Return To Adoption System: Maneka Gandhi To Missionaries of Charity Homes

The move seeks to bring children living in 79 homes into family care, Maneka Gandhi said. (File)

NEW DELHI: Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday asked child-care homes run by the Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to "come back into" the government's system of adoption services.

In 2015, an ideological row erupted between the ministry and the Mother Teresa-founded organisation over issues such as the MoC's denial to give children to separated or divorced parents.

Following this, the Missionaries of Charity decided to stop putting children up for adoption under the government's Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) system.

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The women from Tamil Nadu were abandoned by their parents, and are lashing out at efforts to evict them from missionary shelter that raised them.

New Delhi: Come November, the judiciary will once again weigh in on an adult’s right to choose their way of life, months after the Hadiya ‘love jihad’ saga saw the Supreme Court uphold the sanctity of individual freedom with respect to marriage and religion.

Eighty-six women abandoned as children during a spate of female infanticide cases in a Tamil Nadu town have approached the Supreme Court against efforts to get them out of a Christian missionary shelter that raised them.

The shelter allegedly kept them ignorant of the most basic human activities, like handling money and buying goods, to brainwash and subsequently indoctrinate them.

The state is arguing for the women to be taken out of the Trichy-based Mose Ministries, but the women want to stay on. The Supreme Court will take a call on the issue on 14 November.

NEW BOSTON, N.H. — A New Hampshire couple who reported their 15-year-old daughter missing in September is now charged with kidnapping and child endangerment.

According to investigators, the couple held a minor captive in the basement of their New Boston, NH home for more than two months.

Police say Denise and Thomas Atkocaitis are the child's legal guardians and had been homeschooling her.

Investigators say the girl was kept inside an eight by eight-foot room in the basement of the Atkocaitis' home on Helena Drive in a rural part of the state. They say the only lighting came from one window which, according to police, was covered with wire mesh.

Abandoned on Road, Four-Year Old Girl from Ahmedabad Finds a New Family in Spain Four-year-old Heer has been adopted by Ana Pilar Gil de la Puente, a 42-year old Spanish woman.

Four-year-old Heer living in an Ahmedabad’s orphanage will soon have a new home — in Spain. On Monday, Ana Pilar Gil de la Puente, a 42-year old Spanish woman, completed the adoption procedures for the little girl and took the evening flight to Mumbai, from where she will be headed back home. Heer was found abandoned a road about two years ago and was handed over to the Shishu Gruh.

Speaking to News18, Ana said that this is indeed a thrilling day in her life. Asked what is in store for Heer in Spain, she said, “First of all, I will walk her through all the toys that have been setting up in her room. And then she will meet her cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents.”

It was her visit to India 17 years ago — when she worked with the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata — that inspired Ana to adopt an Indian child. “I had decided during my stay then that if I do not get married by the time I am 40, and if I do not have my biological children, I would adopt a child from India. And it did turn out to be exactly that way,” she said.

A professional French teacher, Ana is proficient in several other European languages. She said the adoption procedure lasted for a couple of years, but she is now extremely happy to have Heer as her child. “I have taken maternity leave for a few months. It is important that Heer gets acquainted with the culture back home and I should be able to spend maximum time with the child,” she said.

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The UK's £1.7billion foster industry has seen a growth of firms backed by huge private equity funds raking in taxpayers' cash. They are cashing in on the anguish felt by parents who lose their children into care.

ANGUISHED parents of children taken away by social services have slammed fat-cat businessmen whose firms earn tens of millions from selling foster care.

The UK's £1.7billion foster industry has seen a growth of firms backed by huge private equity funds raking in taxpayers' cash.

They charge huge fees to councils for fostering which last year was at a record high of 53,420 children - three-quarters of all those in care - with 78,000 placements.

Thousands of parents across the country are being dragged into secretive courts each year where social services are removing children in record numbers.