Gurgaon: A couple, waiting for years to have a child of their own, has been booked for illegally adopting a two-month-old girl. The mother of the child, a minor from Jharkhand, eloped with a man from her state and handed the girl to the couple from Sector 71, police said.

The illegal adoption came to light when the couple visited the One Stop Centre Sakhi — a unit of the Child Welfare Committee — for a birth certificate of the girl. The officials there found that the couple had bypassed the norms for adoption and merely got an affidavit made through a lawyer that said that the minor girl from Jharkhand was willingly handing over her biological daughter to them.

The CWC has taken custody of the child and sent her to a shelter home in Faridabad. Following a complaint at Badshapur police station, the couple has been booked under section 80 (adoption of child without following established provision) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act. The section carries a maximum punishment of one year in jail.

Tapan Roy, a private firm employee, and his wife Jayashri had been trying for a child ever since they got married four years ago.

Originally from North 24-Parganas in West Bengal, Tapan came in contact with Milan Pramanik, a tea seller in Sector 71. Since

A mum forced to give up her son ten days after giving birth at the age of 14 has been reunited with him 52 years later.

Lynne Oakes’s childhood was shattered when she fell pregnant to an older man.

And was sent away to a mother and baby home because “my parents just couldn’t handle it”

After having her son in 1968 she spent a precious few days with him before he was “snatched from her arms” for adoption.

Lynne, 68, who was the youngest mum in the home, recalled the terrible grief of losing her child after taking to motherhood immediately.

Whether children from a second marriage would have a share in ancestral property? The Supreme Court issued notice in a special leave petition which raised this issue.

In this case, the petitioner had approached the Apex Court challenging a High Court observation that the children should not inherit a share in the property of their grandmother since they were born out of 'the second wife'.

While issuing notice, the bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy also noticed that a larger question as to whether in the ancestral property, the said children from a second marriage would have a share is pending consideration in Ravanasiddappa & Anr. vs.Mallikarjun & Ors, (2011) 11 SCC 1. The matter be listed after the judgement in the aforementioned case is pronounced, the court said.

Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, provides that any child of a marriage which is null and void under section 11, who would have been legitimate if the marriage had been valid, shall be legitimate. However, Section 16(3) provides that it shall not be construed as conferring upon any child of a marriage which is null and void or which is annulled by a decree of nullity under section 12, any rights in or to the property of any person, other than the parents, in any case where, but for the passing of this Act, such child would have been incapable of possessing or acquiring any such rights by reason of his not being the legitimate child of his parents.

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However, judge reprimands the U.S. citizens for trying to adopt the child under a wrong law

The Delhi High Court has declared a Christian couple, both U.S. citizens, as ‘adoptive parents’ to a minor girl born out of Hindu parents while reprimanding them for trying to adopt the child under a wrong law.

The High Court reiterated that Christian and Muslim couples could not adopt a Hindu child under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (HAMA), as was sought to be done in this case.

“The Adoption Deed drawn up under the HAMA is invalid as the parties are Christians and not Hindus,” Justice Asha Menon said, taking note of the fact that the child, now more than 6-years-old, had been under the custody of the adoptive parents since her birth.

Justice Menon said the child was being well taken care of by the foster parents and their family and hence “there is no cause to remove the child from their charge and custody.”

The Government has published a new National Adoption Strategy which, it says, "is set to improve adoption services in England by putting in place better recruitment across the country and removing any unnecessary delays, through more training for front line staff, improving approval process and funding for targeted recruitment campaigns".

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HEUSDEN - Tineke Couwenberg and Bieni Beekhuizen from Heusden have it all done; foster daughter Ilse (24) is now also their daughter on paper. Under Dutch law, adoption of adult (foster) children is not possible at all. In order to get it done, the Heusdens had to invoke the European Convention on Human Rights.

"It was the most beautiful day of her life for her," says Tineke Couwenberg (70) about Ilse. She can legally call her her daughter since Wednesday 14 July. Of course, the same also applies to her wife Bieni Beekhuizen (74). That day, the multiple chamber of the Bossche court ruled that they - and no one else - are Ilse's parents.

There is also the feeling. And that's miles behind

But what a struggle it has been. In fact, they have become too accustomed to fighting against the intractability, opposition and injustice of institutions in the field of youth care and foster care. Tineke and Bieni know very well that they have won their last fight. That it's over. But that's the mind. There is also such a thing as feeling ... and it is still miles behind.

For now we don't do anything anymore. For now it's always Sunday with us

For "The Land of Promises", the Belgian photographer (27) returned to her native country and gives her personal view on the one-child policy in China.

A man is about to leave for China for the first time . In the hall of Zaventem airport he meets the eight other Belgians with whom he will spend the next two weeks. In total six families flew to Beijing at the end of July 1994.

After a day's layover, they leave again, this time to Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in the south of the country. From Changsha, the group traveled by bus to the countryside. Since his departure in Brussels, the man has filmed everything, including the endless fields and the kilometers of journeys through desolate landscapes.

After dropping off their belongings at the hotel and completing some administrative formalities at the notary, the families finally arrive at the Yueyang orphanage. The place is faded, the paint is peeling off the walls. From the bus, the man films the arrival in the courtyard of the building, as well as the waiting that follows. Youqine, then eight months old, is finally introduced to him and she crawls into his arms for the first time. The nannies from the orphanage then bring the other children. Six girls were adopted that day. Youqine's father was one of the first Belgians to adopt a child from China.

In 2017, nearly a quarter of a century later, time and memory erased many things, but the records of these adoptive families have remained completely intact. For Youqine, the period of rejection from her country of origin has come to an end, and a time of questions seems to have come: "For years I had a conflicted relationship with China, I did not want to return at all. I was terrified of it, but when I 23, I instinctively felt I was ready. I think it's something grown up, wanting to know where you are in your life."

Fine Gael leader lobbied for Romanian adoption

Mon, Feb 23, 2004, 00:00

The leader of Fine Gael, Mr Enda Kenny, lobbied for a Romanian adoption for an Irish couple despite a ban on foreign adoptions demanded by the EU in accession negotiations.

Mr Kenny's name appears on a list of politicians who lobbied for Romanian adoptions, despite a two-year moratorium on the practice, alongside the European Commission President, Mr Romano Prodi, and US Senator Mr John Kerry, the Democratic presidential hopeful.

"As far as I recall it was for two couples in Castlebar that I wrote a reference saying that they were people of good standing," said Mr Kenny. "I can't recall anyone saying 'Please write me a letter because with the moratorium we cannot get a child unless you do."

Vietnamese children and young people have been disappearing in Germany for years. Behind this are unscrupulous human traffickers. Many of the young Vietnamese end up as work slaves. The film tells their story.

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