As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war zones, Jennifer Morgan is not someone easily shaken. But even she admits she was shocked by some of the orphanages she visited recently in Haiti.
‘Outside it is a sunny day. Then you step inside the walls of an orphanage and realise that the children there have been exposed to rapes, severe beatings, emotional and mental trauma,’ she said. It was even more disturbing, she added, than the damaged children she came across amid the deadly mayhem of Darfur.
But perhaps the most troubling thing is that these tragic scenes in Haiti are not unusual. In dozens of places around the world, unregulated orphanages have become a boom business trading off Western guilt. Our desire to help is backfiring in the most dreadful fashion. (more…)
The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners
Ethiopian adoptions: German Higher Regional Court denies recognition
On 31 May 2010 the German District Court of Düsseldorf ruled that an Ethiopian adoption may not be accepted under German law, as it is obviously incompatible with the fundamental principles of German law, in particular with the fundamental rights. This decision was was appealed by the adoptive parents.
On 18 January 2011 the German Higher Regional Court (Dusseldorf) confirmed this ruling. This cannot not be appealed. (more…)
Polémique en France autour de l’adoption des enfants haïtiens
Pour 318 enfants haïtiens, une nouvelle vie commence. Adoptés par des familles françaises, 114 sont arrivés le 22 décembre 2010 à bord d’un premier avion affrété par le gouvernement. A la veille du Noël, le 24 décembre, 90 autres enfants seront rapatriés. Tous bénéficient d’une procédure d’adoption spéciale mise en place par la France et Haïti.
Ils ont attendu onze mois. Pour les parents adoptifs, ce sont « les plus belles fêtes de Noël que l’on puisse s’imaginer ». Enfin réunis, ils peuvent tenir leurs nouveaux petits dans les bras. Le pédopsychiatre Pierre Lévy-Sousson comprend l’émotion que suscite ce rapatriement accéléré. Néanmoins, il critique sévèrement le processus. Selon lui, l’arrivée de ces enfants haïtiens qui d’ailleurs ne sont pas des orphelins, ils ont toujours leurs parents, s’est faite dans la précipitation. (more…)
Adopted in 1973, reunited with mother in 2010
Published: Thursday, Nov 18, 2010, 3:50 IST
By Mayura Janwalkar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
Mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
—Marion C. Garretty, American author
When Arun Dohle, India-born German national, started on his mission to find his biological mother, it seemed an impossible task. But after 17 years of litigation and connecting several dots, thirty-seven-year-old Dohle was reunited with his mother in Pune on Wednesday. (more…)
In search of adoption, childless German couples go abroad
22.09.2010
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Couples are increasingly going abroad to find children
Nowadays in Germany, people who are hoping to adopt a child are more likely than before to search abroad. Sometimes their reasons are altruistic, but other times it just comes down to one thing: supply and demand.
Ralf Bockstedte, a successful lawyer from Essen who represents soccer clubs and players, said he and his wife Tanja decided 15 years ago to have children, but were “shattered” when they discovered they could not do it biologically. They first decided to adopt a child four years ago, but never did they consider an adoption within Germany.
“To adopt within Germany in our age is quite difficult,” he said. “The child would probably have been something from 10 years on. And we rather wanted a baby.” (more…)
Martyrium statt Familienidylle
Source:http://www.sueddeutsche.de
Ein Ehepaar aus Fürstenfeldbruck steht wegen Misshandlung von Schutzbefohlenen vor Gericht. Die missbrauchten Mädchen haben unter Tränen ausgesagt.
20.09.2010, 18:03 2010-09-20 18:03:35
Im Prozess gegen ein Ehepaar aus dem Landkreis, das sich derzeit wegen der Misshandlung von Schutzbefohlenen vor dem Amtsgericht in Fürstenfeldbruck verantworten muss, haben am Freitag erneut die beiden mittlerweile erwachsenen Adoptivtöchter als Zeuginnen ausgesagt. Beim Betrachten von Bildern aus mehreren Fotoalben, die nach Ansicht der Verteidiger des Ehepaares ein idyllisches Familienleben dokumentieren sollten, brachen die beiden 22 und 24 Jahre alten Frauenmehrmals in Tränen aus. (more…)
The legacy of forced adoptions
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk,
Marten Rolff, Sunday 22 August 2010 20.30 BST
German families torn apart by forced adoptions during the cold war are still looking for answers – and their lost relatives. Katrin Behr was separated from her mother as a child. It took exactly four minutes to steal Andreas Laake’s baby son – that was the length of the court hearing that swept away his paternity rights. Some 26 years later Laake can still recall every detail of the trial: his aching wrists cuffed behind his back; the (more…)
Newspapers reported it wrongly, says KMMSG
Source: http://www.hindu.com
‘Supreme Court did not allow petitioner to seek information’
It pertains to a case of adoption by a German couple
Pune: In a complete turn of events, Pune-based organisation Kusumabai Motichand Mahila Seva Gram (KMMSG), a party to the adoption of Arun Dohle by a German couple, Michel and Gertrude Dohle, has said that the Supreme Court had not given Arun, a German national, the approval to seek information about his biological mother, as reported by several newspapers earlier this week. (more…)
SC gets hold of ‘missing’ police report in Dohle case
Published: Friday, Aug 13, 2010, 3:51 IST
By Rakesh Bhatnagar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
Arun Dohle, an Indian adopted by a German couple 37 years ago, has disputed a police report which omitted the name of NCP leader Sharad Pawar’s brother, Pratap, as having any connection with him. Dohle has been searching for his biological roots, particularly his mother. (more…)
