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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court recently took a note of the rise of ‘competitiveness’ in human life and especially in the field of education. The HC said that education of a child has reached to an ‘absurd and impossible’ level wherein the future of children is often ‘imperilled’ because of this competitiveness.

A single-judge bench of Justice Gautam Patel removed the embargo of two years for the adoption of a child. The bench was responding to a petition filed by a couple seeking to adopt a six-year-old boy. The couple, however, could not adopt the child as a nearly two-decade-old ruling of the HC obstructed their dreams.

“The factual scenario today is very different from what it was merely two decades ago. The question of identity and proof of identity for every living person and citizen has assumed a certain criticality. From the child’s earliest days, parents must now have ready at hand for a multitude of purposes documentation establishing the child’s birth, identity and parentage. One of the most crucial areas is the question of admission to educational institutions,” Justice Patel said noted.

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Deep State Blocking Adoptions

Larry ProvostLarry Provost|Posted: Apr 11, 2018 12:01 AM

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A State Department official that once implied that a prominent American international adoption advocate had “racist and colonialist notions” is now in charge of international adoptions at that agency and, according to a group called SaveAdoptions , is destroying the chances for orphaned children worldwide to get adopted by families who have lined up to rescue them.

The official, Trish Maskew, was hired in 2014 as the Adoption Chief in the Department of State’s Office of Children’s Issues (OCI). Prior to her State Department tenure, Maskew testified that “Adoption is one of the most unregulated industries in America today” and implied that adoption agencies need to be shut down. This is not the only time Maskew, prior to her tenure at the State Department, took a jab at adoption advocates.

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Sam Mercer overcame seemingly impossible odds to make it to his senior year at Scarborough High School.

He lost his left leg to an infection that required amputation when he was less than a month old in his native Ethiopia. His father put him in an orphanage when he was 6. His adoptive American parents gave him up after three years. He bounced around Colorado foster homes and schools for most of the next decade.

But then last year he landed in Scarborough, where he quickly found himself in a real home and began to spread inspiration and cheer in the hallways of Scarborough High.

“Sam’s super power was his ability to inspire people,” said Dan Mercer, his newly adoptive father. “He was a survivor. He was loved by everyone. He resonated with people because of his disability and how he approached it.”

Now the high school community is mourning the death of the popular teenager, who celebrated his 18th birthday March 26 with Mercer, an associate chaplain at Long Creek Youth Development Center who has been a single foster father to 15 other boys, six of whom he adopted.

Only 46 such children were adopted in 2017-2018

Only 46 such children were adopted in 2017-2018 | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Adoptions by foreign applicants rise by 50%

For every Indian parent who adopts a differently-abled child there are at least seven foreigners who adopt such children from India after they fail to find a family in the country.

The latest data shared by the apex body for adoption in the country — Child Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) — reveals that domestic adoptions of children with special needs has fallen with every passing year. At the same time, foreigners adopting children with a physical deformity or an ailment rose by 50% last year alone.

Better to stay in the community than having an un-Polish family?

Editorial Staff 06 April 2018

Marco Griffini, president of AiBi, comments on Poland's decision to restrict international adoptions and re-launch European adoption. "And the right to grow up in a family? We need subsidiarity towards abandoned European minors who identify in the 'European families' the privileged place to grow them, with the creation of a European Commission for International Adoptions »

Poland has decided to restrict international adoptions . Thus , Poland sadly starts to be the second European country to close the international adoptions, after Romania , which made this choice in 2005. A decision that was mitigated here since 2013, after the entry into force of Law 233 / 2011: international adoptions have been partially reopened, only for Romanian couples living abroad or where at least one of the spouses is a citizen of Romania.

The decision taken by the Polish authorities arouses a bitter taste , writes AiBi and opens a great question on the rule of law of the "new Europe" and on the community strategies for child protection. The Cai communiqué states that "the Government of the Republic of Poland has decided to restrict international adoptions, giving priority to national adoptions in the conviction of finding available adoptive families in Poland or a family substitute environment" but, comments Marco Griffini, president of AiBi, "amazes that only now the Polish authorities raise the issue of the priority of national adoptions compared to international ones,as if until now the adoptable minors on the international adoption channel had not been reported for a defined period of time in the waiting list for national adoption. Hard to believe it. Rather, it seems to us that this "exit" of the Polish Government is wholly specious and in reality hides another ".

Adoptions in Poland (05/04/2018)

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In the last few months, as noted, some adopting families in Poland have received the favorable opinion of the Polish Catholic Center for combining with Polish minors and subsequently, after several months of waiting, they have been informed that the Ministry of the Family and of Labor and Social Policies, as the Polish Central Authority, did not consent to the continuation of the adoption procedure .

The Vice President of the Commission has written two letters to the Polish Central Authority for explanations about the numerous denials.

The note from the Ministry of Family and Labor and Social Policies recently received a statement that the Government of the Republic of Poland has decided to restrict international adoptions, giving priority to national adoptions in the belief that they are in Poland. of available adoptive families or a replacement family environment.

International adoptions

Poland restricts international adoptions

Editorial Staff 05 April 2018

In recent months, the Polish Central Authority has refused consent for adoption for minors for which the Warsaw Catholic Adoption Center had given a favorable opinion. These minors will no longer be adoptable, says the government to the CAI, also communicating a restriction of international adoptions

Poland restricts international adoptions, favoring national adoptions, in the belief that it is possible to find adoptive families or a family substitute environment in Poland. This is the response that the Ministry of the Family and Labor and Social Policies of Poland sent to the International Adoptions Committee, which had asked for explanations about the numerous denials received in recent months by some adopting families routed in Poland. The families had received an opinion favorable to the combination with Polish minors by the Catholic Adoption Center in Warsaw but later, after several months of waiting, the Ministry as the Polish Central Authority had not consented to the continuation of the adopted procedure.Cai communicates this on its website. For all minors for whom the Ministry of Family and Labor and Social Policies has in recent months refused consent, there will also be the revocation of international adoption.

The Maharashtra Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MCPCR) has recommended strict implementation of the guidelines prescribed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for those who want to have a child through surrogacy until the bill on surrogacy laws was passed by Parliament.

The recommendation came as part of an order while hearing the complaint of a 43-year-old woman, who was abandoned by her husband after he had a male child through surrogacy, without his wife's consent. In a 17-page order, the commission asked the State to set up a task force to monitor the implementation of guidelines and to tighten the supervision of hospitals facilitating delivery of children through surrogacy.

Advocate Anjali Pawar, from the Pune-based NGO Against Child Trafficking, said that commercial surrogacy itself should be banned as surrogate mothers are used as money minting machines. "There is so much emphasis on norms for organ donation. But when a woman's womb is being sold, who takes responsibility for what she undergoes?" said Pawar.

She emphasised that ICMR guidelines are not followed. "So many couples raise specific requests — the number of children they want, gender, etc. There is no regulation whatsoever," she said.

The MCPCR has also asked people, including actors, desiring a child through surrogacy, surrogate mothers and egg/sperm donors to register themselves with clinics or hospitals.