INTER COUNTRY ADOPTION OF CHILD

INTERESTS OF INTER-COUNTRY ADOPTED CHILD...

The Indian Government existing guidelines on inter-country adoption more are more stringent and foolproof is welcomed. Mere guidelines may not help secure the adopted children’s interests better.

Trafficking in children is a illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labour, a modern day form of slavery and fastest growing criminal industry in the world and is tied with the illegal arms industry as the second largest after the drug trade. It often involves exploitation of the parent’s extreme poverty.

In fact, adoption is the creation of a new, permanent relationship between an adoptive parent and child. Once this happens, there is no legal difference between a child who is adopted and a child who is born into a family. It is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another who is not kin and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities from the original parent or parent. It is also considered a wonderful opportunity to give a child a home and parents a child.

Over the last decade, although the male child is still preferred, the number of families that have registered to adopt a baby girl has gone up. Birth parents have many different reasons for putting children up for adoption. Some decide that they want better lives for their kids than they feel they can provide. Some feel their child would do better living in another country. Sometimes parents just can't take good care of a child because of illness or other difficulties. Many birth parents say that having their child placed for adoption with another family is the most difficult thing in the world, but that sometimes it is truly in the child's best interests. At the same time, unless these mindset changes, the many children who have no say in their physical appearance will continue to languish in institutions, longing for a home and a loving family.

The new guidelines enacted by Parliament will definitely curb the mal-practices of increasing trafficking of children abroad besides fixing responsibility on Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA). Since every adoption is also different and emotional aspects are also involved, there is need to have environmental laws and counseling for parents before and after the adoption.