Action taken following complaint to Union Minister Maneka Gandhi

Anantapur Sishu Gruha manager Deepthi was dismissed from service on corruption charges following directions from the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development.

The officer of the Andhra Pradesh Women Development and Child Welfare (WD&CW) department allegedly took bribe from a Canadian woman who came to adopt a baby.

According to sources, the Canadian made an online application for adoption of a female baby from India on the portal of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), Government of India, a few months ago.

For inter-country adoptions, the Authorised Foreign Adoption Agency (AFAA) will prepare a Home Study Report (HSR) on the family details and the reasons for adopting the baby and other particulars and submit a report to CARA. After receiving necessary documents from AFAA and verification, the adoptive parents can choose the baby online and the State Adoption Resource Agency (SARA) of the State concerned will hand over the selected baby to the couple.

Process being facilitated by the Central Adoption Resource Authority since 2014-15

Naina Mishra

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 1

A single woman of French origin, who is a psychologist, proved to be an angel in disguise for a seven-year-old abandoned girl, who was living at a child protection unit. The woman adopted the child last year.

Adoption advocates ask the courts to block a crippling new State Department policy that would harm waiting families and children.

Jacques and Emily Rancourt have the kind of family you don’t see every day. Not only are they raising seven children—five through adoption—but most of their adopted children have life-threatening congenital heart defects. The Rancourts have spent so much time in cardiac care at Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. that they and another couple started a charity for families of children in cardiac crisis.

“Lily can connect with these children in the hospital like no one else can,” Emily says of her 9-year-old daughter, whose remarkable story includes receiving a heart transplant at age four. “She’s using the gift she was given to the maximum. She blesses people everywhere she goes.”

This video, originally made for the American Heart Association, gives a glimpse of what Lily has overcome:

But according to Emily, their adoption of Lily and her four siblings almost didn’t happen. The Rancourts had always been interested in adopting, but when they started to research the process about ten years ago, they quickly became overwhelmed. “The process just seemed so complicated, and the cost seemed prohibitive,” Emily says. “We began to think, ‘Adoption isn’t for people like us.’”

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Overregulation of international adoption is driving the industry into extinction. Jayme Metzgar, senior contributor at The Federalist and founder of the adoption non-profit Romania Reborn, joins Ben Domenech on the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss major issues with the State Department’s adoption policies and the failure to advocate for adoption overseas.

“In the past 10 years, it has gone from over 200 adoption agencies that accredited to less than 150. And less than 100 of those actually do foreign placement,” Metzgar said. “The State Department would much rather have a just few large agencies in charge of adoption instead of smaller agencies.”

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United Nations launch for global Justice for Children initiative

4 July 2019

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The Justice for Children global initiative is today (July 4) launching a Call to Action to place children at the heart of justice in every nation of the world, at the United Nations.

The work is being led by project director Professor Jennifer Davidson, Executive Director of the University of Strathclyde Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures, in collaboration with many outstanding internationally-recognised partners, including the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children and the Child Justice Advocacy Group, with Terre des hommes and Defence for Children International.

He knowingly violated CARA guideline and JJ Act: Journalist who accused filmmaker Vinod Kapri of faking an adoption story for self promotion

CARA CEO had tweeted back on June 16 itself that the story of the couple having 'adopted' the infant child was fake and that after due legal procedure the child will be rehabilitated to the couples already registered with CARA.

Journalist Abhishek Upadhyay who had accused filmmaker Vinod Kapri of faking an adoption story for self-promotion has now claimed that Kapri violated the CARA (Central Adoption Resource Authority) guidelines and the Juvenile Justice Act (JJ Act) while tweeting the updates about the girl child. He shared a tweet of CEO of CARA, the central adoption agency, who had tweeted back on June 16 itself that the story of Kapri having ‘adopted’ the child is fake.

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MUMBAI: Busting a gang linked to a child trafficking case unearthed in 2017, the city crime branch has arrested a private

hospital coordinator-cum owner of an IVF consultancy firm along with three others for selling baby

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/selling-baby) boys of poor couples for as high as Rs 5 lakh. Another woman accused

is a security guard at a government hospital.

The crime branch also rescued two three-month-old boys sold to two couples in Kalyan and identified two more boys illegally

Two of the six arrested women had been involved in surrogacy and egg donations. One is a security guard at a government hospital. In two separate cases, crime branch arrested a man and a woman for purchasing two infants. The two rescued boys are now with the child welfare committee.

Mumbai: The Mumbai crime branch have busted a child trafficking racket, running in the name of adoption. Two boys, 3 years old and 4 months old, sold earlier were also rescued.

According to the police, two of the six arrested women had been involved in surrogacy and egg donations. One is a security guard at a government hospital. In two separate cases, crime branch arrested a man and a woman for purchasing two infants. The two rescued boys are now with the child welfare committee. The gang has been active for the last several years. Chances are they might have sold over two boys, said police.

The arrested gang members have been identified as, Asha alias Lalita Danny Joseph, 35, Bhagyashri Koli, 26, Sunita Masane, 30, and Savita Chavhan, 30. Police have also arrested Amar Desai, 30, and Bhagyashree Kadam, 48, for purchasing a boy.

Police said on a tip-off recently that a gang in Govandi was running a child trafficking racket in the name of the adoption, the Crime Branch unit 6 launched a probe. Gang’s modus operandi was such they would buy infant boys from the poor parents in need of money and sell them off to the richer couples. During the probe, the sleuths came across a woman, who admitted to selling her infant for Rs 1,00,000.

Adoption tourism to Sri Lanka

During the early 1980s, I was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka. No adoption organization was involved in the mediation of the adoption. I was adopted privately or informally by my Swedish adoptive parents.

My adoptive mother's brother worked in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka and conveyed the contact between my adoptive parents and a local couple who handled overseas adoptions. The couple found children for tourists who wanted to adopt and assist with the legalization of the adoption. They facilitated the adoption process and realized thousands of charter tourists' family formation projects.

The fact that Swedish charter tourists adopted informally during this time has been discussed and accounted for in several contexts in both Sweden and Sri Lanka. A Swedish social worker who has reasoned about a reason why Swedes adopted informally means that the waiting times for adopting were long in Sweden. In the late 1970s, for example, an adoption organization had waiting times of 3-4 years. Hence, the social worker believes that it became understandable that those who wanted to become adoptive parents chose informal ways to form their family.

The first so-called long-haul flights from Sweden went to Sri Lanka and the Gambia as early as 1971. The countries were marketed as relatively cheap destinations far away from Sweden. The marketing was aimed at Swedes who were at a normal income level with capital to spend and time to spare for a trip.

China plans to forbid all de facto single people from adopting children of the opposite sex who are less than 40 years younger as part of the efforts to prevent sexual abuse.

Experts hailed the latest review of the draft civil code as necessary but added that insufficient government oversight lies at the root of the problem.

During the bimonthly session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee last week, Shen Chunyao, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee of the NPC?the top legislature?reported to the Standing Committee that de facto singles, described as married people whose spouses are either missing or lack the ability to consent to civil acts, should be disallowed from adopting children who are not sufficiently younger than the person seeking adoption.

At the session, the draft civil code was submitted to the Standing Committee of the NPC for a second review.

Shen said the age gap rule only applies to single adopters in the current marriage section of the civil code and added that the revision is aimed at "protecting adoptees' legal interests".