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Right to know - A new law will give children of anonymous births the right to know their mother's identity. But some experts criticize the law for not abolishing so-called "baby hatches."

Did I inherit my blue eyes from my mother? Is my father also a late riser? How much do I resemble my siblings? For most people, knowledge of their family heritage is essential to their identity.

In Germany, a system of so-called "baby hatches" allows desperate mothers to anonymously turn over their newborns to hospitals. These infants, raised by adoptive parents, usually have no way to learn about their biological parents later in life.

Supporters, such as some church representatives, see baby hatches as a way to prevent the deaths of unwanted children. But critics like the German Ethics Council argue that all children have the right know where they come from.

 

Schröder supports the new lawImage: Reuters

EU calls for care of children in state institutions of family and community

EU calls for care of children in state institutions of family and community

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European Union, through the European Commission and child protection associations, sky Romania institutionalization of vulnerable children and making a transition to ensure them a family and community care so that children have more chances to develop harmoniously and subsequently integrate into society.

Wednesday, October 2nd, this issue has Orphansbeen discussed at an international seminar, which was attended by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly, Ministry of European Funds, European Expert Group (EEG) UNICEF Romania and Hope and Homes for Children Romania.

AdoptionLand Incest Continues: Craig Juntunen from Both Ends Burning shills for Gladney

Craig Juntunen, the most dangerous man nin Adopton Land

Speaking of Gladney., as I did the other day…

…guess who’s shilling for Dame Edna!.

None other than the most dangerous man in AdoptionLand today, Craig Juntunen, founder and president of Both Ends Burning. and producer of Stuck, a film on the “orphan crisis” constructed to make your heart bleed and fill BEB’s pockets full. of sob story money for child harvesting..

On Wednesday October 9, Juntunen will keynote the annual New York Metropolitan Gladney Family Association fundraiser/cocktail party at the University Club in midtown. . (Gladneyators drink? WWHSD? What would the home studier do?)

Vulnerable Children Should Benefit from Family and Community Based Services

(with Philip Hat - EMPL)??

Vulnerable Children Should Benefit from Family and Community Based Services

Bucharest - October 2, 2013. To speed up the transition from Institutional Care to Family and Community Based Services through the use of Structural Funds and other EU financial instruments, the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly along with the Ministry of European Funds, in partnership with the European Expert Group (EEG), UNICEF Romania and Hope and Homes for Children Romania held on Wednesday, October 2, 2013, an International Seminar.

At the event, representatives of the European Commission – DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and DG Regio, European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care (EEG) experts and representatives of Romanian public and private agencies showcased good practice models and lessons learnt from the Structural Funds programming period 2007 – 2013 while making an overview of deinstitutionalisation.

“The child place is within the family not in an institution, no matter how good the institution is looking like. This is the reason for, from the very beginning of the reform in the child protection system, our main purpose was to close the big institutions and to ensure the wellbeing of children in the state care. Nonetheless, it is our duty to continue to prevent child separation from his family, especially by developing community based services. Only through well organized and efficient community based services the family can have a real support in rising and caring for its children”, declared Mariana Câmpeanu, the Minister of Labour, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly.

Adoptie Overleg Dutch Parliament

Wel heb ik vorige week, 24 september, het

onderzoeksrapport mogen ontvangen via de ambassade. Dit is zo recent dat ik nog niet in

staat ben geweest om de Kamer over deze uitkomsten schriftelijk te berichten. We hebben

daarna ook nog aanvullende telefonische informatie ontvangen.

Deze uitkomsten uit het rapport van 24 september laten zien dat er in het kader van het

Cappellari: "L’auspicio è che i parlamentari rumeni arrivino finalmente a riaprire le adozioni internazionali"

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Da Ferrara alla Romania per salvare 70mila orfani

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Rehoming Bulgarian child

Debby said:

October 17, 2013 at 2:48 pm

To: KR Taylor

That was not really a fair question.

Jenny WAS NOT born to her family and that “initial bond”, a mother has to her own newborn baby, cannot be compared to adopting any child who is not yours, biologically. Bonds take time to form. Many of these children are so mentally damaged from the lack of love and attention, they are not able to bond to anyone.

Cold War Kids The international dispute over Russia’s orphans

LETTER FROM MONTANA — From the October 2013 issue

Cold War Kids

The international dispute over Russia’s orphans

By Irina Aleksander

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Wat de schildpad, de bij en Vietnam met elkaar gemeen hebben: adoptie

Wat de schildpad, de bij en Vietnam met elkaar gemeen hebben: adoptie

Posted on 1 oktober 2013 by leenvandamme

Vietnam stelde het Vlaams Centrum voor Adoptie in december 2012 een vernieuwde samenwerking voor, naar aanleiding van de ratificering van het Verdrag van Den Haag. Enkele maanden later kwam de vraag of we hiervoor op werkbezoek konden komen, dit om verdere afspraken te maken over de te volgen werkwijze en een Memorandum of Understanding te ondertekenen. Eind september was het zover. Bij vertrek lazen we in de krant het bemoedigende nieuws dat tijdens ons verblijf een tyfoon over Vietnam zou trekken. Dat klonk alvast veelbelovend.

De eerste dag van het bezoek bestond uit een afspraak op het Ministerie van Justitie in Hanoi. Aan de poort werden we meteen tegengehouden. Ook onze uitnodigingsbrief, zelfs in het Vietnamees, kon de bewakers niet overtuigen. Pas toen we na een kwartier persoonlijk opgepikt werden mochten we het gebouw met allure betreden. Al snel werd duidelijk hoe formeel het bezoek was, Ariane en haar Vietnamees equivalent namen plaats op een rijkversierde stoel. In verdere volgorde van rang mochten de andere medewerkers plaatsnemen. Hiërarchie is allesbepalend, wanneer bijvoorbeeld een collega wat later aansluit, maar eigenlijk de derde in rang is, moet iedereen die op de derde plek en verder zit een plekje ‘lager’ gaan zitten.

Na de bespreking van de stevig juridisch uitgewerkte Vietnamese procedure werd onder het oog van de opgetrommelde fotografen het Memorandum of Understanding getekend. In de vernieuwde procedure wordt er veel autonomie gegeven aan de provinciale overheid. Zij nemen, anders dan voorheen, de beslissing of de kinderen in aanmerking komen voor adoptie. In het verleden werd deze beslissing overgelaten aan de weeshuizen, de controle of een kind effectief adoptabel was verliep hierdoor moeilijk, ook geldinmenging van adoptieouders op prospectie kon toen niet uitgesloten worden.