For many mothers, their adoption decision was a deal made with a guarantee of secrecy.

The discussion in the Senate on the Adoption and Tracing Bill brings to mind interviews I did in 1998 with women who were planning to give up their babies for adoption as part of the Women and Crisis Pregnancy study.

Adoption was one of three ways of responding to a “crisis” pregnancy for these women, the other two being single motherhood or abortion. For many women interviewed, the possible revelation of the sexual behaviour that led to their pregnancies, augmented by stress and fear, was what led to defining their pregnancy as a “crisis”.

The pregnant women we interviewed who were planning adoption were not in traditional mother and baby homes. They had been offered private accommodation by a voluntary organisation with links to adoption agencies.

They found it very difficult to continue a pregnancy with the knowledge that they would later part with their babies. In many cases their families were either not aware of their position or, if they were, offered them no support as future lone mothers. Abortion and secret adoption had two things in common: if a woman took either option, no one would know that she had had sex and got pregnant. Both protected family respectability and kept premarital sex hidden.

Un rapport parlementaire avance des pistes pour mieux prendre en charge les enfants placés

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Un rapport parlementaire avance des pistes pour mieux prendre en charge les enfants placés

Un rapport parlementaire avance des pistes pour mieux prendre en charge les enfants placés / AFP/Archives

Mieux former les familles d'accueil, simplifier certaines normes "incompatibles avec une vie normale" pour les enfants, faciliter l'adoption simple pour éviter l'errance dans les foyers: un rapport parlementaire publié mercredi propose des pistes pour mieux prendre en charge les enfants placés.

Police officers in Mumbai have exposed a baby-selling racket. The operation was led by women who would convince parents to sell the children.

he Mumbai Crime Branch busted a baby-selling racket on June 30, 2019. Four women were also arrested for running the operation.

They would monitor babies being born in the slums of Mumbai to parents facing financial problems.

The suspects would convince them to sell their child to childless couples for a few lakhs.

Police also arrested two buyers and rescued two babies who were sold to couples seeking this “shortcut” adoption route.

China plans to forbid all de facto single people from adopting children of the opposite sex who are less than 40 years younger as part of the efforts to prevent sexual abuse.

Experts hailed the latest review of the draft civil code as necessary but added that insufficient government oversight lies at the root of the problem.

During the bimonthly session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee last week, Shen Chunyao, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee of the NPC?the top legislature?reported to the Standing Committee that de facto singles, described as married people whose spouses are either missing or lack the ability to consent to civil acts, should be disallowed from adopting children who are not sufficiently younger than the person seeking adoption.

At the session, the draft civil code was submitted to the Standing Committee of the NPC for a second review.

Shen said the age gap rule only applies to single adopters in the current marriage section of the civil code and added that the revision is aimed at "protecting adoptees' legal interests".

Two of the six arrested women had been involved in surrogacy and egg donations. One is a security guard at a government hospital. In two separate cases, crime branch arrested a man and a woman for purchasing two infants. The two rescued boys are now with the child welfare committee.

Mumbai: The Mumbai crime branch have busted a child trafficking racket, running in the name of adoption. Two boys, 3 years old and 4 months old, sold earlier were also rescued.

According to the police, two of the six arrested women had been involved in surrogacy and egg donations. One is a security guard at a government hospital. In two separate cases, crime branch arrested a man and a woman for purchasing two infants. The two rescued boys are now with the child welfare committee. The gang has been active for the last several years. Chances are they might have sold over two boys, said police.

The arrested gang members have been identified as, Asha alias Lalita Danny Joseph, 35, Bhagyashri Koli, 26, Sunita Masane, 30, and Savita Chavhan, 30. Police have also arrested Amar Desai, 30, and Bhagyashree Kadam, 48, for purchasing a boy.

Police said on a tip-off recently that a gang in Govandi was running a child trafficking racket in the name of the adoption, the Crime Branch unit 6 launched a probe. Gang’s modus operandi was such they would buy infant boys from the poor parents in need of money and sell them off to the richer couples. During the probe, the sleuths came across a woman, who admitted to selling her infant for Rs 1,00,000.

MUMBAI: Busting a gang linked to a child trafficking case unearthed in 2017, the city crime branch has arrested a private

hospital coordinator-cum owner of an IVF consultancy firm along with three others for selling baby

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/selling-baby) boys of poor couples for as high as Rs 5 lakh. Another woman accused

is a security guard at a government hospital.

The crime branch also rescued two three-month-old boys sold to two couples in Kalyan and identified two more boys illegally

He knowingly violated CARA guideline and JJ Act: Journalist who accused filmmaker Vinod Kapri of faking an adoption story for self promotion

CARA CEO had tweeted back on June 16 itself that the story of the couple having 'adopted' the infant child was fake and that after due legal procedure the child will be rehabilitated to the couples already registered with CARA.

Journalist Abhishek Upadhyay who had accused filmmaker Vinod Kapri of faking an adoption story for self-promotion has now claimed that Kapri violated the CARA (Central Adoption Resource Authority) guidelines and the Juvenile Justice Act (JJ Act) while tweeting the updates about the girl child. He shared a tweet of CEO of CARA, the central adoption agency, who had tweeted back on June 16 itself that the story of Kapri having ‘adopted’ the child is fake.

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Process being facilitated by the Central Adoption Resource Authority since 2014-15

Naina Mishra

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 1

A single woman of French origin, who is a psychologist, proved to be an angel in disguise for a seven-year-old abandoned girl, who was living at a child protection unit. The woman adopted the child last year.

Accused supplied boys to couples without children, with daughters but no sons

The Mumbai Police Crime Branch has busted a racket that allegedly supplied boys to couples without children, and to those who had several daughters but no sons.

According to Crime Branch officials, the lid was blown off the racket after police inspector Chandrakant Dalvi from the Crime Branch Unit VI received a tip-off earlier this year. He learnt that a family from Mankhurd had recently sold their newborn son to the gang. A team of Unit VI personnel then worked on the information for nearly two months before picking up Bhagyashree Koli, who runs a surrogacy centre in Mumbai’s eastern suburbs.

Babies for sale

A Crime Branch officer said, “Our information indicated that Ms. Koli had facilitated the sale of a six-day-old boy to a couple in Bhiwandi who had no sons. We questioned her and she ultimately confessed that she had sold one such boy in March.”

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