Uniform code needed for Adoption Laws in India


Posted On : November 11, 2019
Uniform code needed for Adoption Laws in India
This blog is about biased adoption laws favoring boys over girls and biological children over adopted ones. The Hindu religion purports that adopted children are illegitimate and only the biological offspring legitimate. Hence the need for an uniform code.
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If one is compassionate enough to adopt a child one must be fearless. In other words, fear of adoption cannot be a hindrance to actually going ahead and adopting a child.


The Hindu religion believes that a biological offspring alone is the legitimate natural child and the second child is the adopted child which is deemed wrong. Besides, the myth that prevails in society is that people are inclined to believe that a boy is preferred more than a girl.


CHANGES OF ADOPTION IN 19TH CENTURY


In the 1950s, there were agencies easing the adoption process as at the time child adoption was a long drawn and arduous process taking anywhere between 3 and 5 years. Children were discriminated against because of the color of their skin. Subsequently, all of these things altered as many white parents began adopting black kids and gradually the adoption process accelerated.


CHILD ADOPTION LAWS IN INDIA


Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 is for Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist communities and parents of these communities are eligible for legal adoption of a child with sweeping rights granted to the children to inherit the property. The one and the only drawback is that the sex of an adopted child cannot be the same as that of the biological child.


There have been tremendous improvements in the adoption laws but lack of uniform code has resulted in many childless couples not being able to adopt a child. If these couples were to be permitted to adopt a child then it's unimaginable the number of children that would have a window to a better life including a bright future without any gender bias in the adoption of a child. Parenthood is essentially about love, not so much about DNA.


Call 7604047601 for a consultation with registered expert adoption lawyers on Vidhikarya.



Written By:
Avik  Chakravorty

Avik Chakravorty


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