Only 46 such children were adopted in 2017-2018

Only 46 such children were adopted in 2017-2018 | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Adoptions by foreign applicants rise by 50%

For every Indian parent who adopts a differently-abled child there are at least seven foreigners who adopt such children from India after they fail to find a family in the country.

The latest data shared by the apex body for adoption in the country — Child Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) — reveals that domestic adoptions of children with special needs has fallen with every passing year. At the same time, foreigners adopting children with a physical deformity or an ailment rose by 50% last year alone.

NEW DELHI: Terming human trafficking as "the greatest human tragedy", Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra today said that the menace was on the rise and people involved in it considered human beings as commodity.

Justice Misra, addressing an 'International Conference on Human Trafficking' here, said the younger generation has to be the torchbearers against human trafficking.

"Human trafficking is the greatest human tragedy that has fallen upon us. It has to be avoided and the younger generation has to be the torchbearers against it. Human trafficking is a great menace to the present and the future generation," he said.

He said slavery was the human trafficking of the past and it exists even today in a different manner.

"Slavery is human trafficking of the past which existed and exist in a different way today. The people who are involved in human trafficking, think that human beings are commodities. I would like to say the commoditisation of human beings has become an industry in itself. It's a different kind of syndicate," the CJI said.

The Maharashtra Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MCPCR) has recommended strict implementation of the guidelines prescribed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for those who want to have a child through surrogacy until the bill on surrogacy laws was passed by Parliament.

The recommendation came as part of an order while hearing the complaint of a 43-year-old woman, who was abandoned by her husband after he had a male child through surrogacy, without his wife's consent. In a 17-page order, the commission asked the State to set up a task force to monitor the implementation of guidelines and to tighten the supervision of hospitals facilitating delivery of children through surrogacy.

Advocate Anjali Pawar, from the Pune-based NGO Against Child Trafficking, said that commercial surrogacy itself should be banned as surrogate mothers are used as money minting machines. "There is so much emphasis on norms for organ donation. But when a woman's womb is being sold, who takes responsibility for what she undergoes?" said Pawar.

She emphasised that ICMR guidelines are not followed. "So many couples raise specific requests — the number of children they want, gender, etc. There is no regulation whatsoever," she said.

The MCPCR has also asked people, including actors, desiring a child through surrogacy, surrogate mothers and egg/sperm donors to register themselves with clinics or hospitals.

New Delhi, March 31

A girl, Matinda Gustafson, who was adopted at the age of seven from an orphanage in Delhi by a Swedish couple, has returned to India after 16 years to search for her real parents.

The Swedish couple that adopted Gustafson, instead of giving love and affection, tortured her due to which she started living in a foster home in Sweden.

Gustafson has faded memories of her orphanage days. Her warden had informed her about her adoption. She was happy when she was adopted assuming of going to have her own family.

Her foster parents used to send gifts to her initially but they changed soon after taking her to Sweden.

"We do not have to run around to help missing persons. What anyone can do is, if you come across any missing person, is to contact the nearest police station and a hospital, if required. For seniors who are suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's, they always have an identification card with them. Also, they make it a habit to keep a mobile with them with numbers that can be contacted when required by someone who is helping them," says Prabhat Kumar, Special IG of Police for Law & Order in Maharashtra. He was speaking at the tenth session under the "Police & You" series.

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"We do not have to run around to help missing persons. What anyone can do is, if you come across any missing person, is to contact the nearest police station and a hospital, if required. For seniors who are suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's, they always have an identification card with them. Also, they make it a habit to keep a mobile with them with numbers that can be contacted when required by someone who is helping them," says Prabhat Kumar, Special IG of Police for Law & Order in Maharashtra. He was speaking at the tenth session under the "Police & You" series.

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Poland has decided to restrict international adoptions . Thus , Poland sadly starts to be the second European country to close the international adoptions, after Romania , which made this choice in 2005. A decision that was mitigated here since 2013, after the entry into force of Law 233 / 2011: international adoptions have been partially reopened, only for Romanian couples living abroad or where at least one of the spouses is a citizen of Romania.

The decision taken by the Polish authorities arouses a bitter taste , writes AiBi and opens a great question on the rule of law of the "new Europe" and on the community strategies for child protection. The Cai communiqué states that "the Government of the Republic of Poland has decided to restrict international adoptions, giving priority to national adoptions in the conviction of finding available adoptive families in Poland or a family substitute environment" but, comments Marco Griffini, president of AiBi, "amazes that only now the Polish authorities raise the issue of the priority of national adoptions compared to international ones,as if until now the adoptable minors on the international adoption channel had not been reported for a defined period of time in the waiting list for national adoption. Hard to believe it. Rather, it seems to us that this "exit" of the Polish Government is wholly specious and in reality hides another ".

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In recent months, the Polish Central Authority has refused consent for adoption for minors for which the Warsaw Catholic Adoption Center had given a favorable opinion. These minors will no longer be adoptable, says the government to the CAI, also communicating a restriction of international adoptions

Poland restricts international adoptions, favoring national adoptions, in the belief that it is possible to find adoptive families or a family substitute environment in Poland. This is the response that the Ministry of the Family and Labor and Social Policies of Poland sent to the International Adoptions Committee, which had asked for explanations about the numerous denials received in recent months by some adopting families routed in Poland. The families had received an opinion favorable to the combination with Polish minors by the Catholic Adoption Center in Warsaw but later, after several months of waiting, the Ministry as the Polish Central Authority had not consented to the continuation of the adopted procedure.Cai communicates this on its website. For all minors for whom the Ministry of Family and Labor and Social Policies has in recent months refused consent, there will also be the revocation of international adoption.