After losing his parents, Elvis Izabayo, a TV presenter, had no option but to stay in an orphanage.

Though he managed to forge a living, life was never easy growing up in an orphanage.

He recalls being exposed to abuse, exploitation, neglect, and lack of love and care from parents. It was so painful that he lived with these scars for so many years.

“This affected me and some of my other colleagues that even when we left the place, we had to battle emotional and behavioral issues. I was emotionally needy, insecure, and poor,” he recalls.

Five years ago, the Government embarked on a mission to close orphanages and other children’s institutions and reintegrate the children into family-based care.

Amid what appears to be a baby smuggling incident, how does one properly adopt a child? Social Welfare Undersecretary Flor Villar and Attorney Rod Nepomuceno joins us to talk about adoption in the Philippines.

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An American woman is facing life in prison for brokering an illegal adoption online with a teenage girl from the Philippines and trying to smuggle the 6-day-old boy out of the country, officials said.

Jennifer Erin Talbot, 43, was busted on Wednesday as she allegedly tried to board a Detroit-bound flight at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila with the Filipino infant hidden in a sling bag.

Talbot, who says she has five children and owns a home in Sandy, Utah, was paraded before the media in handcuffs on Thursday as she was charged with human trafficking and kidnapping.

“The child’s situation must have been very difficult during the time that he was put inside that bag,” said Auralyn Pascual, a spokeswoman for the Philippines’ National Bureau of Investigation.

Security-camera images released by the Philippine Bureau of Immigration show the carry-on bag in which the boy was allegedly being held slung behind Talbot’s body as she sneaked past Filipino immigration officials.

Woman (56) says she was coerced into having her baby adopted nearly 40 years ago.

The High Court has dismissed a damages action against the Adoption Authority of Ireland brought by a 56-year-old woman who claims she was coerced into having her baby daughter adopted nearly 40 years ago.

The woman sued both the Adoption Authority (AAI) and an accredited adoption agency, Cúnamh, for personal injuries and an alleged breach of constitutional rights arising out of the adoption of her baby in 1979.

The woman, who gave birth when she was 16 years of age, also claimed the authority had failed to ensure that she was in a position to give informed consent to the adoption of her child.

In a pretrial motion, the authority sought to have her action struck out on grounds including that the case was statute-barred and over the lengthy delay by the woman in bringing the proceedings.

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New Delhi, Sep 4 (PTI) The Supreme Court Wednesday said it would hear on September 17 a matter related to alleged child trafficking from an orphanage in West Bengal so that "tussle" between the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and the WB SCPCR is resolved.

The NCPCR and West Bengal State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WB SCPCR) are at loggerheads over the issue related to powers of NCPCR in initiating inquiry in a matter which is pending before a state commission.

A bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose said the apex court would hear and decide the issue so that such tussle does not arise again between the NCPCR and any other state commission.

"We must decide this matter otherwise this tussle will go on. Two years ago, stay was given by this court but no orders have been passed by the NCPCR," the bench said.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for NCPCR, said inquiry by the national commission is going on in the matter.

A New York bill to grant visitation to birthparents who’ve had their rights terminated goes too far.

Of the more than 25,000 children in foster care in New York state, some 3,500 are waiting to be adopted. But legislation that passed the state Assembly and Senate in June could make it much harder for these children to find permanent homes.

Introduced by Bronx Assemblywoman Latoya Joyner, the Preserving Family Bonds Act would let birthparents whose rights have been terminated by the court apply to visit their children. They would be entitled to a hearing to argue that their continuing contact is in the child’s best interest....

Dr Jane Aronson

Founder and CEO of Worldwide Orphans Foundation

Dr. Jane Aronson was born in Brooklyn in 1951 and grew up on Long Island. She attended Hunter College in New York City and taught school for ten years.

At thirty-one, she fulfilled her life’s dream to become a physician and entered medical school. She graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1986 and did a pediatric residency and chief residency in New Jersey, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Columbia Presbyterian /Babies Hospital in New York City. Between 1992 and 2000, she was the Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Director of the International Adoption Medical Consultation Services at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, New York.

Since July 2000, Dr. Aronson has been in private practice as Director of International Pediatric Health Services, in New York City. She is Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and has evaluated well over 4,000 children adopted from abroad as an adoption medicine specialist; she has traveled to orphanages in Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, China, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Latin America.

Only one child has come to FFIA from this orphanage. As soon as that adoption was completed, FFIA stopped the collaboration for several reasons. On the one hand, the children did not receive the care we were guaranteed, and on the other hand, neither the financial nor administrative process was managed as promised.

The orphanage for many years brought children to other organizations around the world. Many serious social workers and organizations reported the abuses on Preet Mandir, but it was extremely difficult to have their license revoked because of the organization's contacts in influential circles. See article below for more information.

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Preet Mandir

Balwant Kartar Anand Foundation