WEDNESDAY was a memorable day for South Indian-born Apparao Gujjo, who gained a second child as well as his Australian citizenship. Mr Gujjo was one of 15 Gladstone residents who were granted Australian citizenship. He was planning a citizenship party, but now he had two reasons to celebrate, he…

aya 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. A resident of Dieburg, 30km from Frankfurt in southern Germany, Chaya has been…

This is a big celebration for foster families in Israel who have been waiting for this change for more than 10 years,” said Shalva Lebovitz, national integrator for foster care in the Ministry of Welfare and Social Services. “For families where both parents work, it is very difficult to take on…

Over the past five months, the adoption process of nearly 41 children, including some differently-abled in the 1-12 age group, has been affected adversely at Pune’s adoption centre Preet Mandir. The process includes 10 special children (hearing and speech impaired) and two others who tested positive…

The most striking thing about adoption right now: the complex, convoluted issues that can arise. Who should adopt or be allowed to adopt? Who is legally a parent? What rights do adopted children have? How do we balance the rights of everyone in the triad of adopted child, adoptive parent and birth…

The reaction to Russia's newly signed ban on U.S. citizens adopting there continues, along varied lines: A couple of pieces look at the political and diplomatic mindsets and strategies behind the move. The ban has commonly been viewed as a reaction to a U.S. law called the Magnitsky Act. An opinion…

The post-earthquake images were wrenching: helpless Haitian infants, some injured, many hungry, lying on blankets on bare dirt. They were babies in need, and Americans responded as they always do, by rushing to adopt. The impulse was real, but the timing was wrong. Adoption agencies in New Jersey…

A Chabad family in Nepal recently made a great public Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of God’s name) by adopting a starving child. While definitions for these terms vary, what is clear is that there are millions of orphans around the world and we must all do our part. What recently happened in Russia…

Assessment for an overseas adoption has to rank as one of the most cruel, head-wrecking processes ever to be endured. The chances are that if you are a couple considering inter-country adoption you have been trying to have a baby for years already anyway. You've possibly spent thousands of euros on…

MOTHERHOOD: Madonna holding her adopted Malian child CHILDREN OF different ethnicity and culture to their adopted parents face a significant chance of identity problems in childhood and adult life, according to a recent study by the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF). The report,…

The Calgary hairdresser keeps a stack of papers about this lady, all in a green bag in her apartment. She has scanned backups of each photo and document, terrified of losing even one. Sometimes, she’ll take a photo out of the bag and spend some time looking at her biological mother, frozen in time.…

On December 17, I watched and listened from the Gallery as the Parliament began the debate on The Children (Amendment) Bill 2015. The points that stood out in the debate were the establishment of a Children's Authority and Inter-Country Adoption. Majority of the legislators agreed on the creation of…

From 1924-1950, Georgia Tann sold more than 5,000 children and was responsible for the death of so many others in her charge that, for a time, the infant mortality rate of Memphis, Tennessee, soared to the highest in the USA. Tann had set herself up as a saviour of children, finding good middle…

It’s hard enough for a child to lose a parent under any circumstances, but when children become orphans in a war zone, their future becomes even more uncertain. That’s why one family in Lyme is trying to help children caught in conflict in Ukraine. Dianna and Douglas Hampton-Dowson turned to social…

NHFC provides families the unique opportunity to share love with orphans for a four- to five-week visit during the summer and around Christmas. They work with orphanages and foster homes in the Eastern European countries of Latvia and Ukraine to bring the school-aged children to the U.S. to stay…

thanks to the Internet, Ukrainian information and news on Ukraine adoption through the blogs and news portal like Ukraine adoption gets out to news partners in all-Ukrainian public organization facilitating adoption in Ukraine. The war reveals all the problems and the number of children-orphans who…

Teaching – is that the acquired child behavior, relationships with adults and peers, moral knowledge and feelings are the Foundation on which the deepening of existing and the assimilation of a new, the development of new forms of moral behavior, consciousness, feelings, relations. …

In how many years should start drawing a child? First of all, each of parents should address this issue myself, looking at the desire and interest of the child to this topic. I think that you should not hard wait for kindergarten or development of the circle, each time saying myself that it is too…

Record number of Ukrainians adopted children began in 2009, said the Minister of family, youth and sports Yuriy Pavlenko. “This year (2009) confirmed the strong tendency of the annual increase in the number of children adopted by citizens of Ukraine”, – quotes the environment Minister’s press…

How to adopt a child in Odessa? The statistics show that the problem of abandoned children in Odessa is one of the priorities. Is “the future of the country”, “flowers of life”, “happiness of parents” – it is just beautiful words? Only in orphanages in Odessa are 268 children in need of adoption.…

Recently in Ukraine start to appear a clear national youth policy, clear policies and set practice for Ukraine adoption, fostercare and orphanage. This was announced by presidential Commissioner for children’s rights during a round table on the topic “Easy to be young” at the Gorshenin Institute.…

More than half of young Ukrainians want to have more than one child. This was told by Vadim Denisenko, chief editor of the weekly “Komentari” during the presentation of the results of sociological survey “Youth of Ukraine”. The study was conducted by the Gorshenin Institute and the weekly…

According to estimates of the Ukrainian authorities, an additional 127 children were injured. The presidential Commissioner for children’s rights Mykola Kuleba has said that according to official data, during the conflict in the Donbass killed at least 65 children, and another 127 were injured.…

In the framework of a new social projects that have started in Ukraine, project organizer will introduce potential adoptive parents and interested in becoming one citizen with the real stories of adoptive waiting children who are in orphanages of Ukraine right now. The project is intended to be…

If there is a will there is a way as the popular saying goes one children adoption service agency sent children from orphanages at the world hockey championship Students of the Kyiv, Ukraine municipal orphanage №1, the Stationary-educational boarding school №26 and children from crisis families had…

For past years of children adoption foundation in Ukraine has helped thousands children to find their adoptive parents and foster care. Two out of these three adopted children were adopted in Ukraine through domestic adoption program with Ukrainian parents. All these children are the lucky ones,…