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The Kerala High Court dismissed a Regular First Appeal preferred against the Decree and Judgment of the Principal Sub-Judge, Alappuzha.;

The Kerala High Court held that a Baptism Certificate alone would not suffice the necessity of a valid adoption by the Christians. 

The Court held thus in a Regular First Appeal preferred against the Decree and Judgment of the Principal Sub-Judge, Alappuzha.

A Single Bench of Justice A. Badharudeen observed, "Baptism certificate alone showing the name of adopted parents would not suffice the necessity of a valid adoption and long association of a member of the adopted family would not also confer status of adopted child on a person."

The Bench elucidated that there is no prohibition in Canon Law for having a valid adoption but there is no personal law in India applicable to Christians recognizing adoption.

Parents and relatives giving consent to foreigners in adoption do not fully understand the meaning and its implications of adoption, a situation that permits manipulation in the adoption process.

This is one of the key observations of a 2025 Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) study amid escalating reports of alleged unprocedural international adoptions by parents and guardians.

Part of the report, shared with Nation on Sunday, states that lack of awareness and knowledge on adoption is dire among poor families.

Faced resistance to adopt: Madonna with her children. I Nation

How Mumbai was once central to Swiss intercountry adoptions—and the questions that remain

Asha Sadan is a Mumbai landmark, inseparable from the city’s history. Located in Dongri, it is a place I have often passed—familiar yet easy to overlook. Established in 1921 by an Indian women’s association, it has long sheltered women and children, particularly unmarried mothers and their babies. Many of these children were placed for adoption, sometimes within India but often abroad.

I flipped through Mother Unknown: Adoption of Children from India in the Swiss Cantons of Zurich and Thurgau, 1973–2002. As I was drawn in by its focus on Mumbai and the children adopted overseas, I noticed the cover image—Asha Sadan. Two of the authors were credited with the photograph, though it does not explicitly identify the building, perhaps for the right reasons. The open-access book is edited by Andrea Abraham, Sabine Bitter and Rita Kesselring and published by Chronos Verlag (Zurich).

Asha Sadan’s sponsoring association, the Maharashtra State Women’s Council, was chaired by the Swiss Alice Khan-Meier. It was a popular adoption agency for many Swiss couples

Based on a study commissioned by the two Swiss cantons, Mother Unknown investigates intercountry adoptions, exposing legal and ethical lapses that left many adoptees without a clear record of their origins. It revisits cases of Indian children sent to Switzerland, and questions authorities which neglected safeguards in these adoptions; there is also a focus on serious consequences for those who grew up with incomplete, false or untraced identities.

Italy's right-wing government headed by Premier Giorgia Meloni has opposed singles' adoptions in court, but the country's centre-left opposition hailed Friday's ruling as a “historic turning point.”

Italy's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday (March 21, 2025) that unmarried people can adopt foreign minors, ending a 40-year-ban on the practice and setting a precedent that could pave the way to allowing Italian singles to adopt from within the country.

Friday's court ruling declared unconstitutional the exclusion of singles from international adoptions under a 1983 Italian law, which allowed only married couples to pursue international adoptions.

According to Italy's top court, the exclusion of single people risked undermining "the effectiveness of the child's right to grow up in a stable and harmonious family environment.”

The court decision also reflects concerns among adoption advocates over a downward trend in Italy's international adoption over the past few years, due to increasing difficulties for couples in completing adoptions abroad and the high costs related to the lengthy process.

A woman in the city was cheated of ₹7,500 on the promise of adopting a baby.

Radha (name changed) was shown a video by her sister, where with a payment of ₹12,500, a baby could be adopted from a hospital. Radha had emailed the organisation, mentioning the video regarding the adoption. They contacted her through a fake email of the Child Welfare Board, asking her to pay the amount and collect the baby at the Government Children Hospital in Egmore between 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Ms. Radha paid ₹7,500 of the total amount, but could not pay the rest due to network issues. “I visited the hospital to verify if the adoption was authentic. My husband and I have been trying to have a child for 14 years. We even approached the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) in the State, but due to the elaborate process and long wait time, we did not go through with it,” she said.

According to sources in the hospital, this is the first time such a scam was done online. “We spoke to the victim. She was not aware of the scam,” said a doctor from the hospital. The authorities have registered a complaint with the police.

Speaking on the incident, an official from the Child Welfare Committee said that this is recurring scams. “There is a need to create awareness on adoption among the public. Parents can adopt children only through the CARA and the State Adoption Resource Agency,” he added.

Onno uit Enschede was een rotjoch, een klootzak. Op z’n 30ste werd hij gevonden in de duinen van Hoek van Holland. Vermoord. Voor zijn zusje Joske Kuut een schok, maar de dag erop ging haar leven weer gewoon verder. Ogenschijnlijk, want op vakantie brak ze. „Ik kan nu zeggen dat ik van hem houd.”

Dit verhaal gaat niet over Onno, een van de beruchte ‘tattookillers’, mannen met Chinese karakters op hun rug die in opdracht liquidaties uitvoerden. Dit verhaal gaat over zijn zusje, zijn enige zusje. Het zusje dat op 26-jarige leeftijd haar grote broer verloor.

Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin questioned his adopted son in court about a trip to Ethiopia to try to find his family.

After 27 years of separation, Ms. Nguyen Trung Hiep tearfully reunited with her newborn twin daughters, who had been entrusted to a French couple to raise. She said, "I just hope you don't hate me."

Two days after meeting her biological daughter who came from France to Vietnam to find her, Mrs. Nguyen Trung Hiep (55 years old, residing in Xuyen Moc commune, Xuyen Moc district, Ba Ria province - Vung Tau) happily recounted the unexpected reunion after 27 years of separation and the difficult circumstances of the family during these years.

Speaking to VietNamNet reporter , Ms. Hiep said she was born and raised in Xuyen Moc commune, Xuyen Moc district. In 1997, after going through a "marriage," she married Mr. Nguyen Van Tien (residing in Hoa Hiep commune, Xuyen Moc district) and later gave birth to twin girls, Nguyen Thi Kim Hong and Nguyen Thi Kim Loan, in October 1998.

She said that at that time, her family was in a very difficult situation. She and her husband had to work for others, but they still had no money to eat. At that time, learning that many foreign couples were coming to Vietnam to adopt children, they intended to give one of the two Hong sisters up for adoption in the hope that their child would have a better life.