A warm family helps orphanage children cope with stress

Psychology With orphanage children growing up in a warm family, the disturbed stress reaction normalizes during puberty.

An unsettled stress response due to intense experiences in early life can recover during puberty. This is what American psychobiologists write this week in the scientific journal PNAS. The research suggests that in addition to early childhood there is also a sensitive period during puberty, during which the biological stress system can still normalize by growing up in a warm nest.

In people who grew up in an orphanage as a small child, the body reacts differently to exciting events at a later age than in people who spent their early years in a normal family. They produce less of the stress hormone cortisol at that time than usual, because their biological stress system, the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis), functions less well. This is evident from, among other things, previous studies into seriously neglected children who grew up in orphanages in Bucharest. Research on rats and macaques that were neglected by their mother also shows that there is a sensitive period in early childhood, when the stress system is formed.

Both too much and too little of the stress hormone cortisol has a bad effect on the immune system, the stress response and mental development.

Kazakhstan: Suspension of Intercountry Adoptions Reconfirmed

This notice updates previously-issued notices dated July 12, 2019 and June 16, 2017.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MOES), as intercountry adoption central authority, reconfirmed with the Department of State on October 22 that the existing suspension on intercountry adoptions between Kazakhstan and the United States remains in place, pending the submission of all outstanding post-adoption reports (PARs). MOES continues to issue certificates of authorization to Adoption Service Providers (ASPs), although the suspension applies to all U.S. ASPs.

Please submit outstanding PARs, which should be both apostilled and notarized, at your earliest convenience. The required content for PARs is discussed in the Department’s June 16, 2017 notice.

Originals can be sent to the address below:

"The time has come for a change in the childcare system. It is necessary to invest resources, firstly, to help families with children in crisis, and secondly, to create a sufficient number of foster families of different types. Children should live in families, not in institutional care, and the state is obliged to provide this."

- Z henya Ershova, Speech given at the Celebrating 30 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Workshop

Introduction to this Special Issue

November 20th 2019 marked two important anniversaries- 30 years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and a decade since the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children were ‘welcomed’ by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in 2009. To mark the occasion, Better Care Network asked several key actors to write brief reflections on different topics and aspects of children's care for this special issue of the BCN newsletter, focusing on the last 10 years of progress in the care reform movement, as well as hopes and recommendations for the future.

These partners were asked to consider the following questions: What has been some of the most significant progress on this issue since the Guidelines were adopted? What are the key challenges now? And where do you see things going in the next ten years?

MUMBAI: The fees that prospective parents pay to adopt a child is not

subject to Goods and Services Tax, the Maharashtra bench of the

Authority for Advance Rulings has said.

AAR gave the ruling after agreeing with the argument of a recognised

adoption agency from Nerul that children are not “goods” and the agency

Kirk Kellerhals was adopted when he was a toddler and grew up thinking his biological parents were dead

For almost all of his life, Kirk Kellerhals struggled with his identity.

The 50-year-old from Norfolk, Virginia was adopted by an Army captain and his wife shortly after Kellerhals was born in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. At the time, both Kellerhals and his adoptive parents believed his biological mother and father had died.

“My mother was listed as a Vietnamese national and was deceased, and my father was also listed as deceased,” Kellerhals tells PEOPLE for National Adoption Awareness Month. “I’ve grown up my whole life thinking my parents were dead, that both my parents were dead.”

Kellerhals — who has dark hair and tanned skin — says he was mistaken for a variety of ethnicities and called “every derogatory term you can think of” while growing up. Though he knew he was half-Vietnamese, the complete picture of his background remained a mystery to him.

The third investigation has been launched for the Pest County Child Protection Service

OCTOBER 30, 2019 8:55 AM - BY 168 HOURS

Prosecution and police investigations into a new case have begun on the adoption practice of the Pest County Child Protection Service (Tegyesz), the Index learned .

Two children were divorced from their foster parents without immediate care. One case was reported by the Index and the other reported by 168 Hours . In both cases, investigations have been launched at the Budapest Police Headquarters for PM Teszesz's proceedings. In both cases, the BRFK has confirmed to us that the prosecution, the police, is investigating a crime against an unknown perpetrator for misuse of public office.

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CHENNAI: Prospective parents could soon be able to adopt children through a mobile application after submitting all the

required documents. The ministry of women and child development (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/ministry-ofwomen-and-child-development) has asked all state resource agencies for suggestions to help launch a parent-friendly app

“The added advantage of a mobile app is that registration process and uploading of documents can be done on the go, from

wherever they are,” said a senior official from the department of social welfare.

Currently, the registration and process for adoption (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/adoption) are online through the

AKIPRESS.COM - Davin Aisulu Tackabury, born Oct. 16, 2001, passed away on Sept. 1, 2019, at his family home in West Tisbury, The Martha's Vinyard Times reported.

Davin was born in Kostanai, Kazakhstan, and adopted into the West Tisbury community at 14 months of age through his parents, Wayne and Kathleen Tackabury.

With zeal and drive, he made his way through Island Childrens’ School, West Tisbury School, and ultimately Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (where he was entering 12th grade at the time we lost him).

Davin was also a member of the family of the Kazakh Aul of the United States, an organization founded to create lasting cultural celebration and appreciation of the Kazakh community across North America, whether that connection be through adoption or expatriation.

While Davin showed early gifts in gymnastics and dance, his prodigious command of visual arts directed his attention and boundless creativity toward photography and painting, going forward into his high school career.

The third episode of journalist Igor Traboni's investigation on the magazine Orwell.it is dedicated to national adoptions

“Italy is not a country for adoptive families ”. Thus begins the third episode of journalist Igor Traboni's investigation into the world of adoption for Orwell.it. An episode which, unlike the previous two , in which the topic of international adoption was explored, focuses on national adoptions.

“For every potentially adoptable Italian child – explains Traboni – there are around 10 copies available to do so. Yet, every year, there are fewer adoption decisions." Furthermore, the journalist continues, “Italy (...) in 1998 ratified the Hague Convention, an almost global point of reference for the protection of minors and international cooperation. Yet Italian children cannot be adopted by a foreign couple! And here it borders on the absurd, because: either you are part of certain rules and, therefore, you apply them all, or you are in breach of these”.

Traboni interviewed the president of Ai.Bi on this topic. – Friends of Children, Marco Griffini . Who explained: “Let's say straight away that, as authorized bodies, we have no jurisdiction over national adoptions, the matter of which falls under the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts. However, there is this problem of Italian children who, in fact, cannot be adopted by citizens of other nations. It has happened to us several times that from abroad, for example by Italian-American couples, we are asked to be able to adopt in Italy, but... it's not possible. Like Ai.Bi. we have been carrying on this battle for many years, but our requests have always been rejected by the CAI, the Adoption Commission, with the reasoning that, in practice, until there is a database of national adoptions, it is not possible to apply the principle of reciprocity".

How important is the committee of inquiry into adoption fraud?

The investigation committee into adoption fraud starts today. Eva Langenus and Sandra Sebrechts are both victims of adoption fraud. They testify with us.

Dutch:

Vandaag start de onderzoekscommissie naar adoptiefraude. Eva Langenus en Sandra Sebrechts zijn allebei slachtoffer van adoptiefraude. Zij getuigen bij ons.

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