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 care institutions as well as evaluate the functioning of district child protection units, child welfare committees, juvenile justice boards, specialised juvenile police units, child care institutions etc. In 2015, the then Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi centralised the entire adoption system by empowering CARA to maintain in various specialised adoption agencies, a registry of children, prospective adoptive parents as well as match them before adoption. This was aimed at checking rampant corruption and trafficking as child care institutions and NGOs could directly give children for adoption after obtaining a no-objection certificate from CARA.

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Dutch gov't wants to phase out adoption from abroad in six years
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Dutch gov't wants to phase out adoption from abroad in six years

NL Times  

Prospective adoptive parents will have another six years to complete their ongoing procedure for the adoption of a child from abroad. Earlier this year, the government already stopped accepting new intercountry adoption applications. The Kamer wanted to do away with this form of adoption after a devastating report from 2021 about numerous abuses that had been going on for years …

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,” …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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