The Diet on Friday passed a revision to increase the upper age limit at which a child can be adopted under a special system that allows ties to their biological parents to be severed.

Formerly, children’s ties to their biological parents could only be cut before the age of 6, but under the revised law children 14 and younger are now eligible.

The special adoption program is aimed at providing a stable, nurturing environment for children who cannot be raised by their biological parents because of economic difficulties or a history of abuse in the home.

Unlike regular adoptions where legal connections with biological parents are retained, the special program allows the children to be legally registered to their adoptive parents, with the previous ties erased.

Sushmita Sen opened up about how daughters Renee and Alisah reacted, when she told them that they were adopted.

Smt. Rega Geetarani Pattanik welcomed the dignitaries, resource persons and the participants to the training programme. In her welcome address she emphasised on effective implementation of adoption programme, monitoring, legal provisions and post adoption follow up of

Towards a reform of the French adoption system

The government wants to reform the French system of adoption, which allows only 1,400 children per year to find a family. 
Two parliamentarians are due to report in early September.

Each year, only 1,400 adoptions are carried out in France while 14,000 families have an approval. 
The proceedings concerning foreign minors - 615 in 2018 - are five times fewer than ten years ago, because of the application of 
the Hague Convention, which promotes the maintenance of children in their country.

French:

Le gouvernement veut réformer le système français de l'adoption, qui ne  permet qu'à 1.400 enfants par an de trouver une famille. 
Deux parlementaires doivent rendre un rapport début septembre.

Chaque année, 1.400 adoptions seulement sont réalisées en France alors  que 14.000 familles disposent d'un agrément. 
Les procédures concernant  des mineurs étrangers – 615 en 2018 – sont cinq fois moins nombreuses 
qu'il y a dix ans, du fait de l'application de la convention de La Haye,  qui ­favorise le maintien des enfants dans leur pays.

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The Supreme Court has granted a further period of three months to the CBI to complete its investigation in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case.

The vacation bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice MR Shah took note of interim status report filed by the CBI in this case.

The bench also directed the investigating agency to conduct investigation on following aspects of the case

(i) the offences alleged under Section 377 IPC.

(ii) the offences under the IT Act regarding video recording of the sexual exploitation of the inmates of the shelter homes,

Tragic stories: many abuses concerning adoption in Haïti

They are heartbreaking stories: parents in Haiti who, under false pretenses, temporarily surrendered their child to the nuns but never saw them again.

They had no idea that their child would be given up for adoption and disappeared abroad. Nieuwsuur made a report.

No real orphans in the orphanages

There has been much wrong with the adoption industry in the poorest country in the western hemisphere, as it has been shown for some time. Birth certificates are often forged and in the 750 orphanages about 80 percent of the children are not orphans at all. Money is the reason for the enormous amount of orphanages. Annually, about one hundred million dollars go to these orphanages. Big business so.