Legal approval of adoptions by family courts is deemed necessary for adopted children to have property rights in their foster homes.

INDIA Updated: Mar 15, 2017 18:42 IST

Reena Sopam

Reena Sopam

Hindustan Times, Patna

PATNA: Two girl children of Bihar have been adopted by a woman each from Spain and New Zealand.

The girls from Bhagalpur had been abandoned by their biological parents. Living under the care of Bihar State Adoption Resource Agency (SARA) of the state social welfare department, they were brought to Patna and handed over to their adopted mothers on Thursday.

Sources said four-year-old Preeti, who had been with the SARA for the past two years, was adopted by Spain's Susana Gomez who works with the agriculture department in her country.

Clinical psychologist Melanie Kathleen Mary Simons from New Zealand adopted seven-year-old Minu Bharti, who had been with the SARA since 2012. Simons adopted another Indian child from Delhi's state adoptive agency three years ago.

"Although the adoption process took over a year to be completed, the agencies were cooperative. I chose India as it allows single parents to adopt children," Simons told this reporter.

NEW DELHI: In a significant development that will play a decisive role in the adoption of siblings, soon the consent of a child above five years of age in the adoption pool of the Child Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) could be sought before separating him or her from the sibling to enable adoption. This will be a break from the current position wherein siblings are adopted together by a prospective parent.

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In the cramped Anamnagar office of an adoption broker and his dusty orphanage in Ratopul, Nepali Times this week made arrangements to buy a child for adoption.

We posed as a British couple wishing to adopt a Nepali child and were told that the process was complicated and involved eight government offices and agencies. The broker said he could take care of the entire process for a $1,500 fee. If we decided to adopt from his orphanage, a further donation of $5,000 was strongly suggested.

Although he initially insisted on up-front cash of a third of his fee, he agreed to take a cheque for just over half the total amount. Immediately after we agreed to pay, he said he had just met a family from his village who wanted to put up for adoption a child the age we wanted. Earlier, he had said it could take months to find a child as young as we were looking to adopt.

Then came the promises of guaranteed approval because he had his representative on the adoption recommendation committee and that while he could not jump the queue he could use his influence.

We met the parents. They hardly looked unable to support four children as is required by law. The father said he was a political worker-turned-teacher and earned 72 pounds. He spoke fluently in English about choosing a bright future for his youngest child because love is not enough, enumerated the child's many good qualities, and used phrases like transparency, unfair practices and legal relationship. There was one condition, he said, his wife wanted to periodically meet the child. They were evasive about where they would like the meetings to be.

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VADODARA: The 18-month-old baby girl, who was found abandoned outside a temple in Atladara, is still waiting for her biological parents. But several couples have come forward since Sunday to adopt her.

She was given the new name by authorities at child care home in Nizampura, who call her Priyanshi.

Police sources said that many couples contacted Manjalpur police station on Sunday as well as Monday. Besides contacting the cops, the child care home was also contacted on Monday for adoption details of the girl. However, their requests were turned down since the Juvenile Justice (care and protection) Act does not allow adoption as of now.

Sources at the child care home said that according to the law, nobody can adopt the girl until 90 days are over. "The police may be able to find her parents or probably her parents may come forward within that period so until then she will stay at child care home," said the source.

Member of Parliament Ranjan Bhatt also visited Priyanshi at the child care home on Monday morning and gave her some toys.

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Six persons including a Siddha doctor, were arrested for allegedly selling a newborn baby girl for Rs 1.80 lakh to a 'childless couple' in Tamil Nadu's Meensuruti.

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A young couple decided to sell their third child due to poverty and approached their relative for giving away the child for adoption, police said.

The relative, in turn, approached a siddha doctor who identified a "childless couple" in Coimbatore district and struck a deal to sell the infant for Rs 1.80 lakh.

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