Adoption

The Family and Social Services Ministry has reported that the number of children under state protection is 14,761, while 9,981 children are in foster care and 19,689 children have been adopted as of February 2024.

With this decision, the Government of Serbia specified that until the adoption of the urban, architectural and construction solution for the Memorial Center and the arrangement of the new ambient unit, the plots of land on which the "Vladislav Ribnikar" Experimental Elementary School is located in Kralja Milutina Street No. 10 are exempted from use for educational activities Belgrade.

In late December a petition was launched titled "Nostos for Greek Adoptees," asking the Greek state to recognize some 4,000 Greek-born adoptees from the post-war era - the so-called Lost Children of Greece. Dr Mary Cardaras joins Thanos Davelis to tell the story of the "Lost Children," and look at what steps can be taken from Athens to bring them back to their roots.

Last December, a week before I left Greece for an extended trip to the United States, I launched a petition, the first ever I had attempted.

A Thessaloniki appeals court has handed a lawyer a four-year suspended jail sentence on condition that he pay 3,000 euros to a children's charity after finding him guilty of brokering illegal adoptions.

The National Assembly adopted in the second reading changes to the Family Code, with which the secrecy of adoption is removed and the work of the national system for full adoption is improved. GERB and DPS at the last moment supported the idea of WCC-DB to drop the secrecy of adoption.

An artificial intelligence program called DerinGÖRÜ, created by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK), have enabled a total of 1,865 children who had been separated from their families following the devastating quakes on Feb. 6 to reunite with their families.

Four of the nine babies at the center of an illegal adoptions and baby trafficking case in Crete have been handed over to their biological parents, following positive identification through DNA testing.

The babies were born to surrogate mothers in Hania Hospital.

The year is 2023: a major adoption scandal has unfolded in Hania, Crete. The adoption traffic may have been going on for the past 10 years? Ten years? How about 70 years? Adoption in and from Greece is celebrating a bizarre anniversary this year. Let me take you back to 1953, back 70 years ago.

1953: On the frontline

Four of the eight suspects in an illegal adoptions and baby trafficking case were remanded in custody early on Monday after testifying before two examining magistrates who are handling the case in Chania, Crete. The marathon session before the magistrates had started at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning and ended at 3:00 a.m. in the early hours of Monday.