Acknowledged as the youngest single man to adopt a child, Aditya Tiwari exposed the orphanage malpractices while sharing his struggle to adopt a child.

Acknowledged as the youngest single man to adopt a child in India, Indore based Aditya Tiwari exposed the orphanage malpractices while sharing his struggle to adopt a child. In 2016, he adopted Avnish who is a boy suffering from Down Syndrome. Recently he shared a post on ‘Humans of Bombay’, which is a Facebook page. The post highlights the struggle that finally led to Avnish’s adoption and the problems faced with the orphanage. His post also exposed all the malpractices that were executed by the orphanage.

"We just clicked"

The post was then circulated on Social media. Aditya's post touched the hearts of many and his struggle motivated people across the Internet as it spread a message of harmony and humanity. Aditya in his post told to Humans of Bombay that five years ago he had visited the orphanage, to distribute sweets on his father’s birthday. He recalled that Avnish was lying in a corner and nobody paid any attention to him. Avnish was only 5-months old when Aditya first saw him.

“I couldn't help myself, so I went and picked him up - he laughed, and we just clicked”.

The Commission has asked the country’s apex body on adoption, the Central Adoption Resource Authority, for data on children who are returned after adoption.

NEW DELHI: Worried at the rising instance of adopted children being surrendered, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has decided to carry out a fact- finding exercise to understand whether the problem lies in the regulations, implementation or with the adoptive parents.

The Commission has also asked the country’s apex body on adoption, the Central Adoption Resource Authority, for data on children who are returned after adoption.

There were about 4,000 in-country and inter-country adoptions of orphaned or surrendered children in India last year. Many of the children who were eventually returned had special needs.

“It has been decided to study such surrendering of children as such situations not only result in trauma to the children but also shake their faith in the institution of family,” a senior official in the NCPCR said.

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Woman who had to give up a child holds State liable

The first of more than ten thousand mothers who had to give up their child in the 50s, 60s and 70s, a woman went to court. Trudy Scheele-Gertsen (73) calls it disgraceful in the newspaper Trouw what happened to her and her son. She does not want compensation, but recognition of the suffering caused to her and her son.

Scheele-Gertsen became pregnant unmarried in the late 1960s and ended up in a home for unmarried mothers in Oosterbeek. Although she clearly stated that she wanted to keep her child, she had to give up her son immediately after birth. In those days, she insisted on seeing him once more.

Her lawyer, Lisa-Marie Komp, tells Trouw that the Child Protection Board could have known that she wanted to keep her child. In addition, says Komp, Dutch law and the Convention on Human Rights signed by the Netherlands had already established that the bond between mother and child is essential.

Scheele-Gertsen was also not informed of her rights, namely that she was entitled to assistance, to financial support from the father. Her child ended up in a home and was adopted after almost three years. She would later read in his file that he missed his mother in those early years and cried a lot.

Netherlands investigates 10,000 cases of forced adoptions

A mother denounces the State for forcing her to give up her son. The cases occurred between 1956 and 1984.

More than 10,000 Dutch teenagers and young people, all of them single mothers, were forced to leave their children for adoption between 1956 and 1984, pressured by their families and by the public bodies that attended them, whether they were shelters, Child Protection , social workers or doctors. One of them, Trudy Scheele-Gertsen, has filed the first complaint of its kind against the State for the pain caused.

Biological mothers and fathers in the same situation, but above all their children, belong to a generation that Eugénie Smits van Waesberghe, adopted in 1970, describes as "forgotten" in her own country. They seek justice, and they expect it from the Government, that on September 30 will open an investigation into what happened during the three decades indicated.

In 1956 the Adoption Law was passed in Holland. In 1984, the Abortion Law, and between both dates, “you could not fight

"The day Avnish came home, it was like sunshine walked into my life," says Aditya Tiwari

A heartfelt post shared on the popular Facebook page 'Humans of Bombay' has gone massively viral online. The post tells the story of Aditya Tiwari, an Indore man who, in 2016, became the youngest single man in India to adopt a child. It details his long struggle and what motivated him to keep going in his attempts to adopt Avnish - a boy with Down Syndrome.

"About 5 years back, when it was my father's birthday, I went to an orphanage to distribute sweets...that's when I saw Avnish for the first time," Mr Tiwari tells 'Humans of Bombay'.

At that time, Avnish was five-months-old and lying in a corner with nobody paying attention to him.

"I couldn't help myself, so I went and picked him up - he laughed, and we just clicked," says Mr Tiwari, describing the moment that would lead to a long struggle in which he exposed orphanage malpractices before ultimately succeeding in adopting Avnish.

MUMBAI: Every year, roughly 207 newly born children are abandoned (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/abandoned) in

nullahs or cribs outside children’s homes across Maharashtra (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/maharashtra).

The National Crime Records Bureau (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Crime-Records-Bureau) (NCRB

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/NCRB))’s latest report shows Maharashtra led other states in the number of

abandoned newborns (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/newborns) between 2011 and 2017. Maharashtra reported

In the 1960s, then 22-year-old Trudy Gertsen gave up her son against her will. Today, she holds the State responsible.

The first big blow came in November 1967. Trudy Gertsen (21) was five months pregnant and unmarried. She had completed her nursing training without telling anyone about her pregnancy. If the nuns with whom the women lived during nursing training had known, she would have been kicked out immediately. She has no doubts about that.

Now she's back with her parents, fully expecting to give birth there. After that, she'll look for a job and a home to raise her son. Her boyfriend, the baby's father, turns out to have another girl. So be it, she thinks, I'll do it alone.

But instead, her mother takes her out for a walk and tells her she has to give up the child. Trudy is not welcome in her childhood home.

Trudy Scheele-Gertsen, now 73, falls silent as she recounts that walk, taking a sip of water. "And home was quite a big house. But it wasn't possible. It was impossible." "I've arranged something for you," her mother said on that autumn day, more than fifty years ago. She sent her daughter to the Paula Foundation in Oosterbeek, a home for unwed mothers.

Tannishtha Chatterjee’s latest film Jhalki, a tribute Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, was screened in his presence this Saturday. After the screening, the actors from the film — which is about a little girl named Jhalki who leaves home to rescue her younger brother Babu from a carpet-weaving unit — also participated in a round table conference, discussing the subject of the film: Child slavery and bonded labour.

Directed by Brahmanand S Singh and written by Prakash Jha and Kamlesh Kunti Singh, the film has done rounds of festivals like the Singapore South Asian International Film Festival, the Jagran Film Festival, as well as the Cannes Film Festival.

Talking about it, Tannishtha, in an exclusive conversation, says: “I am a single mother who has adopted a girl child and named her Radhika. She’s only been with me for three months, and when I first got her she was quick to question ‘abhi tak kahaan they?’ (Where were you until now?). There is a line in the film where Jhalki asks Boman Irani’s character the same question when they go to save her brother. So the film has been weaved with real incidents, and will remain in my heart always for that reason.”

When asked about her choice to be a single mother, the actress reveals that many people in her life warned her against it. “So many of my friends and relatives too advised me not to choose my freedom by adopting any child, and especially a girl. However, I was contemplating adopting a girl child for a long time. And this time, when my friends tried to remind me about my flourishing career, I simply said that I will manage it even with my daughter. And now I am really happy to be juggling my professional life with looking after her. Of course, it can get difficult, but managing on both the fronts makes me feel very happy,” she smiles.

Tannishtha further reveals that adoption was on her mind way before Jhalki came into the picture. “When I did Lion in 2016, where Saroo gets separated from his family at the age of five and then ends up being adopted, I have been contemplating adopting a girl since then,” she shares.

EXCLUSIVE: Revealed - the Filipino baby and teen mom at center of human trafficking claim: Utah woman posed as newborn's aunt 'to smuggle him to U.S. in her carry-on for Mormon blessing'

Jennifer Talbot, 42, claimed she was the aunt of a six-day-old baby after she was allegedly caught trying to 'smuggle' the child on a flight from Manila to Detroit

She was carrying an affidavit of consent and support from Maicris Dulap, 19, of Mt Diwata, who gave birth to baby Andrew on August 29, on September 4

The document, obtained by DailyMail.com reveals the teen mom stated the child was traveling to the US with his 'aunt' to meet his dying great-grandmother

She also said the baby was to receive a membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and American medical vaccines