FERMETURE DU SERVICE ADOPTION

Médecins du Monde a définitivement fermé son service adoption depuis le 31 décembre 2019. C'est en juillet 2015 que le Conseil d’Administration a décidé l’arrêt de ce programme et l’accompagnement de la décroissance progressive de nos activités d’adoption.

En 30 ans d’existence, ce programme a mobilisé de nombreux bénévoles partout en France, une petite équipe salariée au siège et de nombreux correspondants nationaux dans les pays d’origine des enfants.

« 4 244 enfants sont venus de nombreux pays et 3 666 familles françaises les ont adoptés grâce à l'accompagnement de MdM. »

Nous avons inlassablement oeuvré pour que des fratries et des enfants à besoins spécifiques puissent rencontrer une famille, pour la promotion d’une éthique de l’adoption internationale et le respect des droits de l’enfant.

As a toddler, Lalita is adopted by a Lucerne family. At the age of 39, she traveled to India for the first time. The report accompanies Livia Lalita Zgraggen's search for traces.

Author:

Christine Weber

An old man with white hair sits behind an old-fashioned reception desk. He lifts his head, his eyes behind the rimless glasses glimpse us. We say who we are and what we want. He looks a bit sullen, then shakes his head in the vague Indian way and picks up the phone. With a wave of his hand he signals to us to take a seat. We sit on a hard, cloth-covered wooden bench and wait.

It's quiet in the small room, the heat shimmers in front of the mosquito-screen windows. Somewhere a bird croaks, the hot air from the fan turns overhead. Along the wall are sacks of toys, boxes of washing powder, and other items; Presumably donations for the children here: It's 2 p.m., June 2018, and we are at St. Catherine's Home, an orphanage in a poor part of Mumbai (formerly Bombay).

As a toddler, Lalita is adopted by a Lucerne family. At the age of 39, she is traveling to India for the first time. The report follows Livia Lalita Zgraggen's search for clues.

An old man with white hair sits behind an old-fashioned reception desk. He raises his head, his eyes glance at us behind his rimless glasses. We say who we are and what we want. He looks a bit grumpy, then wiggles his head in that vague Indian way and picks up the phone. With a wave of his hand he motions for us to take a seat. We sit down on a hard, fabric-covered wooden bench and wait.

It's quiet in the small room, the heat shimmers outside the windows with fly screens. A bird caws somewhere, the hot air from the fan turns above us. Along the wall are bags of toys, boxes of washing powder and other things; probably donations for the children here: It is 2 p.m., June 2018, and we are at St. Catherine's Home, an orphanage in a poor district of Mumbai (formerly Bombay).

The Indian sisters know nothing. Or is it?

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Shortly after June Smith gave birth, a nurse at the Royal Women’s Hospital gave her two white pills.

She asked what they were for.

“The nurse said: ‘To dry up your milk’," Ms Smith says. "I said: ‘But I’m keeping him’. Her words were: ‘You will not be allowed to keep him’.

Fifty-eight years later Ms Smith, 77, and Lynette Kinghorn, 73, are suing the Royal Women’s Hospital and adoption agencies in the Victorian County Court for damages.

Their legal counsel, Shine Lawyers, says the two women objected to their children being put up for adoption and the medical professionals entrusted with their care should have ensured their wishes were respected.

Armenia shocked by baby selling network as the country's top obstetrician and orphanage head are arrested over scheme that sold children to Westerners\

The chief gynaecologist, the head of an orphanage and officials were arrested

The alleged black market adoption market has been operating for years

Syuzan Patvakanyan revealed she was blackmailed into giving up her baby

Armenia has launched an investigation into an apparent underground baby-selling network.

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AHMEDABAD: A 39-year-old man failed to secure custody of his threeyear-old daughter through a habeas corpus petition after his estranged

wife handed over the daughter to an orphanage, from where the child was

given in adoption to a couple not known to the father.

On Monday, the Gujarat high court rejected the habeas corpus petition

saying that the child is not under any illegal confinement and hence the

When it turns out that Reina and her husband cannot have children, it feels like a heavy loss. But their story has turned for the better: through adoption, they now enjoy their children and grandchildren.

“In the beginning, people sometimes looked surprised when they saw a dark child in the pram. We lived in the countryside in Drenthe, so you didn't see that much. Fortunately, we received a lot of positive reactions.”

Reina is in her early twenties when she discovers that she and her husband cannot have children. She married when she was eighteen, her husband was 26 years old. “I'm a Baptist and my husband was of Catholic descent, but at that time he didn't have anything to do with the faith,” says Reina (67). “Even before our marriage, it was a struggle, including with his parents. So we got married pretty quickly. We had a great desire to have children, especially me: women didn't work like that in those days."

Shame

But Reina doesn't get pregnant. “In the hospital it became clear that my husband was infertile. He has yet to have surgery and the gynecologist suggested artificial insemination, but that was not in line with my belief. It was difficult to talk about it, I was ashamed of it. When my sister and friends did have children, I found it very difficult. I must have said to God: why everyone and not me? But I can't remember praying for it. I also had to deal with it alone, because my husband was not religious.”