Explained | What are adoption rules in India
2 years, 8 months ago

Explained | What are adoption rules in India

The Hindu  

A total of 3,559 children were adopted in India between April 2020 and March 2021, as per official adoption data. The JJ Act also allows the adoption of same-sex children — parents of a biological or adopted child can adopt another child of the same sex. A database of children and registration of prospective parents is done on a centralised Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System, which is maintained by CARA. After initial foster care, the prospective adoptive parents get final custody as soon as the passport and visa are issued to the child after the issue of an adoption order from the court. Around 28,000 prospective parents have currently registered to adopt but only 2,200 have been declared legally free for adoption by the child welfare committee.

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Odisha couple allegedly sells newborn girl for Rs 20k, citing poverty
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1 month ago

Odisha couple allegedly sells newborn girl for Rs 20k, citing poverty

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhubaneswar: A nine-day-old girl was allegedly sold by her parents in Odisha’s Rayagada district due to extreme poverty. The couple reportedly sold the infant to a childless couple from Andhra Pradesh for Rs 20,000, triggering a legal and social investigation. Speaking on the matter, Satyapriya Pradhan, a member of the Child Protection Commission, explained: “The couple did not sell their …

India has a new set of foster care guidelines: How it will affect couples, singles
3 months, 3 weeks ago

India has a new set of foster care guidelines: How it will affect couples, singles

India Today  

Every person who wishes to be a parent deserves the opportunity to shower love and care on a child, and every child deserves a nurturing family. To help make this possible, the Women and Child Development Ministry has updated India's foster care guidelines. These revised Model Foster Care Guidelines also provide single individuals the opportunity to adopt a child after …

Kerala Child welfare board sets record with 100 adoptions in 18 months
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Kerala Child welfare board sets record with 100 adoptions in 18 months

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The State Child Welfare Committee has set a record by facilitating the adoption of 100 children, who were under the care of foster mothers in various adoption centres across the state. “The new administration took charge at the end of February 2023, and within just one and a half years, the committee has achieved this rare record,” said …

Biological Mother's Marital Status Cannot Be Determining Factor in Adoption of Child: Madras High Court
6 months ago

Biological Mother's Marital Status Cannot Be Determining Factor in Adoption of Child: Madras High Court

News 18  

The Madras High Court recently observed that the marital status of a Hindu woman cannot be the determining factor in deciding the adoption of her biological child. However, the registering authority refused registration because the child’s biological mother had attained majority and remained unmarried at the time of adoption and therefore, there was a lack of consent from the child’s …

Babies, bargains and bureaucracy: the dark side of child adoption
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Babies, bargains and bureaucracy: the dark side of child adoption

The Hindu  

April 27 was a day of celebration at a four-storey apartment in the bylanes of Boduppal, a residential locality in eastern Hyderabad. “Her offer to us for a child came at a hopeless time when the in-vitro fertilisation procedure had gone in vain and we did not hear back on an adoption request we had filed about five years ago,” …

Adoptions Cross 4,000-Mark Since 2019: Why is India Struggling with Low Rate? What Can Be Done?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Adoptions Cross 4,000-Mark Since 2019: Why is India Struggling with Low Rate? What Can Be Done?

News 18  

India tweaked its Juvenile Justice Act to speed up the child adoption process when a large number of minors were abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, of the 4,009 children adopted in the last one year, 449 were in-country adoptions, according to the data collated by the Central Adoption Resource Authority, under the Ministry of Women and Child Development. The …

Rights Of Adopted Children Of Citizens Can't Be Marooned: Karnataka HC Directs CARA To Consider Granting NOC For Child Adopted From Non-Hague Convention Country
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Rights Of Adopted Children Of Citizens Can't Be Marooned: Karnataka HC Directs CARA To Consider Granting NOC For Child Adopted From Non-Hague Convention Country

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has directed the Central Adoption Resource Authority to consider the representation of a couple who are Indian Citizens and have adopted a child in Uganda, a country which is not a signatory to the Hague Convention 1995 and seeking to legalise the adoption in India in terms of Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and the Adoption Regulations …

Can an adopted child be 'returned?' Here's what rules say
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Can an adopted child be 'returned?' Here's what rules say

Firstpost  

Two cases of couples from Uttar Pradesh and Kerala wanting to return their adopted children have hit the headlines recently. Let’s look at the rules, what the courts said and why experts say ‘returned children’ are seemingly becoming a bigger problem Two unusual cases have hit the headlines recently. “Many Indian parents tried to adopt older children, but they realised …

All about CARA, India’s adoption regulation body | Explained
1 year, 1 month ago

All about CARA, India’s adoption regulation body | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: To adopt a child, India’s almost 30,000 prospective parents wait for an average of three years. CARA is the nodal body regulating the adoption of “orphaned, surrendered and abandoned children” in India. Adoption agencies urged the court to review the regime, “with a particular reference to the CARA’s status and functioning and the procedural hindrances to …

In Chandigarh, no end to 40 hopeful parents’ long adoption wait
1 year, 1 month ago

In Chandigarh, no end to 40 hopeful parents’ long adoption wait

Hindustan Times  

It’s been almost a year since the UT administration notified the Chandigarh Juvenile Justice Amendment Rules, 2023, to accelerate the adoption process. Recently, the Supreme Court had raised serious concerns over the “grave” delay in the process of adoption of children and asked the Centre why no steps were being taken to simplify the process. CARA is a nodal body …

How to support a child through the emotional journey of adoption
1 year, 1 month ago

How to support a child through the emotional journey of adoption

Live Mint  

In 2011, Srobona Das and her husband took a flight to Ranchi to meet their adopted daughter, Naina, for the first time. Hence, it is important for parents, educators and communities to understand and support our children.” In an article for Verywell Mind, a US-based website that provides mental health and wellness information by health professionals, therapist Theodora Blanchfield says …

“We Have Not Stayed Adoptions”: Bombay High Court Clarifies, Court To Continue Hearing Matters
1 year, 6 months ago

“We Have Not Stayed Adoptions”: Bombay High Court Clarifies, Court To Continue Hearing Matters

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court clarified on Friday that it hadn’t stalled any adoptions and all procedures should continue as they were before the Juvenile Justice Amendment 2021. Civil courts dealing with adoptions must continue to do so till final disposal of this matter on July 7.” After an intervenor pointed out that several matters had already been transferred to the …

Now, adopting a child becomes easier in Chandigarh
1 year, 6 months ago

Now, adopting a child becomes easier in Chandigarh

Hindustan Times  

Adopting a child in Chandigarh has now become a step easier with the UT administration notifying the Chandigarh Juvenile Justice Amendment Rules, 2023. The Chandigarh administration has adopted the amendments in the Juvenile Justice Model Rules, 2016, notified by the central government in September 2022. The department will soon be appointing an officer to address queries of parents who want …

Supreme Court Allows Woman Who Sought Abortion To Give Child For Adoption To A Couple Registered With CARA
1 year, 10 months ago

Supreme Court Allows Woman Who Sought Abortion To Give Child For Adoption To A Couple Registered With CARA

Live Law  

In a plea filed by a 21-year old unmarried woman seeking permission to terminate a 29-week pregnancy, the Supreme Court of India, while noting that the petitioner in question had agreed to give birth to the child and place the child for adoption, asked AIIMS to take all necessary precautions in the interest of the safety and health of the …

Delhi High Court Paves Way For Inter Country Adoption By Foreign Couple, Orders Expeditious Completion Of Legal Formalities
2 years ago

Delhi High Court Paves Way For Inter Country Adoption By Foreign Couple, Orders Expeditious Completion Of Legal Formalities

Live Law  

Paving way for an inter country adoption by a foreign couple, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the authorities to expeditiously conclude all legal formalities relating to adoption of a minor child with special needs, who was found abandoned in October 2019 in a cremation ground. The bench observed that undisputedly no reservation came to be made by a …

Explained | The tedious process of adoption
2 years, 3 months ago

Explained | The tedious process of adoption

The Hindu  

The story so far: From September 1, District Magistrates have been empowered to give adoption orders instead of courts. The key changes include authorising District Magistrates and Additional District Magistrates to issue adoption orders under Section 61 of the JJ Act by striking out the word “court”. The District Magistrates have also been empowered under the Act to inspect child …

'Young Couples Can't Be Made To Wait 3-4 Years To Adopt': Supreme Court Asks Centre To Simplify Adoption Process
2 years, 3 months ago

'Young Couples Can't Be Made To Wait 3-4 Years To Adopt': Supreme Court Asks Centre To Simplify Adoption Process

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday highlighted that asking young couples made to wait three to four to adopt a child is not correct and that the adoption process in India needs a reconsideration. While considering a plea moved by a society, the Temple of Healing seeking to simplify the adoption process in India, Justices DY Chandrachud, AS Bopanna and JB …

Finding a home: The Hindu Editorial on India’s adoption policy
2 years, 4 months ago

Finding a home: The Hindu Editorial on India’s adoption policy

The Hindu  

Policy intervention without knowledge of the ground realities often ends up as an exercise in self-gratification for those in authority and results in little or no benefit for the intended target group. Whether the recent recommendation of a parliamentary panel to bring more abandoned children into the adoption process will fulfil these parameters is an issue that warrants further discussion. …

Official data shows that over 16,000 families have been waiting to adopt a child for the last 3 years
2 years, 5 months ago

Official data shows that over 16,000 families have been waiting to adopt a child for the last 3 years

Firstpost  

Around 28 thousand prospective parents’ home study reports have been approved and are in queue for adopting a child New Delhi: More than 16,000 prospective parents have been waiting for over three years to adopt a child, with officials attributing the slowdown to the availability of fewer children who are legally free for adoption. According to data shared by officials …

Child Adopted By A Widow Not Entitled To Inherit Her Deceased Husband's Property: Bombay High Court
2 years, 8 months ago

Child Adopted By A Widow Not Entitled To Inherit Her Deceased Husband's Property: Bombay High Court

Live Law  

The Bombay High court on Thursday answered the question of whether the principle of relation back is applicable in case of a son adopted post the demise of the husband of the adopting lady in the negative. A single judge Justice Shrikant D. Kulkarni observed, "an adopted son may have rights in future in the property which the family may …

Why are adoption rates so low in India where thousands of children live in child care institutions?
2 years, 9 months ago

Why are adoption rates so low in India where thousands of children live in child care institutions?

The Hindu  

In the summer of 2019, Vinay Raj* and his wife Kanika gathered their family and friends to announce the most important decision they had made in their eight years of marriage: they were going to adopt a baby girl. Reforms needed In October last year, a group of over 300 prospective adoptive parents and adoptive parents wrote to the Minister …

Child welfare council lacks statutory recognition, says family court
2 years, 9 months ago

Child welfare council lacks statutory recognition, says family court

The Hindu  

The legality of adoptions facilitated by the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare, Thiruvananthapuram, has come under cloud, with a court ruling that the agency lacked the mandatory recognition for facilitating adoptions. It was while considering the recent adoption procedures initiated by the Council in the case of four abandoned children that the court issued the order. In its order …

Documents required for adoption of stepchildren by foreign citizens
2 years, 10 months ago

Documents required for adoption of stepchildren by foreign citizens

China Daily  

According to the No 2008-4 file issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, parties involved in stepchild adoption by a foreign citizen shall prepare and submit documents and papers as follows: I. A certificate provided by the competent authority of the adopter's nationality country approving this inter-country adoption, or a certificate provided by the competent authority to approve the adopted …

Adoption of Children in China by Foreigners
2 years, 10 months ago

Adoption of Children in China by Foreigners

China Daily  

Adopter shall meet simultaneously the following requirements: 1.Childless; 2.Capable of raising and educating the adoptee; 3.Suffering no such disease which is medically regarded as unfit for adopting a child; 4.Having reached the age of 30. The adopter's application, family background report and certificates prescribed in the preceding paragraph refer to the following documents notarized by the notary office or a …

Family Court With Territorial Jurisdiction Is The Competent Authority To Give A Child In Adoption : Kerala High Court
2 years, 11 months ago

Family Court With Territorial Jurisdiction Is The Competent Authority To Give A Child In Adoption : Kerala High Court

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court has recently laid down that the Family Court with the respective territorial jurisdiction is empowered to give a child in adoption.After perusing the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015, the 2014 Rules framed thereunder and the Adoption Regulations 2017, Justice M.R. The Kerala High Court has recently laid down that the Family Court with the …

What the Kerala adoption row says about gaps in the system
3 years, 1 month ago

What the Kerala adoption row says about gaps in the system

Live Mint  

Over the past few weeks, an unusual case has been playing out in the Kerala courts—Anupama Chandran, the daughter of a local CPIM leader in Thiruvananthapuram, has alleged that her parents put up her child, born in October 2020, for adoption without her consent. In earlier years, when I started out as a reporter, many orphanages and nursing homes “gave …

Delhi High Court Issues Notice To CARA On OCI Couple's Plea Seeking Parity With Domestic/ NRI Couples For Child Adoption
3 years, 4 months ago

Delhi High Court Issues Notice To CARA On OCI Couple's Plea Seeking Parity With Domestic/ NRI Couples For Child Adoption

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a writ petition filed by an OCI couple, stating that despite having registered with CARA for adoption of a child in 2018, they have not received any referral till date; whereas applicants who registered subsequently have already received referrals.The Petitioners apprehend that CARA is not following. The Delhi High Court has issued …

Abandoned girl child adopted by American couple in Gujarat's Kutch
3 years, 5 months ago

Abandoned girl child adopted by American couple in Gujarat's Kutch

India Today  

An abandoned girl child in an orphanage in Gujarat's Kutch was recently adopted by an American couple. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, the couple could not travel to India earlier to fulfill the formalities and take the child along. As soon as the Covid-19 cases in India dropped, the couple came here to take their adopted child. The girl …

Indian Adoption Laws: Endless Wait For Children Orphaned During Pandemic
3 years, 6 months ago

Indian Adoption Laws: Endless Wait For Children Orphaned During Pandemic

Live Law  

The COVID 19 has given birth to the issue of legal adoption of the large number of children orphaned due to the pandemic, and protection of such orphaned and/or abandoned children from child trafficking and flesh trade. The upper age limit of a child to be adopted under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 is 15 years, and under …

In Kerala, social media is rife with messages about adoption of children orphaned by COVID-19 pandemic
3 years, 7 months ago

In Kerala, social media is rife with messages about adoption of children orphaned by COVID-19 pandemic

The Hindu  

Ever since his return from West Asia early this year, Pretheesh J. Pillai, a Kochi-based expatriate, has received at least two messages about children who lost their parents to the COVID-19 pandemic being available for adoption. Social media messages about children orphaned by the pandemic and available for adoption seek to tap into the impatience over this long wait by …

How to adopt a child legally
3 years, 7 months ago

How to adopt a child legally

The Hindu  

Profiteering from child trafficking rackets knows no bounds. Furthermore, CARA became pivotal in granting a ‘no objection’ certificate for all inter-country adoptions, pursuant to India becoming a signatory to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoptions. Only such children declared legally free for adoption under the Juvenile Justice Act by prescribed procedures can …

Adoption authority gets HC notice on plea
3 years, 8 months ago

Adoption authority gets HC notice on plea

The Hindu  

The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Central Adoption Resource Authority on a plea by a Hindu couple, living in the U.S., seeking a no-objection certificate to adopt a child born to Christian parents. “The present petition raises an issue of enormous importance as it relates to a legal vacuum in respect of adoptions carried out prior to …

Merely Executing Notarized Document Purporting To Adoption Deed Does Not Give A Right To Child Custody: Bombay High Court
3 years, 8 months ago

Merely Executing Notarized Document Purporting To Adoption Deed Does Not Give A Right To Child Custody: Bombay High Court

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court recently refused permission to a couple to take custody over a two-year-old child on the strength of a "notarised adoption deed". A Bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale ruled, "We are of the opinion that by merely executing a notarized document purporting to be an Adoption Deed, the petitioners cannot claim that they have …

Legal Vacuum In Respect Of Adoptions Carried Out By Christian Parents Prior To 2016: Delhi High Court Seeks Response From Centre, CARA
3 years, 9 months ago

Legal Vacuum In Respect Of Adoptions Carried Out By Christian Parents Prior To 2016: Delhi High Court Seeks Response From Centre, CARA

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has granted protection to a US-based Indian Christian couple, apprehending legal action for adopting a child in India in the year 2014, under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956. A Single Bench of Justice Pratibha M. Singh noted that prior to coming into effect of the Juvenile Justice Model Rules in 2016, there was no …

2,061 girls among 3,531 children adopted in 2019-20: Govt data
4 years, 1 month ago

2,061 girls among 3,531 children adopted in 2019-20: Govt data

The Hindu  

A total of 3,531 children, including 2,061 girls, were adopted in India during the one year period ending March 31 with Maharashtra recording the highest number of adoptions among states, according to government data. As per data from the Child Adoption Resource Authority, 1,470 boys and 2,061 girls were adopted from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020. The official …

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