Do you remember Amy? Now the girl who shook the adoption system is back

Ten years ago, Denmark was shocked by the story of the adoption child Amy. A new documentary shows how it went since the girl who never really fell. But the film is strongest when it also dares to show that we may not always be able to return to what we come from.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family!

The quote, which I saw on a friend's bulletin board, remembered me under the new documentary about Amy Steen, who, against her will, was adopted to Denmark as a 9-year-old. For, of course, it is beautiful to begin world peace by loving the people who brought us here. But it's never that simple.

Amy Steen was born in Ethiopia, but adopted as the biological mother thought she was going to die from AIDS. In Denmark, an adoptive family was ready, but the match was never good, and in time Amy moved to a foster family. It was from here she was removed in 2012, because the adoptive family thought it was best with more "professional frames". I never think I forget the pictures of the pixelated officials holding the screaming and fighting child from the "Adoption Prize".

The process can be extremely difficult and lengthy, especially when it pertains to foreigners adopting an Indian child.

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TV premiere of Amy's will

TV PREMIERE. Ethiopian girl Amy was adopted to Denmark as a 10-year-old. In Katrine W. Kjær's documentary 'Amy's Will', we follow Amy, as as a teenager she decides to actively go against the Danish authorities and return to her biological family. Watch the film on TV 2 on Thursday 24 January at. 20:00.

January 22, 2019

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When Amy was 10 years old, she and her little sister became adopted to Denmark and left their mother and older sister in Ethiopia. However, Amy has never settled in her new Danish family. She is afflicted by grief after the loss of her biological family, and she wants her adoption abolished.

Do you remember adopting Amy, who was forcibly removed? Here she is today

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Amy, who was forcibly removed as a 12-year-old, is current in a new documentary. In the video you can see Amy explaining how she has it today and see a clip from the new documentary where Amy gets forced back in 2012. Show more

Amy Steen became famous in 2012 when she was forcefully removed from her foster family, and the violent scenes since then went around the country.

Originally, Amy Steen was adopted from Ethiopia and has for many years struggled with the system to allow her to see her biological family. Today, however, everything has changed.

'AMY'S WILL' - NEW STRONG TV 2 DOCUMENT

Amy travels back to Ethiopia hoping to be reunited with her family. The trip doesn't quite go as she had hoped. (Photos: Sunday Pictures / TV 2)

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TV 2 Dokumentar has for a number of years followed Amy, who was adopted away to Denmark and feels let down by both Danish and Ethiopian authorities. The documentary "Amy's will" is sent on TV 2 and TV 2 PLAY on Thursday 24 January.

By Lene Pind, TV 2 Communication

Amy feels she was bought and sold as a commodity when she was adopted from Ethiopia to Denmark

When Amy was 15 years old, she found out that you were paying money when adopting a child. She asked, "Isn't it just human trafficking with a finer word?"

She's split. She feels like a man divided into two. Amy Rebecca Steen is Ethiopian, but has lived in Denmark half of her 20-year-old life. Her mother and older sister, her grandfather and the rest of her family live in Ethiopia. Her little sister lives in Næstved at the adoptive family, where she herself lived the first year and a half of her time in Denmark before moving to a foster family because her adoptive parents did not power her.

"When I was 15 years old, I found out that you pay money when you adopt. And I remember I asked if it's not just human trafficking with a finer word? "

Amy and her sister were adopted through the agency DanAdopt in 2009, and in 2013, the agency was deprived of the right to convey adoptions from Ethiopia, because the National Board of Appeal considered that there were doubts as to whether the adoptions were ethically and legally justifiable. Several Ethiopian women told then that they felt pressured to adopt their children.

Lucilas Discovered: I was kidnapped and sold as a baby

On her 40th birthday, Lucila gave herself a present. She would seek her roots in Chile and get answers to what made her at four years old end up with an adoptive family in Sweden.

Lucila traveled to Chile in the hope of finding her biological family

Lucilas adoptive parents threatened to make her hereditary if she traveled to Chile. But when Lucila was 40, she got the courage to go anyway.

When Lucila Jensen, thirty-six years after she was kidnapped and adopted away from her country of birth, for the first time, Chilean land tore her heart. From her mouth came a cry of joy; I'm finally home!

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in 2016-17, over 1.2 lakh were the offspring of single parents (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/single-parents). Their

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Bhavana Jaiswal is in Thane to get engaged.(Praful Gangurde/HT)

For 28-year-old Bhavana Jaiswal, growing up in an orphanage turned out to be better, she says, as she might not have become the person she is today if she had stayed with her parents.

Today, she works in Poland as the project head of a multinational company. Jaiswal is in the city to get engaged to Andres Schaufelberger, 33, a Swiss national.

“I was seven and my sister Priyanka was six when our father left us. My mother could not raise us and sent us to Ma Niketan - Society of the Helpers of Mary orphanage in Thane. My brother was merely two years old at the time and therefore stayed with my mother,” says Jaiswal.