“The first woman we contacted for surrogacy (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/surrogacy) fled after taking Rs 50,000.

The second one fled with our child,” said Dinesh Rawat, the father. According to Meerut police, the couple had hired a woman

— Kajal (name changed) from Meerut and native of West Bengal (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/west-bengal) — for

surrogacy in 2014. “Kajal delivered twin boys in 2015 at a nursing home in West Bengal but told the couple that one of them

died during the delivery,” Vijay Gupta, Meerut Sadar police SHO told TOI.

Govt bodies find that guardians misuse the 60-day grace period for reclaiming children from adoption agencies, and put many of the kids up for independent and illegal adoption later. In the last 6 months, 30 such restoration cases were note.

With the revelation of a rise in cases of parents or guardians reclaiming children from registered adoption agencies and often selling them off independent— and illegally — the bodies monitoring the welfare of these

kids are now in a ferment, scrutinising existing processes to make changes.

Over the last five or six months, several eye-opening cases of children being put up for adoption illegally for monetary gains by their own parents or guardians have come to the attention of the women and child

development (WCD) officials in the state.

Reunited the commission in conflict of interest. No solidarity with the families who reported the alleged irregularities of the Milanese institution

The government friend of the regime that killed Giulio Regeni and reached an agreement with the gangs that traffick immigrants in Libya, is now putting its image on children adopted abroad. The Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, chaired the Commission for intercountry adoptions , the supervisory authority of which the premier is president , on Tuesday 12 September . This is the first meeting since Palazzo Chigi appointed magistrate Laura Laera as vice-president of the CAI on 9 May.

Alongside Gentiloni and the vice-president Laera was present, although not entitled, the general secretary of the Prime Minister, Paolo Aquilanti. Commissioner Francesco Bianchini , representative of the "Forum of family associations" was absent: at the time of his appointment, Bianchini's organization was at the center of complaints to the judiciary and to Palazzo Chigi due to the conflict of interest due to the participation, in its management, of "Aibi - Amici dei Bambini" , the Milanese organization authorized by the government for international adoptions. Several rules obviously prohibit controlled entities from sitting in the controlling authority.

Precisely for this reason the outgoing vice-president, the magistrate Silvia Della Monica , had not met the commission and had repeatedly denounced the "Aibi-Forum" conflict to the government and Parliament. Aibi is among other things the association accused of not having reported serious irregularities in the adoption of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thirty parents, involved by the Milanese institution and recipients without their knowledge of the alleged trafficking of minors, asked Gentiloni not to meet the commission for the "continuing illegality situation". The only response they received was the news of the absence of Commissioner Bianchini published on the institutional website of the CAI: a detail that does not resolve the conflict of interest since, according to theAibi continues to be present in the supervisory authority through the Forum. To prohibit it is even a decree of the Prime Minister (article 1 DPCM 13 March 2015 signed by Graziano Delrio).

The Prime Minister, his secretary general and the vice-president-magistrate Laera, on the other hand, also wanted to bring together the commissioners to publicly accuse the magistrateDella Monica of irregularities. «As for the previous management of the former vice president», Paolo Gentiloni and Laura Laera wrote in the final press release, «ample documentation was provided to all the commissioners attesting to numerous irregularities. Among other things, it was noted, in several cases, the mismatch between the protocol numbers assigned to the documents and the documents themselves, as well as the absence of numerous attachments despite the presence of the relative protocol number ". No word for the investigative work that the magistrate Della Monica has carried out and which has also touched state apparatus, including the Foreign Ministry, just when Gentiloni was minister. No solidarity with dozens of families than with as much courage and trust in institutions they denounced the irregularities of Aibi.

Kolkata, Mar 11 (UNI) The West Bengal Government has launched a government-run adoption centre at Medinipur. It will come up at Vidyasagar Balika Bhawan (girls’ home) in the district. The centre was officially inaugurated by the Minister for Women & Child Development and Social Welfare.

There are a total of 22 adoption centres spread across Bengal, most of which are run by voluntary organizations, and are aided by the State Government.

The Minister for Women & Child Development and Social Welfare has confirmed that starting with Medinipur, five more adoption centres of the same kind will be set up in other places. Ten children can now be housed at this adoption centre. Children up to the age of six can reside here. They will also receive education here.

Painful questions in Latvia and often promises to find more funding for pensioners have been present in the country’s government halls for years. The difficult topics regarding orphanages and support of families that have disabled children do not become easier with time either. Why is social inequality Latvia’s bleeding wound? This and other topics were discussed by BNN with Latvia’s Welfare Minister Ramona Petravi?a.

«Adoption in Latvia – nearly all potential parents pick children aged three to five years. Preference given to girls»

One of the main priorities for the new welfare minister is improving adoption rates in Latvia and making sure orphanages provide family-like conditions for children. Petravi?a says Latvia already has a long queue of people waiting to adopt children. Unfortunately, the problem is that nearly all potential parents want children three to five years old. On top of that, the main demand is for girls.

«The situation is especially hard for disabled children – they are picked for adoption far less often than other children,» the minister said.

Low benefits represent one of the reasons why disabled children and not often adopted. «Parents are unable to leave work. Additionally, disabled children require parents to be present all the time. However, a situation in which a child is put in an orphanage costs the state far more – care of such a child in a social care centre costs the state EUR 800 a month,» said the minister.

GEORGE TOWN: At Hendrik Smit’s home in Batu Ferringhi, a marble urn containing some of his granddaughter’s ashes sits in a corner, a grim reminder of how Ivana died two years ago at the tender age of 18.

Almost every day, his wife Ho Sioe Tjoan places fresh flowers in a vase next to the urn and lights several candles around it.

Hendrik, 80, and Ho, 79, raised Ivana from a young age in the Netherlands. When they migrated to Penang in 2002, Ivana, then three, was sent to live with them as well.

Her death in 2017 left a bleak hole in their lives, turning their once-lively home sombre.

“We are lonely, just the two of us here,” Hendrik said in an interview with FMT.

Security service lawyer says it ‘regrets’ claims against Peter Morrison were not investigated

MI5 warned the cabinet secretary in the 1980s about rumours that a minister had a “penchant for small boys” but did not inform the police or launch an investigation into the allegations, according to a member of the security services.

Giving evidence anonymously to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), a lawyer with the security service apologised for it having taken a “narrow, security-related view” of the accusations against Sir Peter Morrison.

“With hindsight,” the lawyer, whose voice was heard via remote video link, said “it was a matter of deep regret” that MI5 had not cooperated with police or made inquiries into the activities of the former MP for Chester, who died in 1995.

The official said the security service did not investigate people merely because they had a public profile but only when there was reason to suspect they posed a threat to national security. Not all files were “adverse”, he added, saying that some might be opened if a person was targeted by a terrorist group or could be susceptible to approaches by a foreign intelligence organisation.

KOLHAPUR: The Panchgani police are questioning a Kenya-based couple - hailing from Pune - for "adopting" a baby for Rs1.5 lakh, in connection

with a rape case.

The couple was summoned by the police as part of a probe into allegations of rape involving a businessman and the sale of the baby born as a result of

the sexual assault. The couple was originally from Bund Garden Road. Panchgani assistant police inspector Trupti Sonawane told TOI that the couple had not followed any legal procedure in the adoption of the baby. "This is serious, and we are following up," she said.

When the suspect revealed the address of the couple that bought the baby, a police team rushed to Pune. The suspect revealed that he got Rs 1.5 lakh

In 1966 in the nation’s capital, what Kara and Frank Speltz wanted to do simply wasn’t allowed.

By Diane Bernard March 10

After Frank and Kara Speltz got married in 1965, the couple found out they couldn’t have children.

Depressed, Kara, then 28, began calling local adoption agencies in the nation’s capital to see if they could adopt. Private agencies in Washington, including Catholic Charities, said the waiting lists were so long that it would take at least five years to adopt a healthy white baby.

Longing for a child, the white couple, who were involved in the city’s civil rights struggles, began to research how they could adopt an African American child instead. A year after their wedding, they contacted D.C.’s Department of Public Welfare and Junior Village, the city’s overcrowded home for orphaned and destitute children. Both organizations turned them down, saying it was against their policies to allow adoptions between whites and blacks.

By Dimithri Wijesinghe

Adoption is the process of permanently transferring all the legal rights and responsibilities of being a parent to a particular child from that child’s birth parents (biological parents) to the adoptive parents.

According to Attorney-at-law Harshana Nanayakkara, who works closely with the Department of Probation and Child Care Services (DPCCS), most people do not realise that adoption is about the child and not the parents. In that “it is about finding a suitable home for a child and not about providing a child to a childless family”.

Many would still say: “Oh, that’s the same thing, just worded differently,” but the fact of the matter is it is not. The biggest concern with such a misconception, regardless of however small it may seem, is that it gives way to all of the illegality and corruption that surround the adoption process.

Olivia