ADOPTION LAWS: CHALLENGES CONCERNING PROCEDURE FROM HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE
Institutions.57 It should be the other way round, the child should be counselled, keeping in
view his age, for his preference to go with the adoptive parents. To make the CARA guidelines
more effective, continuous interactive sessions must be held with the children to prepare
them for adoption with the perspective parents. The digitalisation has made the adoption
process mechanical and there is now less emotional act in this process as the child can be
adopted under the CARA guidelines by showing photographs to the perspective adoptive
parents and online meetings. It is suggested that there must be enough physical meetings of
adoptive parents with the child to make the emotional connect between them.
For inter-country adoptions, the post adoption follow-ups58 of the child must be made more
effective so that the child could be well adjusted in the family and the main objective of the
adoption guidelines that the welfare of the child is of paramount interest must be taken in
letter and spirit.
In the end, it is submitted that adoption started among Hindus, for spiritual and property
benefits but, essentially, it was based upon the privacy, emotions and relationship of both
parties: those who give a child in adoption and those who take him/her in adoption. It is
the essence of the time that to stop the exploitation of the system, which was misused for
trafficking of children, mainly girls, in the name of adoption in the inter-country and incountry adoptions. Therefore, CARA guidelines become essential, but it still has to be based
upon the emotional act of all parents, who give the child in adoption and the adoptive parents.
In that matter, the main concern must be child-centric and children must be prepared that
they are going into the family for their well-being.
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Regulation 10, 11, 16 of Adoption Regulations, 2022
Regulation 20 of Adoption Regulations, 2022
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