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2 weeks ago

Foster Parents Fight for Custody Amid Baby Trafficking Scandal

Hyderabad: A group of couples are fighting a legal battle for six months to claim children, who were rescued by the police and placed in a state home. “We have been trying to explain to the authorities that we are not criminals but are victims cheated by the traffickers who took advantage of our situation, gained our trust and made …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Dutch gov't wants to phase out adoption from abroad in six years

NL Times

Prospective adoptive parents will have another six years to complete their ongoing procedure for the adoption of a child from abroad. Earlier this year, the government already stopped accepting new intercountry adoption applications. The Kamer wanted to do away with this form of adoption after a devastating report from 2021 about numerous abuses that had been going on for years …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Telangana HC Directs CWC to Decide on Kids’ Custody

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court directed the child welfare committee to issue orders expeditiously to decide who has to take care of the 15 children placed in its custody — the biological parents or those who adopted the infants. The court also directed the authorities to decide on the applications filed by adoptive parents seeking adoption of the children within …

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1 month ago

Adoptive parents arrested on suspicion of murder, torture in death of 10-year-old Moreno Valley boy

LA Times

The adoptive parents of a 10-year-old boy have been arrested on charges of murder, torture and child abuse in connection with his death, Riverside County sheriff’s officials said. Deputies arrested Alejandra Marin, 51, and Juan Sanchez Moreno, 59, after responding to a call on Nov. 21 about a juvenile in medical distress at a home in Moreno Valley, according to …

1 month, 1 week ago

Why Maternity Benefit Available To Adoptive Mothers Only If Adopted Child Is Below 3 Months Old? Supreme Court Asks Centre

Live Law

The Supreme Court today sought response from the Union in a petition challenging the provision of the Maternity Benefit Act, 2017 as per which maternity benefits are available to an adoptive mother only if the child in aged below 3 months. The bench of Justices Pardiwala and Pankaj Mithal was hearing a PIL filed by an adoptive mother challenging S. …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Supreme Court seeks Centre's reply on restrictive benefits for adoptive mothers

India Today

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the central government to clarify its policy on maternity benefits for adoptive mothers, specifically in cases where the adopted child is below three years of age. CURRENT LEGAL FRAMEWORK Under the existing provisions of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, adoptive mothers are eligible for 12 weeks of maternity leave only if their adopted child …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Viewers of Lord Lucan documentary say the investigation was 'a waste of time' as they missed out a key detail

Daily Mail

Viewers of BBC Lord Lucan documentary have slammed the investigation as 'a waste of time' as they missed out a key detail until the end. Richard John Bingham – better known as Lord Lucan – vanished into thin air, from East Sussex, just one night after the family's nanny, Sandra Rivett, had been found bludgeoned to death in their home …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Wealthy Christian couple who adopted son from Haiti abandon him in Jamaica after discovering his secret habit

Daily Mail

A wealthy Christian couple abandoned their adopted Haitian son at a behavioral school in Jamaica after learning he'd been watching porn - then refused to pick him up again even after the horrendous abuse of the academy he'd been sent to was revealed. Elijah Goldman, pictured at a court hearing in Michigan on September 11, 2024, was abandoned by his …

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4 months ago

Paris Paralympics: Spanish athlete with albinism fled Mali, now chases Games gold

ABC

When Adiaratou Iglesias crossed the finish line at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, she did not know she had bagged a gold in the women's 100-metre T13 race until she was told. The visually-impaired Spanish athlete, who goes by Adi and also won a 400m silver in Tokyo, said she now dreamed of hearing her adoptive family shout "gold" when …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Woman, 61, is reunited with brother she never knew she had 60 years after they were separated when their 'cruel' adoptive parents sent him back to the children's home

Daily Mail

Tegan, from west London, discovered she had a biological brother in her forties A woman who was separated from her brother after their adoptive family sent him back to a children's home has finally been reunited with him 60 years later on Long Lost Family. Tegan Cornish, from west London, reunited with her blood brother after 60 years of separation …

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9 months ago

Forced adoption meant Marilyn had to go undercover to attend her own daughter's wedding

ABC

Marilyn attended her daughter's wedding, but had to pretend she was the photographer's assistant. Marilyn Rulyancich's baby was taken from her at birth, but she never gave up hope of finding her — hatching an audacious undercover plot to realise her dream. "I felt like they couldn't stop me, I had to find her," Marilyn says. Marilyn's daughter Audra was …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Can an adopted child be 'returned?' Here's what rules say

Firstpost

Two cases of couples from Uttar Pradesh and Kerala wanting to return their adopted children have hit the headlines recently. Let’s look at the rules, what the courts said and why experts say ‘returned children’ are seemingly becoming a bigger problem Two unusual cases have hit the headlines recently. “Many Indian parents tried to adopt older children, but they realised …

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1 year, 1 month ago

How to support a child through the emotional journey of adoption

Live Mint

In 2011, Srobona Das and her husband took a flight to Ranchi to meet their adopted daughter, Naina, for the first time. Hence, it is important for parents, educators and communities to understand and support our children.” In an article for Verywell Mind, a US-based website that provides mental health and wellness information by health professionals, therapist Theodora Blanchfield says …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Sean Tuohy refutes Michael Oher’s ‘Blind Side’ lawsuit, defends use of conservatorship

LA Times

Sean Tuohy is refuting Michael Oher’s allegation that the Tuohy family tricked the NFL star who inspired “The Blind Side” into a conservatorship instead of adopting him — allegations that Tuohy finds “insulting.” The sports commentator said he is “devastated” by Oher’s Monday filing in a Tennessee probate court that alleges Tuohy and his wife, Leigh Anne, “enriched themselves at …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Discrimination between biological & adoptive mothers: SC agrees to examine the law

India Today

For Karnataka-based Hamsaanandini Nanduri, an adoptive mother since 2017, bringing up her two young children was an uphill task because of the discriminatory provisions under the Maternity Benefit Act. WHAT DOES THE ACT SAY The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, as of date, grants maternity leave of 12 weeks only for adoptive mothers who have adopted a child that is less …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Biological parents of child given for adoption file habeas corpus plea in Bombay HC

India Today

The Bombay High Court has granted five weeks' time to a Mumbai couple to get a stay from another bench of the high court on an order of the Mumbai Civil court, which had directed them to return their adopted child to its biological parents. The bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sharmila Deshmukh were hearing a habeas corpus …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Why is the law on maternity leave facing a challenge from some adoptive mothers in the Supreme Court? - The Hindu

The Hindu

The story so far: The Supreme Court of India last week agreed to hear a petition challenging the constitutional validity of Section 5 of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, which entitles adoptive and surrogate mothers to only 12 weeks of maternity leave, and that too only if the child is under three months of age. The Maternity Benefits Act, 2017 …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Refusing Divorced Woman to Adopt Child as She is Working Reflects Medieval Conservative Mindset: Bombay HC

News 18

The Bombay High Court has said refusing a divorced woman to adopt a child on the ground that she is working and hence would not be able to give personal attention to the child reflects a “mindset of medieval conservative concepts”. The HC passed the order on the petition filed by Shabnamjahan Ansari, a teacher by profession, challenging an order …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Bombay HC berates 'medieval concept' of not letting a single working woman adopt a child

India Today

The Bombay High Court has observed that refusing a divorcee to adopt a minor girl on the grounds that she was a working woman and hence would not be able to give personal attention to the child reflected a mindset of the medieval conservative concepts. Ansari had challenged an order passed by a civil court in Bhusawal in March 2022, …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz had a horror start to life but did it matter at trial?

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dr Kenneth Jones, who is regarded …

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2 years, 3 months ago

People who have been adopted call for changes to protect their human rights

ABC

For 20-odd years, Graham Rossiter had been driving past his biological mother's home in a small regional West Australian town, completely unaware of her existence. "At the time, my father was quite ill and he called me over one Sunday afternoon and said 'can you come over, I've got something I need to tell you,'" Mr Rossiter said. In Mr …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen

Associated Press

BISBEE, Ariz. — MJ was a tiny, black-haired girl, just 5 years old, when her father admitted to his bishop that he was sexually abusing her. In 1995, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints established a “help line” for bishops and other church leaders seeking guidance on reporting allegations of child sexual abuse. It’s the most important thing …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Adoption UK: Woman reveals how a Facebook group helped her reunite with her birth mother in Chile after 44 years

The Independent

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2 years, 7 months ago

A child star at 7, in prison at 22. Then she vanished. What happened to Lora Lee Michel?

LA Times

When Leslie Hannah and her sister were children, their aunt, Lora Lee Michel, appeared to them as a spectral figure, becoming real only when she appeared on screen. “I don’t think there’s a time I didn’t know about Lora Lee,” Wright Isaacs’ youngest daughter, Allison Wallace, 50, told me. “The ‘retirement’ of Lora Lee Michel, 9, the little screen actress …

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Foster Parents Fight for Custody Amid Baby Trafficking Scandal

Dutch gov't wants to phase out adoption from abroad in six years

Telangana HC Directs CWC to Decide on Kids’ Custody

Adoptive parents arrested on suspicion of murder, torture in death of 10-year-old Moreno Valley boy

Why Maternity Benefit Available To Adoptive Mothers Only If Adopted Child Is Below 3 Months Old? Supreme Court Asks Centre

Supreme Court seeks Centre's reply on restrictive benefits for adoptive mothers

Viewers of Lord Lucan documentary say the investigation was 'a waste of time' as they missed out a key detail

Wealthy Christian couple who adopted son from Haiti abandon him in Jamaica after discovering his secret habit

Paris Paralympics: Spanish athlete with albinism fled Mali, now chases Games gold

Woman, 61, is reunited with brother she never knew she had 60 years after they were separated when their 'cruel' adoptive parents sent him back to the children's home

Forced adoption meant Marilyn had to go undercover to attend her own daughter's wedding

Can an adopted child be 'returned?' Here's what rules say

How to support a child through the emotional journey of adoption

Sean Tuohy refutes Michael Oher’s ‘Blind Side’ lawsuit, defends use of conservatorship

Discrimination between biological & adoptive mothers: SC agrees to examine the law

Biological parents of child given for adoption file habeas corpus plea in Bombay HC

Why is the law on maternity leave facing a challenge from some adoptive mothers in the Supreme Court? - The Hindu

Refusing Divorced Woman to Adopt Child as She is Working Reflects Medieval Conservative Mindset: Bombay HC

Bombay HC berates 'medieval concept' of not letting a single working woman adopt a child

Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz had a horror start to life but did it matter at trial?

People who have been adopted call for changes to protect their human rights

Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen

Adoption UK: Woman reveals how a Facebook group helped her reunite with her birth mother in Chile after 44 years

A child star at 7, in prison at 22. Then she vanished. What happened to Lora Lee Michel?