised Adoption Institute in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar.

She was adopted by a childless couple from West Bengal, Reena and Sudipta Pal, on June 10. A couple of days ago, a childless couple from the US reached Madhubani and adopted a 2-year-old abandoned girl, Kavya, in the presence of the district magistrate.

These adoptions show a trend: more and more childless couples prefer a girl child from the state’s various Specialized Adoption Agencies (SSAs), run by the Social Welfare Department or NGOs.

The adoption of male children, abandoned by their biological parents in Bihar, has also increased in recent years. Recently, a couple arrived from Italy and adopted a male child from Muzaffarpur-based SAA.

1.5 million children lost a caregiver during pandemic, including thousands in the UK

An estimated 1.5 million children worldwide under the age of 18 have lost a parent, grandparent or caregiver due to Covid-19, according to a global study.

Of those, more than 1 million experienced the death of one or both parents during the first 14 months of the pandemic, leading to what one researcher called “the hidden pandemic of orphanhood”.

Another half a million experienced the death of a grandparent or caregiver living in their own home, according to a study published in the Lancet.

Researchers extrapolated Covid-19 mortality data and national fertility statistics for 21 countries to produce the global estimates.

In Cambodia, Holt’s social work team has helped to develop three care alternatives for children growing up in institutional care — kinship care, foster care and, for the first time, a formal, ethical system of domestic adoption. In March 2021, the first child in Cambodia joined her adoptive family via this new process.

In May 2020, early in the COVID pandemic, a baby girl was born in a hospital in Cambodia. She was small — weighing just over 5 pounds — but her eyes were dark and lovely and shining with light.

A bright new life had just begun.

But for her mom, this was not a day of celebration. As she looked in the eyes of her newborn daughter, she faced a heartbreaking decision.

Unmarried, and separated from the baby’s father, she feared her family’s reaction if she came home with a child. In many communities in Cambodia, the stigma of single motherhood remains alive and well — shaming women for having a child outside of marriage. This newborn girl’s mom had managed to keep her pregnancy a secret from her family. And on the day her daughter was born, she decided to relinquish her parental rights.

Fiom conducted research on women 1 who discovered their pregnancy late. What seems? They face a lot of misunderstanding. Fiom is therefore starting a campaign to gain more understanding for these women. An unintended pregnancy is often an intense experience, a late pregnancy is even more so. Women in the study share their experiences.

Many people cannot imagine that someone will not discover a pregnancy until after 30 weeks or during delivery. It is often thought that a woman deliberately kept it hidden. But would you know you're pregnant if you didn't get a big belly and keep bleeding every month? Imagine what that would be like. How would you feel if you suddenly gave birth to a child without knowing you were pregnant?

A late pregnancy can happen to anyone, of all body shapes and sizes, of all reproductive ages, mother or not and of any level of education. For all these women 1 this is a heavy event. They are suddenly told that they are not only unintentionally pregnant, but also have a child within weeks or days. Women who discover pregnancy at delivery have even less time to get used to the idea. From one moment to the next they have a child in their arms.

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A MUM who fled the country with her son during a custody fight has won the battle for him to live with her and will tell her story on TV.

Ellie Yarrow-Sanders, from Basildon, will appear on a Channel 4 show, speaking for the first time since winning custody earlier this year.

In 2018, Miss Yarrow-Sanders vanished mid-way through a high court hearing over custody her three-year-old son.

Her disappearance led the judge to lift reporting restrictions on the case and make an appeal on social media for her to come home.

Eight months after her disappearance, Miss Yarrow-Sanders returned and the case resumed in private.

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. — A Lake County family is fighting to bring home their daughter, who was adopted from an orphanage in Nigeria.

“They live in an orphanage, don’t get out much, everything over there is secluded in the sense that it’s like 10-foot walls, so when you get to the orphanage it’s like a 10-foot wall, so they can’t see over the walls,” said Ian Lord as he described his daughter, Ivy’s, living conditions.

Ian and Lisa Lord said they went through the lengthy process to legally adopt the child, but when they applied for a visa to get her to the United States, it was denied.

“It’s just unbelievable, it shouldn’t happen, there’s no excuse,” Lisa said, fighting back tears.

The couple told Channel 9 they’ve already spent more than $50,000 during the process, but it’s about more than the money. Two previous adoptions through Bulgaria also failed.

PUNE: A complaint has been filed against an unknown

woman after she abandoned a seven-month-old baby girl at

a private travel operator’s office on Thursday afternoon (July

15) in Alandi .

A woman from the travel operator’s office filed an FIR. “A

For a long time, adoption has been seen as a way of fulfilling the desire to have children. The number of adoptions in Germany is now falling dramatically. At the same time, the proportion of stepchild adopters is growing. The reasons for this are diverse.

In Germany, significantly fewer couples adopt a child than a quarter of a century ago. The number of adoptions has more than halved within 25 years. While far fewer boys and girls are adopted from abroad, the proportion of stepchild adopters is increasing. What are the reasons for this and how has the handling of adoptions developed over the years?

Call Iris Egger-Otholt in Mainz. The 54-year-old is the head of the Joint Central Adoption Office for Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. "Especially in the area of ??international adoptions there is a drastic decline," says the expert. The reasons for this are varied - and can be found both in the country of origin and in Germany.

An important aspect in this country is the progress in reproductive medicine. "Today many people simply have much better opportunities to have their own child." According to the German IVF Register in Düsseldorf, the number of artificial inseminations is steadily increasing. While there were already more than 110,000 treatments in the fertility centers in 2019, the figure was only around 23,700 in 1994.

New Adoption Assistance Act