22 5. DEALING WITH COMPLEX CASES: FOUNDLINGS, ADOPTION, AND SURROGACY Modern reproductive technology can raise new challenges for the enjoyment of nationality by children. This baby girl was born in the Netherlands, to a single mother who underwent IVF treatment – using an anonymous sperm donor – in order to conceive. Since the mother holds the nationality of one of the 27 countries worldwide where women do not enjoy the right to pass nationality to their children, she was unable to give her daughter a nationality at birth. Fortunately, for this little girl, once she has been living in the Netherlands for three years, she will be entitled to opt for Dutch nationality and her statelessness can be resolved. 173 They haven’t done a thing. Nobody wanted to tell us what to do, how to fight it, where to go. Public offices should take care of the best interests of the child […]. Instead, for them a child is a piece of paper moved between the ‘pending’ and ‘resolved’ piles. When it comes to Marysia’s case, I am ashamed of this country’s law and officials who deal with such matters. MARYSIA’S ADOPTIVE FATHER, POLAND