Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Risks of Umbrellaing

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A recent court decision illustrates how an agency in an umbrella relationship with other agencies is able to successfully contractually wash...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

When the Bough Breaks -- Criticisms of Tamil Nadu's Baby Cradle Scheme

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A Cradle Baby Scheme was established by the Tamil Nadu, India state government in 1992 as a means to combat the problem of female infanticid...
Monday, February 04, 2008

Book Review: Once a Mother: Relinquishment and adoption from the perspective of unmarried mothers in South India by Pien Bos

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Pien Bos is an education specialist and anthropologist who worked in the adoption field before becoming a researcher in 2001. Once a Mother ...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

India's Rules on Adoption Fees and Donations

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A rule is only as good as it is enforced. What good is an adoption rule that is intended to curb child trafficking when that rule is not fol...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Update in an Indian Adoption Scandal -- Kidnap and Adoption

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In 2005 another horrid adoption scandal broke in India. In May 2005, the Central Crime Branch of the Chennai police arrested several people ...
Friday, September 14, 2007

India: Baby Farming for Domestic Adoption Using Young Household Servants

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An investigative team from CNN-IBN in Delhi, India has uncovered a trafficking scheme in which impoverished rural village girls, many of the...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Petition for Adoptee Rights

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As follow-up to the earlier post on adoptee rights in India, here is a message from Arun Dohle, adult Indian adoptee: Please sign the comme...
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Saturday, August 04, 2007

Adoptee Rights Considered by India

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The governing administrative authority for India adoption is the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA). CARA is considering guidelines ...
Sunday, July 01, 2007

India: Lost Children and Adoptable "Orphans"

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We take certain things for granted in the developed world. One of these is the speedy return to their parents (by the government) of acciden...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

India: Obstetrician and Social Worker Charged in Scheme of Selling Newborns for Adoption

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An apparent scheme for illegally selling newborn babies to agencies and families for the purpose of adoption was recently uncovered in the c...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

India: Kidnappers Arrested in Adoption Racket

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Police in Hyderabad, India have uncovered what appears to be a kidnapping for domestic adoption scheme. It began on Saturday when a woman w...
Friday, March 02, 2007

News: Mother Finds Son After 25 Years

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Twenty-five years ago, Mary, a 55 year old Indian-born nurse who now lives in Great Britain, was married and living in Chennai, India. In 19...