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Mayura Janwalkar / DNA
February 6, 2010
Mumbai: Five years after the Bombay high court granted the guardianship of two abandoned minors to a US couple, it revoked its order in case of the older child observing that the couple had failed to fulfill their responsibility towards the child.
The adoption of children from Nepal should be suspended, the international body that governs adoption between countries has recommended.
February 4, 2010 / BBC News
An investigation found children from remote areas were falsely declared to be orphans and put up for adoption without their parents knowledge.
A draft report by The Hague Conference on Private International Law urges Nepal to take steps to prevent abuses.
The more I read about the ten Baptists, waiting for word in Haiti, the more I think about Scott and Karen Banks. The Banks thought they too were providing better lives for poor children. In fact, they chose to make it their business to take poor children, from poor parents, and sell those Samoan children to those willing (and able) to pay the tens of thousands of dollars necessary to obtain a so-called orphaned child.
I think this is a great idea. A whole generation of children are lost with no relatives, cousins, aunts!
NURTURING ROOTS Carlos Lopez and Liz Johnson pursuing leads to relatives of foster children.
The Daily Mail
January 26, 2010
A new web craze where young girls make their virtual characters adopt children as fashion accessories has outraged parents' groups.
The controversial My Minx game also sees girls as young as seven giving their characters contraceptives and morning-after pills.
By Cathy C. Yamsuan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
February 1, 2010
MANILA, Philippines—Humanitarian workers using DNA tests are offering to help track down Filipino babies illegally sent to Singapore for adoption in affluent countries.
By Joseph Guyler Delva / Reuters
January 30, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian police have arrested 10 U.S. citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a suspected illicit adoption scheme, authorities said on Saturday.
By Brett Popplewell
January 30, 2010 / thestar.com
PORT-AU-PRINCE–Kidnapped children. Multiple rapes. Gang violence. A burgeoning black market. And the unknown whereabouts of 4,000 criminals. These are but a few of the problems overwhelming police and peacekeepers tasked with maintaining order in a post-apocalyptic Haiti.
Almost a third of adults think children over the age of 12 are in care because they have done something wrong, according to a new survey.
January 28, 2010 / BBC News
The results of the poll have been published by Who Cares? Scotland which has launched a campaign to tackle such discrimination.
The charity said that for too long care home youngsters have been bullied or written off.
By Cameron Lucadou-Wells
November 25, 2009 / knowxjournal.com.au
POLICE have begun an investigation into claims that wards of state were bashed to death and then secretly buried at the former Bayswater Boys Home in the 1950s.
Rod Braybon, 65, of Garfield, was interviewed by Victoria Police homicide squad detectives last Thursday over his claims.
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South Korean parents of children adopted overseas call for support for single mothers and children, and an end to overseas adoption from South Korea.
By Alexander Bratersky
January 29, 2010 / The Moscow Times
A U.S.-Russian government commission on civil society distanced itself from discussing human rights issues at its first meeting, focusing instead on corruption and the adoption of Russian children.
January 30, 2010 / The Portugal News Online
Portuguese aid teams have set up a temporary centre to shelter Haitian orphans and children separated from parents, as international concern mounts over the possibility of child trafficking in the wake of the massive earthquake.
Have any of adoptee’s ever had an adoptive family member or as in my case a step-adoptive family member use the sick perverted Eugenic theory to encourage others to think badly about you?
Is my case unique?
Translated from original French article
Jan 23, 2010 / Cyberpresse
The lucrative trade in newborns was fueled by an adoption frenzy that saw government-run orphanages paying for children who they then made available to Westerners.
January 24, 2010/ Los Angelos Times
Of 36 recommendations after child deaths, no progress was made on 17. Others were only discussed, the agency said.
By John Sullivan
Inquirer Staff Writer
When a child dies under the care of the city's Department of Human Services, a team of experts within the agency investigates, pinpointing failings in the system and suggesting improvements.
But more than half the time, those suggestions are ignored.
SPECIAL REPORT: Private contractors that provide services to children get little oversight by the agency, a review finds.
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