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. 57 58 Regulation 10, 11, 16 of Adoption Regulations, 2022 Regulation 20 of Adoption Regulations, 2022 89