Why is Maneka Gandhi, the minister of women and child development, determined to shift the process of adoption of children out of the domain of the courts and place it under the control of an executive magistrate (district collector)?

Adoption, as defined in Section 2(2) of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, “means the process through which the adopted child is permanently separated from his biological parents and becomes the lawful child of his adoptive parents with all the rights, privileges and responsibilities that are attached to a biological child”.

Severing of ties with an existing family and creating permanency in a new family requires due diligence and precaution. These concerns have been addressed by the Supreme Court of India, the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) and the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) in the past. Obviously, Gandhi thinks differently and feels the judicial process is cumbersome and time-consuming and so believes that the executive magistrate will help expedite this process.

The minister, however, seems to overlook the fact that the overworked district collector is already busy with the task of implementing over 100 separate programmes. He/she is hardly in a position to be able to personally scrutinise and verify every document for adoption. The chances are that he/she will hand over the task of scrutinising this to juniors.

Also, at the district-level, the executive magistrate is a nomenclature that is used to cover several revenue officials, including even tehsildars. Will tehsildars now decide which child is to be given in adoption to which family?

The Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality, Dolors Montserrat, has appeared in the new Commission on the Rights of Children and Adolescents created this legislature in the Congress of Deputies, where she has announced her will to launch "a Pact of State for Children "that addresses, from the political and territorial consensus, the necessary protection of children.

For the minister, this pact should be established based on three lines of action, which could be framed in the three categories of children's rights enshrined in the Convention and known as the "three pes": promotion, protection and participation.

Likewise, to work on this Pact, the minister proposes "to constitute a study subcommittee that addresses the state pact for childhood in the" three pess "and analyzes the needs of the different models and family situations to which we have to respond as shared custody and custody, the delimitation of the concept of a single-parent family and aid for large families.

Promotion and support of the family

Minister Dolors Montserrat has begun her intervention defending the role of the family in the protection and promotion of childhood. "This Government is clear that protecting and supporting families is the main way to protect children and provide them with greater present and future well-being." For this reason, he has underlined the need to support families, which each one forms, so that they can fully assume their responsibilities.

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Roopali’s Story

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Life in my Indian Village

I was born in 1991 and in 1999, I ran away from my Nayakund Village in Nagpur District, State of Maharashtra. I had discovered 50 Rupees (ie 0.5 AUD) on the table of the neighbour’s house and together with my brother and sister (Rajkumar and Sanchali), we spent it on lollies and toys. We got in big trouble and the incident caused quite a racket for my father and mother because the neighbours shouted accusations that we children were being trained as thieves. The big fight amongst the adults and my parents scared my sister alot and she wanted to see the train as a distraction. I followed her. We walked about six kilometres from the village to the nearest town Mansar. We continued exploring by foot to the nearby larger town of Ramtek, which had a train station and bus depot.

The Remand Home for Girls

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Smriti Gupta, adoption activist and counsellor.

Smriti Gupta, adoption activist and counsellor.(HT?Photo)

Adoption activist and counsellor Smriti Gupta, 37, criticises the moral degradation of society of either looking at adoption as a helpless resort or a preference-based market for children. Speaking to Hindustan Times, the mother of two adopted children shatters the myths related to adoption with facts covering India.

What is the issue with child preference in adoption, in India?

Preferences are usually provided as options to parents while registering, but sometimes this could also be the shortcoming in the process. For instance, most parents prefer to adopt babies, citing reasons like bonding or adjustment issues, or to experience the feeling of bringing up a child. And, statistically, only 103 children below two years of age, out of a monthly pool of 1,525 adoptable children in India, as per the recent data, thus increasing the wait time. Personally, I feel all this can be fulfilled even with a slightly older child. Also, preferences are made with respect to gender, states and so on.

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Tanushree Bhatia

Sunday 21 January 2018 5:30 IST

In a major setback to Gujarat's centenarian orphanage in Rajkot, it has recorded the lowest adoption cases in a decade. This is being blamed on the revised guidelines by the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA), which in an attempt to ensure transparency and clarity, has helped raise a process without any human element, its critics say.

The 110-year-old Kathiawar Nirashrit Balashram in Rajkot, the oldest orphanage in the state that has in past 50 years facilitated more than 700 adoptions, could provide homes for only 13 children in 2017 .

AHMEDABAD: Vastrapur police on Thursday arrested four persons in connection with the abduction of a one-year-old boy from a footpath near Hebatpur Circle. Investigators said that the boy, the son of labourers, was given to a childless couple and the deal was finalized for Rs 1 lakh.

The couple had paid Rs 50,000 but when they learned about abduction of a boy matching the description, they abandoned the child in an auto. The auto driver handed over the boy to Adalaj police.

null According to Vastrapur police, a team led by sub-inspector M A Vaghela got information that four accused involved in the abduction case are near their residence at Gujarat Housing Board near Gota. The Vastrapur police team along with a team from Sola police station reached the spot and rounded up Jignesh Parmar, 23, Sangeeta Chauhan, 52, Poonam Baraiya, 30, and Jitendra Mehta, 45, all residents of Gujarat Housing Board colony at Gota.

"In preliminary questioning, they said that the boy was abducted while he was sleeping on January 11, from Hebatpur. They had come to know that a childless couple was seeking to adopt a child. They had promised the couple a child and that they would complete the paperwork required. The couple had agreed to pay Rs 1 lakh to Parmar and had given Rs 50,000 in advance," said Vaghela.

When the group gave the child to the couple they asked for the documents and said they will pay the remaining money only after the paperwork was complete. Meanwhile, the couple read in a newspaper about the abduction of a child matching the child they had received and realized he was abducted.

Kaduna State bans Child Adoption - BellaNaija

Kaduna State Government has banned fostering and adoption of children due to abuse by orphanage homes in the state, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hafsat Baba, has said.

Baba said in an interview on Thursday in Kaduna that the government had discovered that some of the orphanage homes were conduits for trafficking and abuse of children.

She said that the ban would remain in force until the government sanitises the system of adoption and fostering of children in the state. She said:

When we came on board, we found out that people just turn their houses into orphanages and get these children, but won’t give them out for fostering or adoption.

About 900 children await adoption from orphanages

Four years since the government embarked on a mission to close orphanages and other children’s institutions and reintegrate children into family based care, the National Commission for Children (NCC) says that nearly 900 children still await placement.

By

Nasra Bishumba

Published : January 18, 2018