HC says preserve all adoption orders as it can’t find '97 do ..

HC says preserve all adoption orders as it can’t find '97 document

TNN | Jun 17, 2018, 05.14 AM IST

HC says preserve all adoption orders as it can’t find '97 document

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has directed its registry to maintain, in perpetuity, all court orders and records related to Indian or international adoptions. These are vital documents affecting the rights of adoptees, said Justice Gautam Patel.

German woman meets biological mother in Gumla after 27 years

K A Gupta | Dec 13, 2015, 10.55 PM IST

Gumla: In a fairytale of sorts, a 27-year-old Indian-born German woman travelled 7,000 km to the tribal heartland of Gumla to meet her biological mother after 27 years. It was an emotional reunion for Sarika Kratz - a psychology student living in Dusseldorf - and her mother as the two met privately at an undisclosed location on Sunday.

"I am very happy to meet my mother. She is very nice. I have been impressed by her," she told TOI. The meeting point of Kratz and her mother, a tribal woman now in her fifties, was kept under wraps respecting the latter's wish.

The mother, who had given up Kratz to the Missionaries of Charity 27 winters ago identified her lost child from the latter's photographs. "She must continue her study with zeal and not think about me only," the mother said.

Managements of the Child Care Institutions (CCIs) should reunite the children, who run away from homes for various reasons and missing kids, with their families and help to groom them as good citizens, said Joint Director, Juvenile Welfare Department B.D.V. Prasad Murthy.

Participating in the one-day capacity building programme on ‘Safe family re-integration of children in need of care and protection,’ Mr. Murthy said it was the right of the children to stay with their parents and other family members, and asked the CCIs to help in forming a healthy society.

The programme was organised by the Forum for Child Rights in association with Children’s Emergency Relief International (CERI), on Monday.

‘Spread awareness’

Director of Global Advocacy, CERI, Ian Anand asked the CCIs to restore the children to their families as early as possible as home is the right and safe place for every child. Child Welfare Committee (CWC) Krishna district chairperson B.V.S. Kumar stressed the need for greater awareness on child- related Acts and laws for CCIs.

Kisah Kiran Gustafsson, Perempuan yang Mencari Ibu Kandung Malah Menemukan Kembarannya

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Kiran Gustafsson dan saudara kembarnya.

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Translated from Dutch

Demonstration for subsidy of searches for biological parents

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Dozens of adoptees from, among others, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Colombia and India today demonstrate in The Hague for financial support in the search for their biological parents. Recently, it emerged that many children from these countries were illegally adopted in the 1970s and 80s and that the Dutch government was looking away.

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Picture for representational purpose only.Picture for representational purpose only.

INDORE: The woman and child welfare department will hold a fair on June 24 to help issuelesscouples, who want to adopt a child, and sensitise them about the adoption process.

In the fair, parents, who want to adopt child, will be told about how to make registration on Central Adoption Resource Authority (www.cara.nic.in) and upload documents including birth, age proof, marriage registration, residence proof and family photos to qualify for the adoption.

“Through the fair to be organised in Jawara Compound at Lions Club’s office, we will help issueless couples to follow due process further to adopt an orphan or abandoned or surrendered child,” divisional joint director Rajesh Mehra told TOI.

as a child

Sunitha’s earliest photo at the Orphanage

I was born in a rural area of southern India at the beginning of 1979. I passed through a Catholic orphanage before reaching my adoptive home in Belgium, April 1981.

My adoptive parents already had two biological sons, aged 6 and 8. I grew up with the knowledge that my adoptive parents wanted a daughter. I learned later in life that they felt responsible for the death of their first son, who passed away from leukaemia. They wanted to provide a safe haven for a disadvantaged child. India came as a second choice because it was too complicated to adopt a Belgian child.

They had prepared two names for me. The feminine of the son they lost – Patricia and Angelique – like angel. Eventually, they kept my Indian name saying they liked it and it fitted well in Belgium.

Most Indian couples prefer child below age of 2 for adoption: Data

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The inter-country adoption showed an opposite trend where 389 children adopted out of 718 were over the age of two. (Representational Image)

The inter-country adoption showed an opposite trend where 389 children adopted out of 718 were over the age of two. (Representational Image)

Over 80 per cent of children adopted in the country in 2017-18 were below the age of two and there were not many kids of this age group legally free for adoption, according to official data.

In 2017-18, 2,537 children below the age of two were adopted while the number above two years was just 597 children, the data given by the Central Adoption Resource Authority, the apex adoption body in the country, reflected.

In the age bracket of 2-4 years, 228 children were adopted; in the 4-6 years group, 143 children were adopted and above the age of 6 years, 226 children were adopted.

Indian family at outdoor. Rear view of parents and children walking on garden path. Exploring nature, leisure lifestyle.

Indian family at outdoor. Rear view of parents and children walking on garden path. Exploring nature, leisure lifestyle.

‘Cohabitation not considered a stable family in India’

The nodal body for adoption in the country has barred partners in live-in relationships from adopting a child on the ground that cohabitation without marriage is not considered a stable family in India.

The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) permits a single woman to adopt a child of any gender, while single men can adopt only boys.