In the final days of the Vietnam war, Operation Babylift evacuated 3,000 children and took them to the West to be adopted.

Not all were orphans; many of them, now middle-aged adults, are still searching for their roots.

When David Matthew Redmon met his birth mother at Saigon airport, it was as if his own ghost were being laid to rest.

“For more than 40 years, my mother lived with the thought that she had killed her son,” says David, 47, as he recalls finally meeting the woman from his faded childhood dreams.

On that day in August 2015, David had flown to Ho Chi Minh City from Boston, where he was brought up by adoptive parents. He spent most of the 20 or so hours in the air rehearsing every possible scenario, yet still it was not enough to prepare him. As he passed immigration at Tan Son Nhat International he saw an elderly lady dressed in a purple ao ba ba , a traditional South Vietnamese garment, and suddenly it was as if those childhood dreams had come to life. “When that moment came, my emotions simply took over and I cried like a child.”

Distance and adoption in the Netherlands between 1956-1984

Many women renounced their child for adoption between 1956 and 1984 under pressure. The government is therefore conducting research into the situations of distance parents, distance children and adoptive parents in that period until the end of 2020. And the role of the organizations involved and the social environment such as family and social workers.

Do you want to share your story and experiences for the distance and adoption study 1956-1984?

Distance and adoption by pressure

In 2017, Radboud University conducted research into women who renounced their child for adoption between 1956 and 1984. According to this research, this happened under pressure. Often because the women were not married. Distance mothers felt pressured by their immediate environment and care providers. Such as family, doctors, social workers and the church. The distance between the mother, father and child was broken. This caused a lot of lasting sadness and shame for parents and children.

Europol smashes a gang that dealt with babies

A gang of criminals is accused of bringing pregnant Bulgarian women to Greece for their birth. According to Interpol, the babies were adopted for around 25,000 euros. The suspects are also said to have acted with egg cells.

Greek investigators have teamed with Europol dug up a gang of criminals who are said to have traded with newborn babies and with egg cells. Twelve people were arrested, Europol said on Thursday in The Hague.

As a result, since 2016, the gang has been soliciting young pregnant Bulgarian women and brought them to Thessaloniki, Greece. There, women in private clinics gave birth to their children.

According to Europol, the babies were then illegally adopted for around 25,000 euros each. More details on this did not mention Europol. Some of the young women were brought to Thessaloniki as surrogate mothers.

In this article we present a brief history and recent statistics of child abandonment and adoption in Romania. After a rise in international adoptions in the 90s, a moratorium on adoption was established and in 2004 international adoptions became virtually impossible. Based on statistics of the Romanian National Authority for the Protection of Children's Rights and Adoption, we noted that since 2004 international adoptions were rare, whereas domestic adoptions remained relatively stable with about 1,000 adoptions each year. To date, not all potential adoption placements are realized. We conclude with reflecting on possible changes to improve child welfare in Romania.

Keywords: Romania, domestic adoption, international adoption, child welfare, child abandonment

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1 WP-28071-2018

The High Court Of Madhya Pradesh

WP-28071-2018

(APORVA SHARMA Vs CENTRAL ADOPTION RESOURCE AUTHORITY MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND

CHILD DEVELOPMEWNT GOVERNMENT OF INDIA)

Between 1980 and 2000, around 14,000 children from destabilized countries such as Sri Lanka or Lebanon were adopted in Switzerland. While the adoptive parents believed that all was right, the Swiss authorities knew that many documents were wrong.

In fact, in many cases there was a real baby trade - children were stolen from mothers, documents were forged. The adoptions took place mainly through controversial placement organizations - also in Switzerland - which responded to the great demand for childless couples. And the Swiss authorities did nothing about it. In March 2019, “DOK” showed how such a baby trade with adopted children for Switzerland came about in Sri Lanka during the civil war of the 1980s - the babies of that time are still looking for their birth parents today. In this report, the Sri Lankan babies of that time today as adults demand an apology from the Swiss government - and access to their dossiers, some of which are still inaccessible to them today. The film “International Adoptions - A Swiss Scandal” shows that adoptions were also carried out in a questionable manner with many other countries, for example in Lebanon. An even more perfidious approach came into play there during the civil war: doctors took away their babies from women immediately after birth and had them registered as children of the adoptive parents - making it practically impossible to find the birth parents today. A young woman who came to Switzerland in this way nevertheless goes on a search - and finds out incredible things. Doctors took away their babies from women immediately after birth and had them registered as children of the adoptive parents - so it is now practically impossible to find the birth parents. A young woman who came to Switzerland in this way nevertheless goes on a search - and finds out incredible things. Doctors took away their babies from women immediately after birth and had them registered as children of the adoptive parents - so it is now practically impossible to find the birth parents. A young woman who came to Switzerland in this way nevertheless goes on a search - and finds out incredible things.

Dad, mum, brush your teeth

TRANSFER IN THE WEST IS THE ONLY CHANCE FOR LIFE WITH FAMILY FOR MANY INDIAN CHILDREN. BUT ADOPTIONAL COUPLES MUST LEAD A SOMETIMES OF BURDEN AGAINST BUREAUCRACY

Shy, Jegan points to the crumpled photo in his brown hand. Then he breathes, "Dad, Mum." The man in the picture is holding a blonde woman in his arms, the little Indian's finger moving on the paper: a laughing boy and a girl with cheeky pigtails driving a white motorboat, Jegan looks questioningly "Brother," remembers Sister Paulina, "Brother and Sister."

The six-year-old speaks Tamil, he can barely speak English. German not at all. He could already learn his first words for months Schwäbisch, if there were not the hurdles of bureaucracy: Since September 2003 Monika and Ulrich Kippelt from Alfdorf fight in Stuttgart for the adoption of the Indian orphan. The story of Jegan and his new parents is a drama with great feelings, disappointments and hopes and an uncertain ending. It shows how difficult foreign country options are - and how important.

In India, for example, Jegan had little chance. Although his unmarried mother had given him immediately after birth in an orphanage in southern India Kerala, and male babies are usually the easiest to convey. But when the doctors found a chronic thyroid disease in the child, it was clear that there would be no Indian adoptive parents: the cost of the drugs are too high. Therefore, Jegan moved to Chennai as a two-year-old to the Franciscan nuns in the baby home Saint Thomas Mount, which has the state license for adoptions in the West. Decisive condition: They must have been rejected three times by Indian couples.

Pieter Omtzigt’s motion regarding whistleblower Roelie Post has been unanimously approved by de Dutch Parliament.

The Dutch parliament will request First Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, to come up with a decent solution.

Part of the Omtzigt motion is also to address the child trafficking problem within intercountry adoption.

We are awaiting further steps to be taken by the Dutch Parliament towards the European Commission.

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GAYA: Five persons, including the director and two women staff of a government-funded adoption centre at Lakhibagh in

Bihar’s Gaya district (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gaya-district), were arrested on Saturday on charges of child

abuse. The accused have been booked under Sections 6 and 9 of Pocso Act and Sections 34 and 120(B) of IPC and sent to jail.

Unclaimed and abandoned children were kept at the centre run by an NGO, ECOVIK. It has now been sealed and its 13 inmates

shifted to other facilities located in Munger and Nalanda (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nalanda) districts, Gaya SSP