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Source: http://www.mainpost.de SCHWEINFURT Gericht rügt Blauäugigkeit der Pflegemutter Am Landgericht hat am Donnerstag eine mit Spannung erwartete Berufsverhandlung begonnen, die nicht nur strafrechtliche Bedeutung hat, sondern auch ein Politikum ist. Verantworten müssen sich eine ehemals in Hammelburg lebende gebürtige Rumänin und ihre Tochter. Der Hauptvorwurf: Kinderhandel. Des Weiteren stehen Betrugsvorwürfe in Zusammenhang mit Spendengeldern im Raum. Das Amtsgericht Bad Kissingen hatte die 58-Jährige wegen versuchten Kinderhandels zu einer Freiheitsstrafe von einem Jahr und zwei Monaten verurteilt, ausgesetzt zur Bewährung. Ihrer 29-jährigen Tochter wurde wegen einer Ordnungswidrigkeit in Bezug auf das Adoptionsvermittlungsgesetz eine Geldbuße von 120 Euro auferlegt. Beide hatten Berufung eingelegt. Der Staatsanwaltschaft war das Urteil zu milde. Sie hatte für die 58-Jährige auf eine Freiheitsstrafe ohne Bewährung plädiert und sah auch ihre Tochter des Kinderhandels schuldig… |
Source: http://www.swex.de "Kindskauf", Pflege oder Adoption? Zwei aus Rumänien stammende Frauen sollen einen Menschenhandel eingefädelt haben Schweinfurt / Bad Kissingen / Zeitlofs (01.07.2010) - Bei seinen Pflegeeltern in Zeitlofs lebt das bald vier Jahre alte Mädchen aus Rumänien auch heute noch. Im Dezember 2006 kam es in den Landkreis Bad Kissingen - damals aber unter höchst dubiosen Umständen, die danach das Gericht beschäftigten und es in diesen Tagen schon wieder tun. Denn gegen zwei aus Rumänien stammende Frauen, die maßgeblich beteiligt waren bei der Vermittlung des Kindes nach Unterfranken, läuft vor der 2. Kleinen Strafkammer des Landgerichts Schweinfurt derzeit das Berufungsverfahren. Verurteilt wurden die beiden in erster Instanz vom Amtsgericht Bad Kissingen im Januar 2009 wegen versuchtem Kinderhandel, Betrug und einer Ordnungswidrigkeit. Der ganze Fall ist äußerst kompliziert und gestaltete sich auch am ersten Verhandlungstag in Schweinfurt langwierig. Fakt ist, dass das Mädchen als Säugling vor rund dreieinhalb Jahren aus Osteuropa, genau genommen aus einem kleinen Dorf nahe der rumänischen Stadt Temesvar nach Zeitlofs zu den Pflegeeltern kam. Ob aber nur zunächst vorübergehend eben zur Pflege und für eine Bahandlung, weil es erkrankt war, oder mit dem Hintergedanken, es für eine Adotion dauerhaft hierzubehalten, das ist eine der vielen offenen Fragen, die sogar überregionale Medien bewegt haben und einen in Schweinfurt anwesenden Reporter aus Rumänien, der sich des Falls annahm… |
Source: Google Translation from Russian: Germans illegally adopting children from Russia ICCO contributed to the illegal adoption of 30 Russian orphans and children from disadvantaged families. In Germany, began an investigation of criminal cases against the Hamburg firm International Child Care Organisation (ICCO), suspected of organizing illegal adoptions of children by the Germans from Russia. In the case of detained three suspects, two women and one man. They are accused of trafficking in children. According to prosecutors in Germany, ICCO contributed to the illegal adoption of 30 Russian orphans and children from disadvantaged families, whose age is today from 5 to 10 years. The company did not have a license for the relevant work in Russia. Organization of International Child's Care continued its activities despite the fact that had been denied a license 4 years ago. At the same time, from a formal point of view, children have been adopted in accordance with the law. Thus, adoptive parents should not worry that they parted with their children. The decision of the authorities of children will not be returned to Russia, they are allowed to remain in German families. For the adoption of all 30 children citizens of Germany in 2003-2006 paid ICCO 475,000 euros - from 13 thousand to 20 thousand per child, writes RIA Novosti. More than half of that amount went to the American adoption agency that took a work permit in Russia. That is what the agency was in contact with representatives of Russian authorities. Criminals have found kids in poor and troubled families and in fact "to resell the goods in Germany. Adoption procedure was carried out with violations: foster parents were sending money to the personal account of the leader ICCO Eva-Maria Hofer. She gained prominence in Germany in 2004, when scolded Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for the adoption of a small Victorian orphanage in St. Petersburg. Hofer insisted that the politician is too old for such a step. Later, investigators found that fraudsters will review the applications and from persons over Schroeder. Sam Schroeder in 2006 with his wife Doris Kepf be adopted in St. Petersburg has one child - a boy orphaned Gregory. ICCO staff did not recognize his guilt. They can face imprisonment of between six months to ten years. Will there be brought to justice the American agency, are not reported. At the same time, the Commissioner for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov believes that the trend of recent years, when the Russian adoption on foreign adoptions is increasing quite quickly, within a few years will keep all children in Russia. Maybe in 5-10 years, foreign adoption will disappear altogether. "We can not give our children to the world" - said the Commissioner for Children's Rights... |
NDR exklusiv Die Kinder dürfen bei ihren Adoptiveltern bleiben - egal wie der Prozess ausgeht. (Archivfoto) In dem Fall geht es um kleine Kinder aus Russland, die zwischen 2003 und 2006 von Paaren in Deutschland adoptiert wurden. "Die Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage erhoben wegen 30 Fällen von verbotener Kindervermittlung. Hierbei handelt es sich überwiegend um Mädchen und Jungen, die heute schätzungsweise zwischen fünf und zehn Jahre alt sind… |
Source: http://www.taz.de
Der verlorene Sohn AUSLANDSADOPTION Eine Familie in Äthiopien hat viele Kinder und kein Geld, um sie zu ernähren. Eine deutsche Familie hat Geld und will ein Kind. Zwischen ihnen vermittelt eine Agentur. Ein Geschäft mit der HoffnungVON GRETA TAUBERT UND BENJAMIN REUTER Was hat er nur getan? Abadi Kebede* verharrt zusammengekauert auf einem Holzschemel. Er will nicht mehr über die Sache reden. Will sich nicht mehr an die Details erinnern. Will sich nicht mehr schuldig fühlen. Es ändert ja doch nichts daran, dass er in dieser runden Lehmhütte mit Strohdach wohnt, in der dichter Rauch eines Holzfeuers hängt. Seine Kleidung ist zerrissen und hat die gleiche rotbraune Farbe wie der Lehm, aus dem er sein Haus bei Shinshizo im Süden Äthiopiens gebaut hat. Das Geld seiner Tagelöhner-Arbeit in einer Holzfabrik reicht nicht für neue Hemden - es reicht nicht einmal, um seine Familie satt zu bekommen. "Von meinen fünf Kindern wohnt nur noch eines hier", sagt Kebede. Eins wird von der Großmutter aufgezogen, zwei sind bei der Schwester. Und das fünfte? "Die Leute hier sagen, ich hätte meinen Sohn nach Deutschland verkauft." Ein äthiopischer Vater will seinem Kind helfen Das ist die Geschichte des äthiopischen Jungen Edo*, der mit kaum drei Jahren aus seinem alten Leben gerissen wurde. Sein Weg in ein neues Leben verbindet einen Vater in Äthiopien, der auf ein besseres Leben hofft, mit einer deutschen Frau, die für ein gesundes Baby fast alles tun würde. Er erzählt von dem Überlebenskampf eines äthiopischen Waisenhauses, das seine Schützlinge zum Export freigibt, um andere Kinder versorgen zu können. Und er zeigt das Geschäftsmodell einer deutschen Adoptionsvermittlungsstelle, die in guter Absicht ein schlechtes System unterstützt. Sie alle haben große Hoffnungen an Edos Weg in ein anderes Leben geknüpft. Und sie alle wurden enttäuscht - wegen einer Lüge… |
The sonntaz of 15. May 2010
AUSLANDSADOPTIONEN EXPORTGUT KIND
HOPE
This Ethiopian Family has given a son to Germany. The father hoped that it would be better off there. That’s why he lied. Adoption agencies and orphanages claim such lies – at the intercountry adoption market.
One is missing
Export commodity child
A family in Ethiopia has many children and no money to feed them. A German family has money and wants a child. Human rights activists criticize the business of hope.
Human rights activists warn that the placement of orphans turned into a business.
AUGSBURG / SHINSHIZO taz | The number of children who are adopted abroad from Ethiopia has risen significantly in recent years. At least 3,000 children have been mediated in 2008 to countries like the USA, France or Spain. This is shown by an internal document from the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, which Sonntaz has. While German families in 2007 took 29 boys and girls from there, in 2008, according to the Federal Statistical Office it were already 47. From no other African country, more children come up for adoption to Germany.
Human rights activists warn that the placement of orphans becomes a business. They also criticize the role of adoption agencies that act as an intermediaries. "The high prices charged by the agencies for adoption are often not justified by actual costs. Foreign adoptions have thus become a market, "Brigitte Siebert of the central authority for international adoptions in the Hamburg told Sonntaz. In 2008 alone, worldwide around 37 million € circulated with adoptions from Ethiopia...
Source: Atlantic Times
‘Child wanted, cash paid’
The shady world of adoption – By Thomas Schuler
Former EU official Roelie Post campaigns worldwide against foreign adoption. She says the line between foreign adoption and child trafficking is too often blurred. She also sees potential danger in plans to introduce a trans national “European Adoption” authority.
When Roelie Post, along with a translator and a film crew, set off for Romania some months ago and visited Marineta Ciofu, the story the child rights’ activist heard was a very familiar one. Ciofu had no idea what had happened to her child. Almost 10 years ago, poverty had forced the single mother to leave her daughter in a children’s home. But it was her firm intention to get her back as soon as her situation improved. The last time she saw her daughter was when she was two-and-half years old...
Source: www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de Fragen nicht erwünscht Questions not to be asked The situation in many children’s homes in development countries are terrifying. If adoptions abroad is the right solution, is very controversial. |
Source: Deutschland verweigert indischer Leihmutter die Einreise Germany refuses the entry of the Indian surrogate mother |
Source: German twins' father makes desperate plea 27 Feb 2010, 1528 hrs IST Meanwhile, apparently unconcerned and notwithstanding the tense visa situation, the Indian judicial system continues to plod along at its usual pace, with the next hearing scheduled in the Supreme Court on March 16. Aggravating the situation is the snail's pace of Indian bureaucracy - although admittedly there is no legal guideline on the subject of citizenship (by birth) of surrogate children, the executive has been unwilling to resolve the matter of the twins by making a one-time exception on humanitarian grounds as it is reluctant to set a precedent.… |
Source: German surrogate twins: Government to relax adoption norms New Delhi, Feb 25 The government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it is willing to waive some of the restrictions in adopting children born through surrogacy to help a German couple adopt their twin sons born to an Indian surrogate mother in 2008. |
Source: IAWG urges better adoption process THT Online Issuing a press statement by the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu on behalf of the ad hoc IAWG, it recommended the implementation of all the 1993 Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption regulations, including implementing measures aimed at ensuring authenticity and accuracy of documents, promoting family preservation and, most importantly, safeguarding children’s well-being. The IAWG is composed of representatives from the diplomatic missions of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. The agency also promised to support the Nepali Government technical assistance on the issue. |
Source: Haïti, de l'adoption au trafic
LE MONDE | 10.02.10 | 13h35 • Mis à jour le 10.02.10 | 13h35 AFP/ROBERTO SCHMIDT From Adoption to Traffic Ten days after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, an employee of Unicef visited colleagues evacuated from Port-au-Prince at the Hotel Santo Domingo, on the seafront of the Dominican capital. A group of dozens of young Haitian children, with some foreigners, attracted his attention. Questioned, one of the leaders of the group replied that these children were adopted legally and they go to Germany. The UNICEF official asks in vain to see the documents of the children, and warns the National Council for Childhood and Adolescence (Conan), the Dominican body responsible for the protection of minors. A tensed discussion takes place that increases a notch with the arrival of the Ambassador of Germany in Saint-Domingue, Christian Germann. Conclusive, he confirms to have the permissions necessary for the depart of the group of children, both from the Haitian and Dominican authorities. He insists, and obtains that the group of 63 children aged under 5 years flies the same evening to Frankfurt. This stormy departure occurred after the directive of the Prime Minister of Haiti, Jean-Max Bellerive, dated 20 January, requiring his signature to any adoption of a child. None of those children who left for Germany had obtained this permission signed by the Prime Minister. In a note dated 17 January, the German Embassy in Port-au- Prince asked the Haitian government permission to evacuate "More than 40 children, in process of adoption from different Haitian orphanages, without presenting a list of names. In the end 63 Children were flown from Santo Domingo to Germany on the basis of a vague answer the Haitian Ministry of Social Affairs, dated January 18, and an authorization of the Dominican migration Service. "There were large movements of evacuation of children, totaling more than 1 000 juveniles, shortly after the earthquake. Some embassies called out, in a hasty manner, children in adoption procedures. This is why the Prime Minister had announced on 20 Januar, that no child leaves without his signature, "explains Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans, the UNICEF representative in Saint-Domingue. "The Earthquake is a great tragedy for the children of Haiti. Everything must be done in their interest. There are people of good intentions, but some take advantage of the disaster to engage in any kind of traffic, " she says... |
Date: 2010-01-29 Source: Koblenzer Adoptionsverein holte Kinder aus Erdbebengebiet in Haiti
Frankfurt They want to give orphans from Haiti the opportunity for a better life. Then the earthquake happened. After days of worry, 60 couples can finally embrace their adoptive children. For 60 Haitian children a new life in Germany has started. On Thursday they landed by plane at the Frankfurt airport. There their future adoptive parents were already waiting, they traveled from entire Germany. They ‘went over the last weeks through hell”, said Bea Garnier-Mertz, chair of the Koblenz Agency "Help a Child"… |
Source: Aid trickles to Haiti countryside after quake of the century Jan 24, 2010, 19:12 GMT … Concern was on the rise about the fate of the tiniest survivors, some of whom lost their parents, others of whom were in one of Haiti's many orphanages already in the midst of ongoing adoption procedures abroad. Lassegue told the German Press Agency dpa that the government has put a halt to new adoptions. Only those children who were already in the midst of adoptions would be allowed to leave. There have been increasing reports from the UN and elsewhere over trafficking in the disaster's smallest victims, who have been found wandering on their own through the country…. |
Source: Adopt surrogate twins, SC tells German couple Rakesh Bhatnagar / DNAMonday, January 18, 2010 23:57 IST The Supreme Court (SC) has asked the couple, Jan Balaz and Susan Lohle, if it would consider adopting Leonard and Nicolas. Germany does not recognise surrogate motherhood, but allows international adoption of children. Surrogacy is an offence in Germany and a Rs5,000-crore market in India. Solicitor general Gopal Subramanium told SC on Monday that the Indian government was sympathetic to the two-year-olds and agreed with the German government’s suggestion of adoption. If Leonard and Nicolas are adopted, the government could grant them temporary citizenship. The apex court has asked the couple to take a decision and Balaz and Lohle wanted Indian citizenship for the children since they were born to an Indian surrogate mother. The couple claims once the twins are given Indian citizenship, they would be automatically entitled to passports which would help them travel to Germany. Indian authorities turned down the plea, but the Gujarat high court last year directed the Centre to grant the children citizenship, saying they were entitled to it because they were born to a surrogate Indian mother. The Centre moved the apex court, saying the children could not be treated as Indian citizens… |
Source: German couple’s surrogate kids may end up stateless Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN 16 December 2009, 03:36am IST NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court's worst apprehension appears to have come true. The surrogate twin babies of a German couple have virtually become "stateless citizens" with India refusing them citizenship and Germany not ready to recognise surrogacy as a means of parenthood. Finding the surrogate babies caught in no man's territory on legal grounds for no fault of theirs, a Bench comprising Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly vented its anguish, "Should we treat children born out of surrogacy as commodities?" This slashing remark came after the couple -- Jan Balaz and Susan Lohle -- could give no final word to the SC whether the twins could get German citizenship in the event that India did not agree to grant citizenship to them. But the Bench did not want to keep hanging the surrogate children's fate and firmly said that it was in favour of devising a mechanism to ensure that surrogate babies were not treated as commodities. "Statelessness cannot be clamped upon the children. There must be some mechanism by which they get citizenship of some country. Children should be allowed to leave the country after an assurance of their citizenship has been given," the Bench said... |
Source: Dictator's wife defiant over forced adoptions More than 2,000 Germans are still searching for family members lost as a result of the forced adoption policies instigated by Margot Honecker. The widow of Erich Honecker, the East German dictator who ordered the building of the Berlin Wall, lives in exile in South America on a German state pension. And 20 years after the collapse of the Iron Curtain she remains unrepentant. In a rare interview recently the 82-year-old insisted that people "lived good lives" under the regime headed by her husband. |
Source: 14.10.09 Kenia: mal so - mal so (at 8.10. we announced that the US Government had forbid their nationals to adopt from Kenya, as the Kenyan adoption procedure was considered not sufficient for their agreement. Clearly the authorities in Rheinland see things differently.)… |
Source: German couple granted adoption of Namibian Child Written by Faith Sankwasa and Tirivangani Masawi |
„Suche Kind, zahle bar - Die Adoptionslobby“
„Search a child, pay cash- The Adoptionlobby“
8 September 2009
A film by Golineh Atai
Marineta Ciofu has lost every trace of her child. 10 Years ago the poor Romanian woman had to leave her daughter,born outside of marriage, behind in a babyhome, with the clear intention to take her back as soon as she herself would be doing better. But suddenly the girl disappeared. Almost 10 years laterMarinetta learns the truth. Her child was adopted by an American family.
[…]
Romania 1989 was the beginning of the ‘adoption industry’ of rich western countries, and for cases like Marineta Ciofu whose child disappeared without her consent. She does not even have the right to know where her child went to.
The Story looks into how the system of intercountry adoption works and how political pressure is applied to ease the business in children.
Jahrelanger Adoptionsstopp aus Rumänien führt zu Widerrufen der Zulassungen für Vermittlungsstellen
Yearlong adoption stop from Romania leads to revocation of licenses of agencies
7 September 2009
The Municipal Association of Youth and Social Affairs of Baden-Wuerttemberg has revoked the approvals for the adoption agencies' parent-child-Brücke eV " and "Future for Children" and the GZA Rheinland-Pfalz/Hessen for "familie international frankfurt e.V.” for mediation from Romania…
PING-PONG CU VIATA UNUI COPIL
Ping-Pong with a child's life
28 August 2008
Girl held in Germany, nobody's child Nicoleta Trif, whose daughter is held in a German family since three years, will not be brought back soon to her natural family in the village Giulvaz, Timis county. German authorities threw the cat in the yard of the Romanians and the Romanian authorities claim they can not bring the child back, because the German family refuses to repatriate. However, although the natural mother of the girl, Gabriela, was in Germany and has asked the little girl back even from Korina Biemuller-Meyer, a German citizen who illegally took the child to a farm in Germany since the age of 4 months. German and Romanian authorities have already promised in June that the child will be repatriated, but everything appears to be just a hoax to officials responsible for child's life. Five days after Jurnalul National reported this serious case of seizure of a Romanian child in a family of Bavaria, Susanne Kastner, vice president of German Federal Parliament, came on a private visit to Timisoara to document the fate of the girl...
Wartime orphans of shame unite
Published Date: 19 July 2009
By John Tagliabue in Paris
WHEN Jacques Roquencourt handles photographs, he does so with delicate hands. An accomplished aerospace engineer, he has spent his life building things like airborne radar systems. He is also one of France's foremost experts on early photography, particularly the work of Daguerre.
But when a package of photographs arrived recently from Freiburg, Germany, he handled them with special delicacy – if investigations under way bear fruit, one of the men in the black and white photos, taken in the 1930s, will prove to be the father whose identity has remained a mystery to Roquencourt for all his 67 years.
The so-called enfants de Boches born during the Second World War to French women and German soldiers, are seeking to fill a hole in their lives, hunting for long-lost German fathers they never knew and speaking openly of the maltreatment they suffered from their French neighbours. It is estimated that 200,000 children were born of these wartime love affairs.
Photos of the time depict young women, their heads shorn in shame, being hounded through villages, clutching the children of German fathers. About 20,000 women had their heads shaved. Many rejected the children, gave them up for adoption or placed them in orphanages.
But now these children, in their late 60s, are struggling to put their lives in order while there is still time. They have formed an association and sought the help of the German and French governments to try to identify their fathers, in many cases already dead, or families that their fathers founded in Germany after the war…
Where are the Foundlings?
20 June 2009
New dispute between Senator Dietrich Wersich (CDU) and the Sternipark Association: This is around four babies who were laid in the Safe Havens of the association in the year 2008. For months, the Social authority tries to figure out what has become of the babies.
But Sternipark-director Leila Moysich refers to its confidentiality. Now social Senator Dietrich Wersich (CDU) will examine whether the association is doing something punishable.
"We do not know whether the four children are from Hamburg or just were brought here, "said the senator," we do not even know whether the Children even exist. "Even in the years before it was for the Authority "difficult" to follow up the founlings says Authorities spokeswoman Jasmin Eisenhut: "Sternipark was not very cooperative. " Only through other sources, such as youth welfare offices, we managed to clarify where the children went after their stay at Sternipark: "But about the children from the Year 2008
we know nothing. "…
Streit der Woche
Sollen homosexuelle Paare Kinder adoptieren dürfen?
Should homosexual couples be allowed to adopt children?
3 June 2009
Without a man if he had good chances of adoption, with a man less: Antony Ross kisses his living companions. Photo: dpa
Even forty years after the riots in the "Stonewall Inn" in New York's Christopher Street – the birth of modern post-war gay movement - lesbians and gay people must continue their fight for legal equality. Worldwide. And what may surprise many, even in Germany, especially on the issue of children and their adoption in this country, the existing partnership law has big gaps in the matter of justice…
Fernsehteam recherchiert im Fall des rumänischen Kindes
TV crew investigates the case of a Romanian child
16 April 2009"
We now go one step further into the public." An
Altlandkreis family, which has been caring three years for a
Romanian girl Marie (name changed, we have reported),
feels "having been abandoned by the authorities." Now SpiegelTV is interested in the of fate Marie on Thursday and was turning
in the family. "We read on the Internet about the case,"
confirmed SpiegelTV Detlev Konnerth reporter in an interview with the main Post.
Marie came to Germany in December 2006 through a German-Romanian from Hammelburg. That placement was illegal since adoption of Romanian children under EU law is prohibited. The Bad Kissingen district court had convicted the woman early this year of attempted child trafficking to a custodial sentence of one year and two months imprisonment, suspended for three years
on probation.
Meanwhile, the fate of the girl remains unclear…
Türke bekommt Sorgerecht für seinen Sohn
Turc gets parental rights for his son
Decision now in force – multi-annual battle now ended
13 October 2008
In the nine year battle of the Turkisch father about his child, born in Germany, now justice has been done. According to the court in Wittenberg the father gets the sole parental rights. This decisions entered into force last weekend.
With this a confict ends, which was dealt with in 44 court cases up to the European Court. Without the approval of the father the German mother had given the now nine year old boy for adoption. The boy was since then for many years in foster care.
The biological father Vater Kazim Görgülü has been fighting for his parental rights and the right to see his son, and started many courtcases. A total of 78b decisions had been ruled. Since February 2008 the boy lives long term with his father and his second wife in Germany….
Paare suchen ihr Traumkind im Ausland
Couples are looking for their dream child abroad
26 August 2008
Munster - Official adoptions are an exception: In comparison to 1993 their number has almost halved in Germany, as the Federal Statistical Office reported on Monday. From 2006 to 2007 the number fell again to five per cent on 4509 children. However, the number of people interested to adopt also reduced strongly: Did in 1993 21,711 couples want to adopt a child, in 2007 only 8914 were on the waiting list. But still for the 886 children released for adoption in Germany, almost ten times as many applicants show up.
The fall in adoptions is a positive message: it seems that by improved effort more and more children stay with their biological parents. Moreover, the social pressure on single mothers is no longer so big.
So far, so good: But experts suspect that apart from the official channels of Child Protection Offices things are still happening on the "adoption market". Because faced with many couples who cannot have children in a natural way, the offer of adoptable children should be rising…
Adoption in Germany
8 July 2008
"Germany should become a country that stronger adopts children. "(Family Minister U. vd Leyen) Does this desire also concern the adoption of children from abroad?
One Hamburg-based adoption agency, which in the past years mediated about 1000 children, mostly from Vietnam, to parents in Germany, in the summer 2006 saw its permit revoked. The Prosecutor determined it was because of child trafficking and embezzlement. The case gives rise to reconsider the usual procedure over which in this country children are adopted from abroad.
Who wants to adopt a child, is aimed initially at the local Child Protection Office. They will tell those interested that few children from Germany are released for mediation. The reasons are manifold: The birth rate is falling. Services in support of families with difficulties, to look after their children, were expanded…
Verein macht gegen Adoptionsrecht für gleichgeschlechtliche Paare mobil
Association mobilizes against right to adopt for same sex couples
The push of the Federal Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries (SPD) to also allow same sex couples to adopt, now also mobilizes opponents. The " Deutsche Vereinigung für eine Christliche Kultur e.V." calls on its website for a signature campaign against the proposed lifting of the ban on adoption for gay men and lesbians…
Borderless Desire for Children
7 January 2008
Homesick, that's for Emma just a sad sense of longing, for which she at four years of age still has no name. "What is it, homesick?", she cuts off her father, who tells that that had recently driven the family back from Ulm to Bonn. "Homesick, that's when you want to go back home to mom and dad," explains Peter Stratmann her.
When Emma would be a little older, she would wince at that sentence, so ambiguous is it. Emma is adopted. "Back home" can be for her the house in Bonn with four siblings and the beautiful garden. But it could also be somewhere in Philadelphia, where the black child was born…
Who is Family
Holger and Jan live together in Saar-Brucken and since May 2002 they are formal partners. In August 2002, the two through an agency in Hamburg, adopted the then ten-month-old boy from Vietnam Minh Kai. Minh Kai was very ill and his mother gave him for reasons of poverty anonymous away in a Vietnamese hospital. From there he came into the orphanage, until Jan and Holger adopted him.
Holger and Jan always had a great desire for children. Both were aware early on that for homosexual men is almost impossible to get children and raise them. When they then got to know and love each other, the joint desire for children grew even bigger. A long-term foster care or to use a surrogate mother was from the emotional and legal restrictions never an issue…
For Shopping to Africa
9 November 2007
With two little arms Lea clings to Anna Jessen. For two months, the one year old Kenyan and the 21-year-old woman from Oldenburg spend nearly every minute together. Lea sleeps in Anna’s room, Anna changes diapers and feeds Lea. She plays with her and the other children in the "Nest", the children's home in Limuru, near the Kenyan capital Nairobi…
Adoptionsverfahren dürfen zu Ende geführt werden
Adoption procedures may be finalized
14 July 2006
The controversial agency International's Child Care Organization (ICCO) from Hamburg, being accused of trafficking and embezzlement, may finalise the 60 ongoing adoption procedures. This was confirmed by the Authority for Social Affairs, Family, Health and Consumer Protection to the Evening Gazette. "It is only hardship cases, that were close to being finalized at 29 June," says a spokesman of the authorities. "Otherwise, ICCO may no longer continue to mediate children."…
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