First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi Many people tried for years to dismiss ACT for our strict UNCRC approach. We were considered “radical”. Researchers, Law Professors, adult adoptee leaders, government officers ,journalists and of course adoption agencies and… Read more »
Category: ACT in the news
When filial love broke barriers of time, distance
Source: http://m.deccanherald.com ASHWINI Y S, BENGALURU, OCT 25, 2016 Swedish woman Jyothi Svah (second from left, foreground) with her new-found family, including her biological father Dasharath Rao, her brother Maruthi, Rao’s second wife, their daughter and granddaughter. “The pain I had endured for the last 23 years has now… Read more »
Adopted Indian woman meets biological father in Bengaluru after 23 years in an emotional reunion
Source: http://www.thenewsminute.com As the father and daughter hugged, a moment of catharsis, that was much needed by both, unfolded. Monalisa Das| Monday, October 24, 2016 – 19:38 Jyothi hugs her father after 23 years It was a teary reunion of a father and a daughter on Monday afternoon in Chamrajpet… Read more »
Stolen or snatched after birth: The ugly truth about adoption in India
Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com Avantika Mehta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aug 31, 2016 Under the adoption law, the Child Welfare Committee is in charge of ensuring that kids put up for adoption are “legally-free” and do not have parents looking for them.. (Dijeshwar Singh/HT?File Photo) When she was told that she had delivered a stillborn baby, 15-year-old… Read more »
Book review: Other People’s Children/Andre folks børn
Date: 2016-08-14 Source: https://www.saxo.com Katja Vesselbo Døssing, MA’s debuted as a writer in May 2016 with the thriller, “Other People’s Children”, People’s Press, 276 pages, is a striking criticism of the Danish adoption policy with thinly veiled references to the ever-present Indian case concerning abducted adopted children living in Denmark in which AC International Child Support… Read more »
Guest Blogger: Anusja “official”
2 August 2016 What is the definition of “OFFICIAL”? I can tell that in the setting of adoption it is a vague and a grey terminology. There clearly is room for interpretation, which should not be the case – as we are talking about human beings. So humanity must be there. However, in adoption this gets… Read more »
Remember adopted Amy? Now she lives on the street and talk to us about her terrible fate
GOFUNDME Source: http://www.bt.dk Google Translation The Danish adoptee, 16-year-old Amy Steen who originally is from Ethiopia, fled this January to Ethiopia because she missed her biological family and felt betrayed by the Danish authorities. Now her situation is so critical that she sends a heartbreaking message for help – she tells BT in her first interview… Read more »
Germany-based adopted woman’s search for her mother ends in Pune
Source: http://indianexpress.com Shireen Alpa Potthast, a social worker in Germany, tracks down her biological mother in a village Written by Garima Rakesh Mishra | Pune | Updated: June 9, 2016 3:04 am Shireen Alpa Potthast at a restaurant in the city after meeting her mother. (Express Photo by Arul Horizon) Sipping a glass of fresh lime… Read more »
Politicians close their eyes for adoptions backing
Source: http://politiken.dk (Google translation) KRONIKEN 31 MAY. 2016 One country after another closed down adoption because of suspected corruption and child trafficking. Yet Danish politicians are more concerned with ensuring childless families may adopt than to scrutinize the cases where adoption has gone wrong. ADOPTION. Why the Danish politicians do not examine the dark side of… Read more »
IS ADOPTION A POINT OF NO RETURN?
Source: http://www.punemirror.in By Darshana Daga & Mubarak Ansari, Pune Mirror | May 27, 2016, 02.30 AM IST Union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi released the draft rules of the Juvenile Justice Act in New Delhi on Wednesday. City child rights activists, lawyers question WCD minister’s draft rule preventing adopted kids from going back… Read more »
