Earlier this year, social workers in Karnataka noticed an unusual spike in incidents of families returning children to state adoption agencies. They filed an RTI.

New Delhi: India’s Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is facing a crisis — there’s been an unprecedented rise in adoptive parents returning children soon after adoption, or ‘disruption’, as it is called.

Earlier this year, social workers in the field of adoption in Karnataka noticed an unusual spike in incidents of families returning children to state adoption agencies, and filed an RTI on it. In August, the RTI response from CARA confirmed their observations — of the 6,650 children adopted by Indian families between 2017-19, 4 per cent or 278 were returned.

While there was speculation that most children who were returned were specially-abled and the families failed to adjust with them, it was mostly older children, above 6 years of age, who were returned, according to CARA’s member secretary and CEO Deepak Kumar.

“Of the 3,200 children adopted by Indian families in one year, hardly 50 are those with special needs. For inter-country adoptions — 400 of the 700 adopted are specially-abled. It’s the older children who comprise a majority of children returned,” Kumar told ThePrint.

MUMBAI: Every year, roughly 207 newly born children are abandoned (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/abandoned) in

nullahs or cribs outside children’s homes across Maharashtra (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/maharashtra).

The National Crime Records Bureau (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Crime-Records-Bureau) (NCRB

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/NCRB))’s latest report shows Maharashtra led other states in the number of

abandoned newborns (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/newborns) between 2011 and 2017. Maharashtra reported

A notorious South Korean facility that kidnapped, abused and enslaved children and the disabled for a generation was also shipping children overseas for adoption, part of a massive profit-seeking enterprise that thrived by exploiting those trapped within its walls, The Associated Press has found.

The AP, which previously exposed a government cover-up at Brothers Home and a far greater level of abuse than earlier known, has now found that the facility was part of an orphanage pipeline feeding the demand of private adoption agencies.

Relying on government documents obtained from officials, lawmakers or from freedom of information requests, the AP uncovered direct evidence that 19 children were adopted out of Brothers and sent abroad, as well as indirect evidence showing at least 51 more such adoptions. The adoptions AP found took place between 1979 and 1986.

Choi Seung-woo, a victim of Brothers Home, speaks during an interview in front of National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

There were probably many more adoptions over the three decades that Brothers, the largest facility of its kind in the nation, was in operation, but the full extent will likely never be known.

The authorities have uncovered a multimillion dollar international ring in which hundreds of poor Andean children were kidnapped or bought from their mothers and sold under forged birth certificates and adoption papers to childless couples from the United States and Europe.

A Bogota lawyer has been jailed on charges involving the smuggling abroad of 500 to 600 youngsters from Colombia and possibly 100 more from Peru. In neighboring Ecuador, officials have turned up more than a hundred questionable adoptions by Italian families.

The Colombian network is said to have included three juvenile court judges, six notaries, nurses in two maternity clinics, officials of the Government's family welfare agency, several secretaries and housewives and a Colombian consul in Spain. Among those charged in Peru is an official of the Government unit that handles international earthquake aid. The principal figure arrested so far in the Ecuadorian cases is the president of the national children's court.

Lies and Kidnappings

Some babies were obtained through nurses who told mothers that their offspring had been born dead and passed the infants along to the lawyer. Others were simply kidnapped or bought from impoverished peasant women. At times members of the organization were sent out to patrol the city's red-light district to find pregnant prostitutes and persuade them to sell their babies.

MUMBAI: The fees that prospective parents pay to adopt a child is not subject to Goods and Services Tax, the Maharashtra

bench of the Authority for Advance Rulings has said.

AAR gave the ruling after agreeing with the argument of a recognised adoption agency from Nerul that children are not

“goods” and the agency does not provide any “services” to the prospective parents.

Indian couples (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-couples) interested in adopting a child must pay a fee of Rs

"There are a number of different schemes by which adoptions are being fraudulently induced in Northwest Arkansas"

by: Lauren Krakau

Posted: Oct 3, 2019 / 10:59 PM CDT / Updated: Oct 3, 2019 / 10:59 PM CDT

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ROGERS, Ark. (KFTA) — Following yet another report of fraudulent adoptions in Northwest Arkansas, a local attorney is doing everything he can to put a stop to the crime.

Court comes down heavily on WCD over adoption exercise Usha Rani Das29 Sep 2019 10:53 PM New Delhi: A Delhi court came down heavily on the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) for making adoptive parents travel from distant places to the national capital to complete the adoption exercise. Compelling proposed adoptive parents to travel to Delhi from distant places "militates" against the basic philosophy that it is the duty of the state to ensure every parentless child gets parent, the court said. District Judge Girish Kathpalia directed the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) to submit an action taken report on whether petitions for adoption can be filed in the court within whose territorial jurisdiction the adoptive parents and the child, who is in foster care, reside so that they did not have to travel to Delhi. Also Read - SC says large number of cases filed before it due to 'insufficient or wrong sentencing' The court, in its order, noted that there were cases where the child was physically challenged or the adoptive parent was a single mother but they had to travel to the national capital from distant places to testify. The court directed the director of CARA to submit the report within a month and put the matter for further hearing on October 10. It also said that previously CARA opted not to assist the court despite the seriousness of the issue and hence asked the secretary of the Ministry of Women and Child development to take necessary actions. Also Read - Naga talks continue for second day The court, however, took note of the fact that it would be financially onerous on the adoption agencies to file petitions in the court within the territorial jurisdiction concerned. "Under the pretext that proceeding with adoption matters in the courts within whose territorial jurisdiction proposed adoptive parents reside would be expensive for adoption agencies, the basic philosophy underlying the concept of adoption under the Act (to provide parent to every parentless child) cannot be abrogated. "But the court has to adopt a positivist approach of law and has to ensure strict adherence to the laid down law.... At the same time, I also find it opportune to express disappointment that despite such seriousness of the issue, CARA opted not to respond and assist this court," the judge said. The court said that since the regulations have been framed and can be amended only by CARA (unless suitable amendments in the enactment are contemplated by the legislature), it was necessary that the issue be brought to the notice of higher authorities. "Situations were found where the proposed adoptive parents and the child under pre -adoption foster care, who are residing in far away places, have to come to Delhi to testify in order to obtain adoption orders, and in some such cases the proposed adoptive child is even physically challenged and the proposed adoptive parent is a single mother.... "There are number of cases where the child concerned is a special needs child (who was given in pre adoption foster care), is made to travel from far away places of country to Delhi (or whichever place where the adoption petitions are filed) because the proposed adoptive parents at the nascent stage of emotional bonding with the child do not want to leave the child alone at home and travel to Delhi. "There are also cases where single women opt to come forward for adoption but have to travel from far away distant places," it said. Adoption Regulations, 2017, provided that the Specialized Adoption Agency shall file an application for adoption order in the court having jurisdiction over the place where it was located, said the court. "Hence, the crux of the legal position is that an application for the adoption order has to be filed only in that court within whose territorial jurisdiction the adoption agency was located. "The compulsion for the proposed adoptive parents to travel to Delhi from far away places militates against the basic philosophy that it is the duty of the State to ensure that every parentless child gets parent," it said. As it is the duty of the State "to ensure that every orphaned and/or abandoned and/or surrendered child must get a family", it is the State which has to ensure, irrespective of financial considerations, that people are encouraged to take a child in adoption. It added the court has to adopt a positivist approach of law and has to ensure strict adherence to the laid down law. PTI

The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) also ordered Saintala police to inquire into the matter and submit a report.

BALANGIR: The newborn baby girl, who was rescued after being allegedly sold in Phapsi area of Titlagarh, was sent to the specialised adoption agency on Monday.

The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) also ordered Saintala police to inquire into the matter and submit a report.One Sarojini Mahakud of Balangir town had delivered the baby girl in Balangir and went to Phapsi to hand over infant to an unknown person. However, on a tip off, Saintala police and Childline officials rushed to the village and rescued the infant before producing her before the CWC.

In her defense, Sarojini said she wanted to hand over her baby daughter to one of her relatives due to her poor economic condition. “I have no family member and a home. My husband, who hails from Delhi, is not staying with me. I am too poor to take care of the baby,” she said. CWC chairperson J Mohanty said the baby has been sent to the adoption agency and the related formalities will start soon.

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She is now called Shanti Van Genechten, but almost 36 years ago she was born as Yamini in an orphanage in Mumbai. Her biological mother was barely 16. Today Shanti is the director of Kinderwens vzw, an organization that supports prospective parents with an unfulfilled wish for children and loss.

Shanti wrote down her life story in the book "Children's Desire, From Vulnerability to Strength." In this she supports all prospective parents and tells frankly about her own adoption. She is no longer a prospective parent herself, she has four children and lives in Molenstede near Diest.

Barely 36 years old and already an autobiography. Most people write that at the end of their life.

“The reason is my 35th year in Belgium. I have said so many times: I could write a book about my life because I have already experienced a few things. That started with my birth. Most people are born into a family, but my birth was a secret birth in an orphanage in Mumbai, then Bombay. My biological mother gave me breastfeeding for six months and then left without ever hearing anything from her. On my first birthday, I was lucky enough to be adopted by Flemish prospective parents. "

How did you find out your mother's story?

CHENNAI: Prospective parents could soon be able to adopt children through a mobile application after submitting all the

required documents. The ministry of women and child development (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/ministry-ofwomen-and-child-development) has asked all state resource agencies for suggestions to help launch a parent-friendly app

“The added advantage of a mobile app is that registration process and uploading of documents can be done on the go, from

wherever they are,” said a senior official from the department of social welfare.

Currently, the registration and process for adoption (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/adoption) are online through the