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The Red Cross is concerned about the increasing homelessness among families and children in the Netherlands, where coordinators report that more and more people are asking for help in acute need, while the gaps in the social safety net seem to be widening. #Dakloosheid #RodeKruis #SocialeZorg (translated)

Blackbird wrote that a family of four — two parents and children aged 19 and 21 — was paying €700 per month for a basic health insurance, excluding the deductible. Blackbird suggested that politicians intensely hated the family, but tolerated them as long as it generated money. #Zorgverzekering #Gezin #Politiek (translated)

Pepijn van Houwelingen wrote that a father had freed his son from a group home in Spain, where the boy was allegedly tortured by child protection services. He mentioned that the Salvation Army had reported the father and that the father had been convicted by a judge. He also wrote that the Salvation Army had informed him the week before that members of parliament were not welcome at discussions with parents, not even at the request of those parents; he called that suspicious. Van Houwelingen stated that the minister and the inspection were doing nothing and that the minister trusted the involved institutions. According to him, the inspection could not supervise placements abroad. He criticized the House of Representatives, which he referred to as the "Sleeping Chamber," because it had repeatedly rejected motions against placing children abroad and for oversight by the inspection and members of parliament. He wrote that the Chamber would vote on Tuesday on a motion that aimed to give parents the right to prohibit the placement of their children abroad against their will. In that context, he asked Lisa Westerveld, Marijke Synhaeve, and Ruud Verkuijlen for their opinion. https://t.co/W6kCiYwnPn👇 #jeugdbescherming #kindermishandeling #ouderrechten (translated)

Michael van der Galien wrote that he found it abnormal when two men had a woman carry a child and then took it away from the mother. He referred to Lydia Daniel, who called this "covert baby trafficking" on Ongehoord Nederland. According to Daniel, a puppy, which had to stay with its mother for seven weeks, had more rights than a baby. Van der Galien also wrote that a desire for children did not give Jetten the right to someone else's baby. #gezinsvormen #babyrecht #ethiek (translated)

Monique X- Fluencer stated that this did not apply to Rob and Nico. According to her, they had deliberately used an anonymous egg from a donor, which meant that the surrogate mother, in her view, had no rights and only functioned as a womb. She wrote that they had consciously chosen to ensure that there was no mother in the picture for their child. #draagmoederschap #anoniemdonor #gezinsvorming (translated)

Ncilla wrote that in discussions about surrogacy, it is often said that a child deserves a father and a mother, while according to her, the child already has both. She argued that the child in a surrogacy arrangement may not be allowed to know his or her mother and that it is conceived with the intention of keeping it away from her. According to Ncilla, a child biologically needs attachment to blood relatives, and making the mother legally invisible does not make her biologically or emotionally non-existent. #draagmoeder #gezinsvorming #ouderlijkerechten (translated)

Premier Rob Jetten and his partner Nicolás Keenan hope to become fathers this spring thanks to high-tech surrogacy with a Dutch surrogate and an egg donor, but the process is complex due to the strict conditions and regulations surrounding surrogacy in the Netherlands. #draagmoederschap #RobJetten #gezinsvorming (translated)

100% Woman stated that her opposition to surrogacy and her plea for a child's right to be cared for by both its father and mother should not be attributed to homo-intolerance. She wrote that she protested just as loudly against heterosexual women whom she believed were buying a child. #draagmoederschap #rechtenvankinderen #gezinsvormen (translated)