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A day after actor Nayanthara and her husband director Vignesh Shivan shared pictures of their twin babies, Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian said that his department will seek an explanation. During a press meet, a journalist asked the Minister if the couple who got married four months ago can conceive through surrogacy and whether there was a time restriction. To this, the Minister replied that the Directorate of Medical Services will be directed to conduct an inquiry.

On October 9, Vignesh announced on social media, “Nayan & Me have become Amma & Appa. We are blessed with Twin Baby Boys. All Our prayers, our ancestors’ blessings combined with all the good manifestations made, have come 2gethr in the form Of 2 blessed babies for us. Need all ur blessings for our Uyir & Ulagam. Life looks brighter & more beautiful.”

Since their announcement, social media is rife with speculation about the babies and discussions about their names. While a friend of the couple said to TNM that the babies were conceived through surrogacy, Nayanthara and Vignesh are yet to make an official announcement.

In India, commercial surrogacy was allowed until a new law – The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021– came was passed in December 2021 and came into effect on January 25, 2022. It is plausible that Nayanthara, as a single woman, or Nayanthara and Vignesh, as partners, could have approached a medical clinic seeking surrogacy prior to December 2021, when commercial surrogacy was allowed and there were no laws governing the issue. However, since December 2021, only ‘altruistic surrogacy’ is allowed, meaning no remuneration or monetary incentive is provided to the surrogate mother, except the medical expenses. As per the new rules, a surrogate mother has to be genetically related to the couple.

The new rules also state, other than a couple, who have a ‘medical indication necessitating gestational surrogacy’, only an Indian woman who is a widow or divorcee between the age of 35 to 45 years can opt for surrogacy.

In search of a better future, six-day-old girl given away by biological parents in Jalgaon to a couple, who forge papers and sell her to a transgender duo — one of whom is lodged in jail currently; two women agents found to be involved in the sale; police catch up with the culprits, arrest them & decide to take responsibility for child’s education; activist says such children are often forced into begging & state should look into matter

If one were to pause and weigh, illegal adoption of children would emerge as an equal menace in society as human trafficking — with both being related somewhere. When the crime branch of the city police rescued a toddler it was a veritable opening of the Pandora’s Box pointing unflinchingly towards both the evils.

The girl child was caught in a rigmarole of illegal adoption for one-and-a-half years after she was given away by her biological parents when she was just six days old. The child travelled to different cities and had three different pairs of parents, including one who is lodged in jail with murder charges at present. She is in safe hands now and the police have decided to educate her by collecting funds themselves.

The enormity of such cases can be gauged from the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) data which states that 6,533 human trafficking victims were rescued in India last year and 2,877 of them were children. Similarly, 4,709 victims were rescued in 2020 and 2,222 of them were children. The data suggests that such cases, especially of children, have increased by over 27 per cent last year as compared to 2020.

It may be noted that the six-day-old child was given up for adoption in January 2021 to a couple since the parents could not take care of her because of financial constraints. They already had four children. The parents, based in Jalgaon, hoped their child would have a better future if she lived with someone with financial stability. However, it was a case of illegal adoption. Taking advantage of this, the adoptive parents sold the toddler to a transgender couple in Pune by fraudulently making the adoption papers. They claimed it was their child and earned Rs 1.7 lakh through the change of hands.

On October 10, 2022, it was announced that TV program Spoorloos linked at least two participants to non-biological family. Following this news, we can imagine that you have questions about how Fiom conducts searches in Colombia. You can read more about this below. Do you have any questions? Feel free to call or email us on 088 126 49 00 or info@fiom.nl .

1. Who do we work with when it comes to searches in Colombia?

For searches in Colombia, Fiom collaborates with the Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF, Colombian Institute for Family Welfare). The ICBF is a government agency concerned with the protection of the rights of minors. The ICBF has 33 branches in the various departments and conducts searches for biological families at the request of adoptees.

2. How does the ICBF search?

The ICBF searches through formal channels. Once the identity number of the wanted person is known and checked in the national register, the ICBF requests various organizations, such as health and benefit organizations, to provide up-to-date contact details of the wanted person. After receiving these data, a social worker from the ICBF will contact the person sought by telephone or a home visit will take place. The ICBF never contacts the wanted person via social media.

MUMBAI: Bombay HC recently declined relief to the adoptive parents of a one-year-old child who had sought its intervention so that they continue to keep him with them.

The couple and the child’s biological parents are battling each other over the boy’s custody in the city civil court. The couple had moved HC to direct the Centre to amend the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 (HAMA) “with respect to situations where custody is already handed over but consent is withdrawn”. They urged HC to issue norms in such cases to lower courts and pending framing of guidelines to direct the parties to maintain a status quo.

Justices Sanjay Gangapurwala and RM Laddha on September 20, though, said they “may seek appropriate relief before the court where proceedings are filed and pending”. The couple’s petition said they were desirous of a second child and wished to adopt. They had registered with the Central Adoption Resources Authority in November 2019 but there was no progress. In June 2021, they registered with NGO Aham Foundation. On July 16, 2021, its owner Julia Fernandes told them a newborn was up for adoption. While they were apprehensive about it, the child’s mother insisted on immediate adoption. After a small “give and take ceremony”, the adoption deed was executed with the biological parents and they were given custody of the child.

No HC relief to adoptive couple in war with biological parents

TNN | Oct 9, 2022, 01.51 AM IST

Alex Lipe

Part One: The Adoption Industry

The adoption industry commodifies children as well as parenthood. In the U.S., in 2015, the adoption industry had an approximate revenue of $14 billion. (Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy 2015; IBISWorld).

In this piece I will be asking pressing questions: How can the so-called child welfare industry truly have welfare as its top priority when it so clearly is based on profit? Does the U.S. domestic adoption industry place more value on profit than on child welfare? How have various activist organizations historically challenged legislation in order to secure equal rights for adoptees? What is the history of the modern U.S. adoption industry?

As a jumping-off point, it is important to acknowledge that adoption has roots in colonialism and white saviorhood. Adoption is a tactic of social control that has historically primarily affected working class people, sex workers, women and families of color, and ways of organizing families and childcare that are deemed “nontraditional” or “unconventional” or that are non-U.S.-ian. As we will see, adoption is also closely connected to feminized, informal forms of labor.

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MUMBAI: Bombay HC recently declined relief to the adoptive parents of a one-year-old child who had sought its intervention so that they continue to keep him with them.
The couple and the child’s biological parents are battling each other over the boy’s custody in the city civil court. The couple had moved HC to direct the Centre to amend the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 (HAMA) “with respect to situations where custody is already handed over but consent is withdrawn”. They urged HC to issue norms in such cases to lower courts and pending framing of guidelines to direct the parties to maintain a status quo.
 

Justices Sanjay Gangapurwala and RM Laddha on September 20, though, said they “may seek appropriate relief before the court where proceedings are filed and pending”. The couple’s petition said they were desirous of a second child and wished to adopt. They had registered with the Central Adoption Resources Authority in November 2019 but there was no progress. In June 2021, they registered with NGO Aham Foundation. On July 16, 2021, its owner Julia Fernandes told them a newborn was up for adoption. While they were apprehensive about it, the child’s mother insisted on immediate adoption. After a small “give and take ceremony”, the adoption deed was executed with the biological parents and they were given custody of the child.
In September 2021, the couple filed an adoption petition under HAMA so they could submit the decree for Aadhar card and passport for the child. On March 16, 2022, the civil court dismissed their adoption petition holding adoption deed is not registered, and according to Section 16 of HAMA, “the court shall not presume that adoption is made in compliance with provisions of this Act”.

It further said as biological parents have objected to giving their child for adoption, “the adoption process can’t be completed without their consent”. In June 2022, the couple filed a review petition before the civil court and the biological parents filed for custody of their child.
The couple’s petition in HC said the adoption was complete when the adoption ceremony and signing of the adoption deed was done before a notary. Their advocate Aparna Vhatkar argued that therefore the adoption cannot be cancelled. The petition said the civil court erred in holding that the adoption deed is not registered as per HAMA as nowhere in section 16 it states that the adoption deed is required to be registered.

Advocates Edith and Mikhail Dey for the biological parents opposed the petition saying HAMA is not applicable as the biological mother is a Christian. The prospective adoptive parents and biological parents have to be Hindu to be governed by HAMA.

MOORE, Okla. (KFOR) – Imagine thinking you’ve finalized the adoption of your child abroad, and then learning you can’t take them home.

That’s exactly the situation that Moore couple Carrie and Ryan Pentecost found themselves in, following the adoption of their daughter Precious.

Their journey to adoption began not long after they were married but stalled while they attempted to walk through the process in another country.

Carrie said they met their match when they set their eyes and hearts on Nigeria.

In August of 2021 the couple matched with their daughter before officially adopting her in September of the same year.

Nearly two years after the Commission of Investigation published its final report, survivors are still being ignored, Órla Ryan writes.

HOW MUCH REDRESS should a person who spent less than six months in a mother and baby home as a child get?

How many Commissioners will appear before the Oireachtas?

How many official reports with disputed findings should be repudiated?

How many independent reviews will take place?