RANCHI: The officers and active service personnel of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) will adopt children who have lost their parents due to Covid-19.

Earlier this month, IG Railway Board (HQ) Sumati Shandilya wrote to the general managers of all railway zones and intimated about a new adoption programme under code name “Reach Out, Secure and Rehabilitate”. The programme is aimed at preventing the orphaned and vulnerable children from being drawn into the cauldron of human trafficking, Shandilya wrote.

Accordingly, the RPF officials at Ranchi railway division of the South Eastern Railways are gearing up for the programme. Under the programme, each officer or serving personnel will be assigned to look after one child and oversee their upkeep, academics and other requirements.

Speaking to TOI, RPF’s commandant of Ranchi railway division Prashant Yadav said: “We will be on the lookout for such children. As and when they are found, they will be brought and given shelter in local shelter homes through local NGOs. They will be lodged by the NGOs and their studies and other expenses will be taken care of by the Indian Railways.”

One officer or serving RPF personnel will be assigned to a child. The personnel will be in constant touch with the child, pay a weekly visit and even offer mental support and provide counselling. Special training module is being drafted for the RPF personnel.

'NOT 100% SURE' Angelina Jolie’s pal claims ‘orphan’ son Maddox’s biological parents ‘may not have both been dead’ before 2002 adoption

ANGELINA Jolie’s pal claimed her “orphan” son Maddox’s biological parents “may not have been dead” before his 2002 adoption.

Sarath Mounh, a former aid worker that helped the actress adopt her oldest son, said he isn’t “100% sure” if Maddox’s parents were alive at the time of his adoption.

Angelina's pal said claimed 'orphan' son Maddox’s biological parents 'may not have been dead' before his adoption

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I need no apology for being rescued with love, says ex-BBC boss ROGER MOSEY as politicians are pressured to say sorry to thousands of adopted children taken from their biological parents

I have always known that I was adopted. My parents — and I think of them as my real parents, although they were the adopters — told me the basic facts when I was still a toddler.

It was an approach often recommended as textbook. They explained there had been a lady who had a baby but sadly wasn't able to look after it; and a couple who had wanted a baby but couldn't have one.

So it was agreed the infant would go live with the couple; and he made that journey aged just six weeks on an icy February day in 1958. And that baby was me.

While I was growing up in Bradford in Yorkshire, I found this explanation perfectly satisfactory — and being adopted didn't bother me.

Identity of child not attached to father alone: Single mother moves Kerala HC against mandate to have father's name in child's Birth Certificate

An expectant single mother has moved the Kerala High Court challenging the Kerala Registration of Birth and Death Rules, 1999, specifically the requirement to give the details of the father of a child/person for the purpose of registration of birth/death and the requirement to show the name of father in the birth and death certificates of a person.

The petitioner chose to become pregnant by way of In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and is currently past her second trimester. This involved being artificially inseminated by an anonymous sperm donor whose identity is not disclosed even to the petitioner.

However, as per the aforementioned Kerala Registration of Birth and Death Rules (the Rules), it is compulsory to give the details of the father to acquire a birth certificate for the child.

The petition, filed through Advocate Aruna A, challenged the Rules on the ground that it is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India, right to privacy, and ultra vires to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969.

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For a long time, adoption has been seen as a way of fulfilling the desire to have children. The number of adoptions in Germany is now falling dramatically. At the same time, the proportion of stepchild adopters is growing. The reasons for this are diverse.

In Germany, significantly fewer couples adopt a child than a quarter of a century ago. The number of adoptions has more than halved within 25 years. While far fewer boys and girls are adopted from abroad, the proportion of stepchild adopters is increasing. What are the reasons for this and how has the handling of adoptions developed over the years?

Call Iris Egger-Otholt in Mainz. The 54-year-old is the head of the Joint Central Adoption Office for Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. "Especially in the area of ??international adoptions there is a drastic decline," says the expert. The reasons for this are varied - and can be found both in the country of origin and in Germany.

An important aspect in this country is the progress in reproductive medicine. "Today many people simply have much better opportunities to have their own child." According to the German IVF Register in Düsseldorf, the number of artificial inseminations is steadily increasing. While there were already more than 110,000 treatments in the fertility centers in 2019, the figure was only around 23,700 in 1994.

New Adoption Assistance Act

PUNE: A complaint has been filed against an unknown

woman after she abandoned a seven-month-old baby girl at

a private travel operator’s office on Thursday afternoon (July

15) in Alandi .

A woman from the travel operator’s office filed an FIR. “A

A couple of days ago, a childless couple from the US reached Madhubani and adopted a 2-year-old abandoned girl, Kavya, in the presence of the district magistrate.

PATNA: Abandoned by her parents, two-year-old Pakhi Kumari was brought up at the Specialised Adoption Institute in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar.

She was adopted by a childless couple from West Bengal, Reena and Sudipta Pal, on June 10. A couple of days ago, a childless couple from the US reached Madhubani and adopted a 2-year-old abandoned girl, Kavya, in the presence of the district magistrate.

These adoptions show a trend: more and more childless couples prefer a girl child from the state’s various Specialized Adoption Agencies (SSAs), run by the Social Welfare Department or NGOs.

The adoption of male children, abandoned by their biological parents in Bihar, has also increased in recent years. Recently, a couple arrived from Italy and adopted a male child from Muzaffarpur-based SAA.

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. — A Lake County family is fighting to bring home their daughter, who was adopted from an orphanage in Nigeria.

“They live in an orphanage, don’t get out much, everything over there is secluded in the sense that it’s like 10-foot walls, so when you get to the orphanage it’s like a 10-foot wall, so they can’t see over the walls,” said Ian Lord as he described his daughter, Ivy’s, living conditions.

Ian and Lisa Lord said they went through the lengthy process to legally adopt the child, but when they applied for a visa to get her to the United States, it was denied.

“It’s just unbelievable, it shouldn’t happen, there’s no excuse,” Lisa said, fighting back tears.

The couple told Channel 9 they’ve already spent more than $50,000 during the process, but it’s about more than the money. Two previous adoptions through Bulgaria also failed.

A MUM who fled the country with her son during a custody fight has won the battle for him to live with her and will tell her story on TV.

Ellie Yarrow-Sanders, from Basildon, will appear on a Channel 4 show, speaking for the first time since winning custody earlier this year.

In 2018, Miss Yarrow-Sanders vanished mid-way through a high court hearing over custody her three-year-old son.

Her disappearance led the judge to lift reporting restrictions on the case and make an appeal on social media for her to come home.

Eight months after her disappearance, Miss Yarrow-Sanders returned and the case resumed in private.