Children are considered as the future of a country. In India, children are next to god, and are pampered and taken care in the same way but another reality of the country is, around 60,000 children are abandoned every year. And often these abandoned children are pushed in the dark pit of violence and harassment,…
Adoption is the social, emotional and legal process in which children is not raised by their own parents but become a full and legal member of another family. Adoption touches lives of many people in different ways depending upon their role. Legal adoption permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities to the adoptive parents. This new…
Background:The Supreme Court consented to intervene when the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) raised concerns about a rash of allegations regarding unlawful adoptions of COVID orphans by private individuals and organisations. Issue:NCPCR statistics show that 3,621 children were orphaned, 26,176 children lost either parent and 274 children were abandoned between April…
INTRODUCTION Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is a legislative body of Government of India’s Ministry of Women & Child Development. It serves as the nodal body for Indian children’s adoption and is authorized to track and control inland and inter-country adoptions. In compliance with the terms of the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption, 1993, ratified…
Child custody and guardianship are legal terms which are sometimes used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent’s duty to care for the child.[1] The religion-based distinction of the personal laws…
Through ABC v. The State (NCT of Delhi), the Hon’ble Supreme Court came to the rescue of unmarried mothers. In the progressive judgment, the court stated that an unwed mother was allowed to apply for sole guardianship of her child without having to send ‘the mandatory notice’ to the uninvolved father. Moreover, she may not…
ALL IT NEED IS A KIND HEART Adoption has consistently been a consecrated demonstration performed by the humans. According to the Merriam-Webster legal dictionary reference legal adoption means “to take voluntarily as one’s own child especially in compliance with formal legal procedures”. Adoption can be legal as well as illegal. Under Indian law adoption…
Intercountry adoption The act of inter-country adoption came about to a great extent as a sympathetic reaction to the situation of war vagrants and the neglected offspring of servicemen in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Today, the fundamental getting nations are the United States, Canada, and the created nations of…
A son in the Hindu family was considered important because it was presumed that a son in the family would complete religious obligations such as pind daan and continued the legacy of the ancestors. Hence the concept of adoption was devised. Earlier a daughter was not adopted. It may safely be concluded that the validity…
Impacts of adoption Adoption will totally change the life of a kid from multiple points of view. He turns into an aspect of another family and will have rights in the property too. Section 12 of the demonstration states: At the point when a child has been received, They will be considered as the offspring…
