Over the past ten years, ten foreign adopted children have been refused just before or after arrival in their adoptive family. Three children from Portugal were sent back, one stayed with another, Dutch family.

More than ten children have had their adoption refused just before or after their arrival in the adoptive family in the past ten years. Of the eight children adopted from Portugal in 2019, one was rehomed in a Dutch family, after which it returned to Portugal. Two Portuguese children who were adopted together in the same year were also removed from their home and then, in consultation with the Portuguese central adoption service, returned to their country of birth. Two years later, another adoption of two children from Portugal was stopped, before the children came to our country, at the request of the adoptive family.

Four children from Ethiopia and three children from India, who had already been assigned to their adoptive families, were also refused. In 2018, one child from Bulgaria came to Flanders via intercountry adoption – that child was placed outside the home. This also happened in 2021 with a child from Thailand, who was rehomed with other candidates from the same adoption service.

It is not about large numbers, but in the past ten years fewer and fewer children were adopted from abroad. In 2008 there were 210, last year 21, or ten times less. And yet just as many children were refused or rehomed as in the first decade of the century.

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The horrors endured by women and girls in New Zealand’s unmarried mothers’ homes have been laid bare - including a resident beaten in labour and forced to give birth on her side so as to not glimpse the baby that was taken and adopted out.

A landmark report into abuse in state care has detailed the experiences of women and girls who had their newborns taken from them and adopted out to married couples from the late 1950s to 1980s, the so-called “baby scoop” era. Those include:

• Being starved in an effort to keep unborn babies small so deliveries were more straightforward.
• One woman told the inquiry she was left alone to labour for three days, and then forced to give birth lying on her side, so as to not catch a glimpse of her baby.
• A 14-year-old was transferred to give birth at Auckland Hospital, was slapped by a staff member during labour, and then stitched up without pain relief. Her baby was removed straight away.
• The state played an active part in facilitating closed adoptions that haunted women for the rest of their lives, with a new birth certificate often created that claimed the child had been born to its adoptive parents.

The long-awaited report of the Abuse in Care Royal Commission, six years in the making, was released yesterday. That included women and girls sent to unmarried mothers’ homes, after the campaigning and efforts of a group who had earlier petitioned Parliament for a Government inquiry into forced adoption.

The CBI filed a chargesheet against nine people for alleged child trafficking, and the sale and purchase of newborns. The agency had rescued five babies during searches across the National Capital Region, Haryana and Rajasthan following which a case was registered on April 5.

This is the first chargesheet in the case and further investigation is underway. In the first raids at seven locations in April, the CBI rescued two male newborns – 1.5 days old and 15 days old – along with a one-month-old female. The agency also seized several documents along with Rs 5.5 lakh in cash.

According to the CBI, the accused through advertisements on social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp would be connected with childless couples looking to adopt. ⁠They purchased the infants from parents, who were economically downtrodden, the agency said.

⁠Investigators said the accused would sell the newborns to hopeful parents across India for Rs 4 lakh to Rs 6 lakh per infant, giving them fake documentation related to birth and adoption. They also went to the extent of posing as the babies’ biological parents, they said.

Of the nine chargesheeted, eight accused were earlier arrested and sent to judicial custody. Police identified them as Neeraj from Sonipat; Indu Pawar, Aslam, Pooja Kashyap, Ritu, Anjali and Kavita from Delhi; and Hari Singh from Rajasthan. Another accused was subsequently traced and identified as Arti Naik from Rajasthan.

CHENNAI: As a ray of hope to prospective adoptive parents with disabilities, S Velmayil (34) and P Baby (36), a couple with disabilities from Srivaikuntam in Thoothukudi district, adopted a four-month-old baby on Tuesday. The child was assigned to couple after a wait of four years but the adoption committee had recently rejected them, citing disabilities as a reason. TNIE had reported this. The baby was finally brought home after the couple underwent a physical examination and were declared fit.

P Baby, the mother, was at a loss for words to express her happiness. She said the adoption committee has asked them to take care of the baby with the help of Velmayil’s parents and handed over the child by 5 pm.

Both Velmayil and Baby have locomotor disability of 90% and 80% respectively; while it has affected the lower limbs of the former, the latter can’t move her right hand and right leg.

The couple, who got married in 2016, live with Velmayil’s parents. Baby is a noon meal organiser and Velmayil works at a fuel station. They registered to adopt a child in 2020, following which social workers inspected their house twice and cleared all formalities. In June, the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) informed the couple that a specialised adoption agency in Dindigul has assigned them a baby born in March.

However, a five-member adoption committee said the couple would not be able to care for the child, particularly in the first two years of age, due to their physical disabilities. Taking a decades-old disability certificate as basis and without examining them further, an ortho surgeon from Government Thoothukudi Medical College Hospital said the couple was unfit to adopt the child. But the final recommendation from the medical board chairman stated that they could handle the baby.

Bombay High Court

Janani Ashish Charitable Trust vs Jessy Pushpa Vandervaeren, Belgian ... on 24 July, 2024

Author: R.I. Chagla

Bench: R.I. Chagla

2024:BHC-OS:11062                                                                            4-FAP-19-2024.doc        Sharada                     IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY                         ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION                                         AND                      IN ITS GENERAL AND INHERENT JURISDICTION                      FOREIGN ADOPTION PETITION NO. 19 OF 2024                                                 WITH                                  JUDGE'S ORDER NO.97 OF 2024                                                     IN                      FOREIGN ADOPTION PETITION NO. 19 OF 2024        Janani Ashish Charitable Trust,                       ...Petitioner               And        Jessy Pushpa Vandervaeren, Belgian National           ...Proposed Adopter                                                 ----------        Mr. Rakesh Kapoor i.by Mr. Rakesh K. Kapoor, Advocate for the Petitioner.        Ms. Vandana Chincholkar, Scrutiny Officer, ICSW present.        Mr. D.S. Gurav, Chamber Registrar present.                                                 ----------                                       CORAM : R.I. CHAGLA, J.                                       DATE      :    24TH JULY 2024        ORDER :

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Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence

The Romanian authorities express their understanding of the pain of the Romanian family from Leeds whose children were taken into foster care by the British state, but consider that the reasons behind this decision are "legal and justified", reports RareșPetru Achiriloaie, the president of the National Authority for the Protection of Child Rights and Adoption (ANPDCA), through a post made on the institution's page.

Yhe President of the Child Protection in Romania says that what happened in Leeds represents a "sad event with a big impact both in the Romanian community in the territory and in British society". "Emotions took the place of reason and, carried by good intentions, people let things degenerate into a situation that turned into a riot We understand the family's pain and desire to keep their children close. Many things could have gone better, on both sides, but the important thing is to find solutions to resolve the conflict peacefully, with understanding and calmness. We understand the parents' point of view, we understood that they felt powerless, wronged and that they reacted out of fear", says Rareș-Petru Achiriloaie, president of ANPDCA.

Child Protection in Romania considers the reasons of the British colleagues legal and justified 

On the other hand, the ANPDCA president says that the Romanian authorities understand the reasons why the British authorities took the decision to act in the Leeds case.

John Portmann (61) believes he is first to use modern technology to prove that he is entitled to an Irish passport

An academic in the United States who discovered his 100 per cent Irish ancestry following a DNA test has been awarded Irish citizenship.

John Portmann (61), who was adopted and unaware of his heritage, was granted an Irish passport after proving that his biological father Thomas Fitzgerald was from Dublin and his biological mother Térese Delahanty’s family was originally from Co Kilkenny.

Prof Portmann believes that he is the first person to gain Irish citizenship solely on the outcome of a DNA test.

Prof Portmann is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of several books. He was born on June 6th, 1963 in Phoenix, Arizona into the care of the Sisters of Mercy nuns in the city.

Paula Beer was just 17 when she fell pregnant.

Afraid to tell her parents, she hid her pregnancy and travelled from her hometown of Bridgend to Essex to stay with her aunt.

At seven months pregnant, she decided to give her baby up for adoption.

After giving birth in February 1967, Paula spent just three days with her little boy before he was taken away.

Paula had been working in a grocery shop when she found out she was pregnant.

Panaji: A total of 330 parents in Goa are on the wait-list for adoption as on date, women and child development minister Vishwajit Rane told the assembly in reply to a question by Benaulim MLA Venzy Viegas.

Over the past five years, 77 children — from 2-month-olds to 15-year-olds — have been adopted from Goa by parents from Goa and other states.

Nineteen out of the 77 children were given in adoption to parents in Goa and the rest to parents in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Telangana, Rajasthan, New Delhi and even US through inter-country adoption.

During this same period, 55 older children, mostly teenagers, were taken under foster care by foster parents. Over the past five years, however, 12 older children given under foster care were returned and five children given for adoption were returned.

The reasons given for returning foster children ranged from the child and foster parents not being able to adjust with each other, the foster parent not willing to continue to take care of the child, the child not able to adjust and not ready to stay with foster parents, the child not being able to bond with the foster mother and behavioural and discipline issues of the child.

In the case of the five adopted children who were returned over the past five years, the reasons ranged from the adoptive parents not able to adjust, the parents backing out feeling incompetent, problematic child behaviour, child emotionally attached to old friends and no bonding between child and adoptive mother.

Older foster children are mostly those who have lived in child care institutions their whole life and often find it difficult to adjust to a family set up, a stakeholder said.