Raksha Bandhan 2019: "When you adopt older kids, you need to keep in mind that they remember their past. My daughter was three years old when she came to us. Every time we went back for court hearings and she saw her previous caretaker, she would get frightened."

Raksha Bandhan 2019: Sheik Jenia, a mother from Delhi, adopted a girl child last year after having two biological sons. The mother told Express Parenting about how she adopted her daughter, who now listens to her elder brother more than her mother. Here’s her story, in her words:

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‘I wanted a girl. That’s when adoption came to my mind’

I have two boys and one girl. My boys, eight and six, are my biological kids. My husband and I wanted a girl. When I had my first child, I had no expectations with regard to gender and just wished for a healthy baby. When we planned our second baby, we hoped for a girl. And I gave birth to a boy. I remember telling my doctor in the operation theatre, ‘I will come back again.’

The family, which also includes the girl’s two elder brothers, has been living for years at Manakad at a shed-like house on a Puramboke land.

KOZHIKODE: Emotions flow unabatedly at the time of a crisis like landslides and flood being witnessed by the state for the second consecutive year, but the persons demonstrating such feelings don’t necessarily follow guidelines and they ignore the problem their offers would create.

A 12-year-old girl, who lost her father recently, is the centre of discussion now going viral on social media. A number of Keralites across the globe wanted to adopt her.

The discussion is taking place with all details of the girl, including her picture, following which the Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) has raised the alarm over the auction-like offers for the minor. Originally from Karnataka, the girl’s father Raju, a street performer, collapsed and died at the flood relief camp at Manakad UP School, Mavoor here, on August 11.

The family, which also includes the girl’s two elder brothers, has been living for years at Manakad at a shed-like house on a Puramboke land. Their house was washed away in flood. The girl’s mother had deserted them years back.

CEO of Adopt Change Renee Carter joins Jon Faine and co-host Sally Warhaft for Known Unknowns, to talk about adoption.

Last year there were 22 adoptions in Victoria and 330 adoptions in Australia.

"There has been a massive decline," Ms Carter said.

"Some of it is good reason, but a lot of it is to do with our heritage of adoption in Australia. We used to do adoption very badly."

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The director of the organisation has been accused of abetting a British national in unlawfully procuring a Nepali child and assisting in obtaining fraudulent documents to claim the baby.

Dangol was detained by police on Wednesday morning from outside his office for his alleged role in abetting a British national in unlawfully procuring a Nepali child and assisting her in obtaining fraudulent documents to claim the baby as her own.

The British national, Dina Smith, was detained by immigration officials at Tribhuvan International Airport last week when she tried to leave the country with the infant.

Smith had arrived in the country on July 26 and claimed she had given birth to a baby, who was born on July 28. She attempted to fly out on August 7, a little over a week after the baby was born.

Initially, she told officials she had given birth to the baby herself in Kathmandu. But after tests at the Maternity Hospital proved otherwise, she confessed that she had received help from Dangol in obtaining the infant. Smith told officials that Dangol had found the baby at an abortion clinic and helped her obtain fraudulent documents, which included a birth registration certificate naming her as the mother.

Fifteen years ago, Bernie and Debbie Penkin adopted two older children from Liberia. Their story bears similarities to many other adoption narratives, but with a few significant differences.

The Penkins, who live in Washington state, began to think about adopting from Liberia after talking with some Liberian friends.

They were interested in adopting older children because, as Bernie Penkin explains, “Once the cute washes off a baby, they are very hard to adopt. And these kids need love just as much as a baby does, if not more.”

After about a year of communicating back and forth with the Penkins, a girl named Rita, age 13, and a boy named Misha, 9, boarded an airplane bound for America to begin a new life with people they barely knew.

“I was really excited to know that I was coming to the states, but I was also nervous because I was leaving behind everything I had ever known,” Rita Penkin Palmquist, now 28, says during a phone interview.

n July and August, editor-in-chief Jozefien Daelemans and Editor-in-Chief Anouk Torbeyns alternate weekly in a new series of summer columns. This week: Anouk who wants to reflect on her first mom on this second Mother's Day. Photo: Sarah Van Looy

Today the mothers are celebrated in the province, more specifically in the diocese, Antwerp. While we always look at the people of Antwerp with a crooked eye because they can't just do 'normal' and celebrate Mother's Day in May like all the rest, a Mother's Day on Our Lady of Ascension actually seems more logical. People then commemorate and celebrate Mary, the primeval mother – at least in Catholic culture – the mother of mothers.

As an Antwerp immigrant with a mother who does not live on the territory, I still celebrated Mother's Day in May in recent years and I did nothing special on August 15. I want to change that starting this year. I want to use this second Mother's Day to honor my first, popularly called 'organic', mother. Because no matter how unconditional the care and love of my adoptive mom is, my first mother never really got a prominent place in my personal adoption story. Wrongly, I now know.

“My first mother never really got a prominent place in my adoption story. Wrongly, I now know.”

When I look back on it now, I was taught from an early age to subtly distance myself from my birth mother because, for whatever reason, she gave me up too. Not entirely illogical, of course. With an adoption, your environment tries to do everything possible so that you attach yourself to your new environment and family as quickly as possible. Everyone has done their best to create a warm nest, to receive me with open arms and to make me feel at home, blood ties or not. I don't suspect anyone of bad intentions. Today, however, I dare to doubt whether it was the best approach.

The children sent to a DR Congo 'holiday camp' never to come back

By Joanna Heywood

Brussels

14 August 2019

Abdula Libenge holds a picture of his missing daughter

Parents sue Centennial adoption agency claiming they weren’t informed of Chinese son’s sexual-abuse issues

Adopted child raped younger adoptive kids, lawsuit claims

By KIRK MITCHELL | kmitchell@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

PUBLISHED: August 14, 2019 at 12:51 pm | UPDATED: August 14, 2019 at 3:36 pm

Southwest Airlines could add more than 100 flights a day in Denver if it gets gate wish, executive says

Adopted child raped younger adoptive kids, lawsuit claims

An Indiana couple has sued a Centennial adoption agency claiming the teen boy they brought home from China had an undisclosed history of sexual trauma and raped their two younger children.

The couple brought the civil lawsuit against Chinese Children Adoption International of Centennial on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Denver for themselves and on behalf of two Chinese boys, the lawsuit said. The Denver Post is withholding the couple’s name to protect the identity of juvenile sexual assault victims.

The couple are asking for an unspecified amount of money and a judge’s order ensuring the adoption agency follow court-ordered protocols that keep families and children safe, according to the lawsuit filed by Indianapolis attorneys Jonathan Little, Derrick Morgan and Annemarie Alonso.

“We have great empathy for the family that brought this suit, but we strongly and categorically deny the allegations,” said the Rev. Joshua Zhong, the Chinese Children Adoption International co-founder and president. “We expect a full vindication through the courts. We stand behind our decades-strong reputation as a professional and ethical non-profit having served thousands of families and children here and in China.”

Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA). which deals with all matters

concerning Child Adoption in India/ Abroad, urgently requires the post of

Assistant Director (Admin Legal) on deputation basis on Foreign service terms'

(including short term contract), initially for three years extendable up to five

years.