Category: Germany

Italians continue to lead in the number of Russian adoptions

Source: http://rapsinews.com © RIA Novosti, Aleksei Naumov 10:01 03/07/2014 MOSCOW, July 3 (RAPSI) – Italians adopted 560 Russian children in 2013, the largest number among foreign countries, Russia’s Supreme Court said in a survey of adoptions by foreign parents or Russians living abroad. Last year, Russian courts approved the adoption of 1,232 of the 1,247 applications… Read more »

Inter-country adoptions come to haunt authorities after three decades

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com Stanley Pinto, TNN | Jun 7, 2013, 11.11 PM IST MANGALORE: The inter-country adoptions done in the 70’s have come back to haunt authorities here after three decades. A 37-year-old Indian born German national has lodged a complaint of kidnap, sale and sending her abroad under the guise of inter-country adoption without any proper… Read more »

German hopes to find her mother

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com Stanley Pinto, TNN | Mar 23, 2013, 06.48 AM IST MANGALORE: Chaya Maria Schupp was six when she was adopted by a German couple. At 36, she still yearns to know who she really is, and find the woman who gave birth to her but gave her up, and why. Chaya suspects something amiss…. Read more »

Scourge of Child Trafficking

Date: 2013-03-02 Indian bi-lingual magazine. Cover Story is about “Foreign Adoptions” in India and story is rooted in recent 19th Feb Press Conference organised by Against Child Trafficking (ACT) and HAQ Centre for Child Rights. Page 14 to 18. Full article in English HERE

Albtraum Adoption – Nightmare Adoption

Albtraum Adoption- Bulgarien Stern – EN They don’t know anything anymore about the child who is their child. They no longer mention its name, they call it“THE CHILD” Why the mediation of children from abroad for German parents often goes dramatically wrong Unofficial translation from German. Published in Stern Magazine, February 2013 They have not… Read more »

India: Family Secrets

Source: http://www.openthemagazine.com 15 September 2012 Cross-border adoption: the trauma of knowing one was given away at birth and the travails of trying to find out why BY Mihir Srivastava EMAIL AUTHOR(S) Tagged Under | adoption | birth | foster parents BELONGING THE QUEST Arun Dohle, in his foster father’s lap

Spread of ‘baby boxes’ in Europe alarms United Nations

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk UN says hatches in which unwanted newborn babies can be left contravene children’s rights to know and be cared for by parents Sunday 10 June 2012  United Nations is increasingly concerned at the spread in Europe of “baby boxes” where infants can be secretly abandoned by parents, warning that the practice “contravenes the… Read more »

Call for re-opening ‘Prem Nivasa’ case

Source: http://www.asiantribune.com Mon, 2012-01-23 02:32 — editor By Janaka Perera Colombo, 23 January, (Asiantribune.com): Have all doubts about the case involving Blessed Teresa’s Home, ‘Prem Nivasa’ run by the Missionaries of Charity at Rawatawatte Moratuwa in Sri Lanka been cleared? According to the Patriotic Bhikku Front, Chinthana Parshadaya and Sinhala Bauddhayo the speed in which the… Read more »