Indian diplomatic missions abroad will now be in charge of safeguarding adopted children whose parents move overseas with the child within two years of adoption. The Centre on August 23 has notified new rules in this regard. So far, the Indian missions abroad had a role in inter-country adoption of Indian children limited to children adopted by Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) or foreign parents.

The Missions had a duty to ensure protection against neglect, maltreatment, exploitation or abuse of these children. But a grey area got left out in case of Indian children adopted by parents in India, but who ended up moving abroad later, hence going out of the purview of Indian authorities and also not falling under purview of Indian Missions abroad. Some such cases came to the attention of the authorities recently.

The Centre has now notified new regulations, the Adoption (First Amendment) Regulations, 2021, which come into force immediately. Under the new rules, it has been specified that if the adoptive parents move with the child to some other country within two years of adoption, it shall be the responsibility of the Indian Mission of the country to which the child has moved, to perform all the assigned duties under the Adoption Regulations, 2017 in respect of the adopted child.

Not just this, the adoptive parents will also have to intimate the Indian diplomatic missions concerned in the country of departure and arrival, at least two weeks in advance through a written communication with their full contact details at the new place and thereafter, as per the new rules.

The new amendments have been made by the Central Adoption Resource Authority and have been notified on August 23 by the Woman and Child Development Ministry.

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A 1978 law tried to remedy adoption practices created to forcibly assimilate Native children. Now conservative lawyers are arguing that the law constitutes ‘reverse racism’

Members of the Mosakahiken Cree Nation hug in front of a makeshift memorial at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School to honor the 215 children whose remains have been discovered buried near the facility, in British Columbia.

Members of the Mosakahiken Cree Nation hug in front of a makeshift memorial at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School to honor the 215 children whose remains have been discovered buried near the facility, in British Columbia. Photograph: Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images

Mon 23 Aug 2021 11.23 BST

George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry was infamous during the 19th-century Indian wars for riding into the enemy camp, holding Native women, children and elders hostage at gunpoint, and forcing the surrender of the tribe. He systematically attacked and captured civilians to crush Indigenous resistance, which is partly how he defeated the Cheyenne at the Battle of Washita River in 1868. Cheyenne, Lakota and Arapaho warriors later killed Custer as he fled after trying the same hostage-taking ploy at the Battle of Greasy Grass in 1876.

Beneficial, benevolent and progressive as the amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act may seem to be, they are myopic and do not seem to be in tandem with parallel family law legislations

Both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have approved the 2021 amendments to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (JJ Act), which allows district magistrates to issue adoption orders instead of civil courts. Amending provisions of the JJ Act to recognise executive magistrates as a competent authority authorised to issue adoption orders will allow speedier adoption of children.

Beneficial, benevolent and progressive as the proposals may be, they are myopic and do not seem to be in tandem with parallel family law legislations. The cited reasonings — delay in civil courts and adoption processes being non-contested litigations — ignore the “interest and welfare of child” principle. The purpose defeats the ends. Further, it may create statutory conflicts with contradictory and inconsistent interpretations in issues relating to marriage, adoption and guardianship. The wholesome solution then may be to not amend the act or incorporate similar amendments in other existing laws.

Adoption of children under the JJ Act, which is outside the scope of the provisions of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 (HAMA), is guided by Sections 56 and 57 of the JJ Act, wherein irrespective of religion, orphan, abandoned and surrendered children can be made wards of single or divorced persons as per procedure laid down under the Adoption Regulations, 2017. The process entails a robust and protective mechanism routed through the Central Adoption Resource Authority (Cara). Ultimately, under the JJ Act, all Cara approved adoptions require an adoption order from a court, which under the JJ Act “means a civil court, which has jurisdiction in matters of adoption and guardianship, and may include the district court, family court and city civil courts.” Section 61 of the JJ Act mandates that before issuing an adoption order approved by Cara, the court shall satisfy that the adoption is for the welfare of the child, as per the wishes of the child and without consideration, payment or reward for the adoption.

Interpretation of “court”

This is the 12th article in an adoption series. So far, this series has covered the right to origin of adoptees from Korea. The second phase of the series will discuss the historical development of the politics surrounding inter-country adoption with an aim to move beyond those sad stories of the past often depicted in the media. Instead, the next set of articles will illustrate how the system of inter-country adoption that led to such stories remains to this day and continues to govern the politics of adoption.

By Lee Kyung-eun

History is the sum of the choices that we, as a nation, have made thus far.

This graph shows the number of children who were born in this country but left shortly after birth (more than 90 percent were under the age of one) to become the sons and daughters of families in Western countries. Each dot on the graph represents human beings cast out of the protection of this nation.

While more than 80 countries throughout the world have sent their children overseas for adoption, Korea's experience remains noteworthy. It began as the birthplace of inter-country "orphan" adoption in 1953 and has persisted in engaging in the practice. This nearly seven-decade-long history of exporting children is not found anywhere else in the world and has led people both inside and outside the country to ask, "Why can't this country stop this practice despite its economic achievements and progress?"

Guys they are, but nice guys. They want to crown their years of love with a child, a baby of their own. But how do you get a baby as a gay couple? Adoption is the only option.

Because they absolutely want a baby of their own, an older child is not adopted and they have to look for a surrogate mother. He will, inseminated with the semen of one of the two, give birth to a child and give it to them after birth. The search for a suitable surrogate mother begins.

Co-aging with your best friend. Sounds like a dream scenario, it is, but actor Rick Paul van Mulligen (38) and his husband René (33), fathers of two children, sometimes run into the law as a modern family. Read it on Kek Mama .

They do not like a Dutch surrogate mother. Friends of those who have chosen this path had to deal with a surrogate mother after the birth of their child, who started to act very difficult. A surrogate mother from an Asian country is also not an option. It is true that you can find one relatively cheaply and easily in countries such as Thailand or Vietnam, but the young and poor women who act as surrogate mothers are often exploited. They don't want to cooperate.

On their quest they end up in the United States. There, surrogacy is well regulated by law and, as far as is known, there is no exploitation of women. A surrogacy followed by an adoption will be very expensive in the US, but because both men have a good salary, they can afford it.

Gandhinagar( Kottayam): Fate and fortune intertwined to bind the couple Thomas and Neena with

four little girl children. In 2019, Puthuppally natives P A Thomas and Neena planned for a Mumbai

trip. But they could not get train tickets. Hence they booked tickets to Pune station and decided to

board a train to Mumbai from there. At the station, their eyes focussed on four little sisters sitting in

a corner of the station. Thomas went near them and tried to talk with them and identified that their

Abandoned in a center in Cluj, Alex Kuch had the chance to be adopted by a family from Germany. He moved to New Zealand, where he graduated from university, and has now returned to Germany.

Before he was adopted, Alex used to sway back and forth, due to a lack of affection and stimulation, things he did not receive in the orphanage.

At the first psychological evaluation after he was adopted and taken to Germany, a psychologist told his parents that Alex would not be able to lead a normal life, he would barely finish high school, and the university, no way.

In short, the psychologist said that Alex will not be able to have what society considers a normal life. "Well, it seems the psychologist was right. Indeed, Alex has not led a normal life so far ... Alex was adopted from an orphanage in Cluj-Napoca, in 1997, by a family from Germany. In the 24 years since his adoption, Alex has traveled the world. In 2006, his parents moved to New Zealand and since then, every year they have spent their holidays in the most attractive places in the world ", said Azota Popescu, president of the Catharsis Association, who invited him many times in Romania.

Graduate in New Zealand

Shortage of foster families for siblings who want to stay together

There are too few foster families in Flanders that are willing or able to care for children who are closely related. That is what Foster Care Flanders says. In April, a bill was approved in our country, allowing, for example, brothers or sisters to stay together after the divorce of their parents. But it appears that childcare with a foster family is more difficult to organize for children who want to stay together.

Joppe Matyn

Fri 20 Aug 07:16

Pleegzorg Vlaanderen does not have figures about the shortage of foster families who want to take in children who are each other's brother or sister. "But we do see, for example, that in the province of Limburg there are currently six files where no shelter can be found for children who want to stay together," says Jan Brocatus of Pleegzorg Vlaanderen in "The morning" on Radio 1. "And we can. state that the situation is similar in every province.

In this summer column, six people tell us which summer will be etched in their memory forever. This week: Leena de Wilde (33) was seven months old when she flew from her native India to her adoptive family in Groningen. Twenty years later, she visited the children's home where she lived for the first few months for the first time. "If my disability had been discovered then, I would never have been adopted."

You might already know Leena de Wilde (33). At the age of nineteen she took part in the Mis(s) Election, an initiative of former presenter and CDA MP Lucille Werner, for women with a physical disability. Since then, Leena has made her job of posing for the camera and moving from casting to casting. As a result, she regularly appears in commercials, videos and campaigns.

"I want to make a positive contribution to the image of people with disabilities. I've had a wheelchair since I was three, so I've been sitting all my life. I don't know any better. I don't experience many disadvantages, I want to show that " says Leena cheerfully.

When Leena was eighteen months old and had been living with her adoptive parents in Groningen for a little over a year, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy (a posture and movement disorder caused by damage to the brain, ed.). This limitation would be a result of oxygen deficiency at birth.

"I was born on the street in Mumbai, India. As far as I know, my biological mother took me to Bal Anand orphanage shortly after I was born, because she was unmarried and did not have the financial means to take care of me. My parents never I put a lot of emphasis on my physical disability and in my upbringing always looked at what is possible. I took that positive attitude from them."