Posted on 04/08/2007 2:40:30 PM PDT by blam
India urges Britain to adopt its orphans
NEW DELHI, April 8 (UPI) -- India is struggling with a surplus of abandoned and unwanted children and is urging people in Britain and other Western countries to adopt its orphans.
The Sunday Times of London says India is renewing its efforts to save its children from a life of poverty and deprivation by finding homes for them in Europe and the United States.
India is estimated to have more than 11 million abandoned children, and the Times reported that the number of newborn babies abandoned at adoption facilities is continuing to rise. Many of the babies are born to poor, young mothers who are unable to raise them. The vast majority of these children face a future of prostitution, menial labor or simply begging on the streets if families are not found for them, the report said.
The Times reported that last year, only 4,000 abandoned children in India escaped this bleak fate. Now, the Indian government has brought about a change in policy, increasing the number of children available for adoption and making the adoption procedure quicker and easier for families who seek to adopt
This is the same India that was spitting on adoptive parents a few years ago in airports. Hey, take care of your own, you have our jobs, take care of your own babies.
We have plenty of babies here that need to be taken care of. There is NO infant adoption shortage!
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Nope. Let them keep theirs.
Huh?
Why Britain and not the U.S.? People are ALWAYS looking for babies to adopt here.
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Where is this true?
We have plenty of babies here that need to be taken care of. There is NO infant adoption shortage!
Paging Brangolina...a new addtion awaits.
All over the United States.
There are plenty of babies to adopt in the US. Adoption agencies like overseas babies becasue they are less costly to the agency than a local baby.
Never having attempted to adopt a baby, I have no knowledge in this area.
But your claim seems to contradict what I have heard - waiting lists, etc.
I know some Indian-Americans who adopted a set of twins from India because they were unable to have their own. They learned about the twins at 5 or 6 months of age—but didn’t get custody of them until they were nearly 2!! due to all the bureaucracy and paperwork and hoops they had to go through—and they were Indian!
My husband is from India, and I would love to adopt a baby from there, but the restrictions because of me (not Indian) were huge when I checked into them. Maybe now there will be an easier way to adopt—I’m going to check it out. Since I can’t have any more children and my daughter wants to be a big sister, this may be God’s way of opening a window for us!
There are effectively zero American-born infants who are free for no-strings-attached adoption. Depending upon the circumstances, the natural parents have between months and years to revoke, or attempt to revoke the adoption, and there is a lifetime risk (or promise, as you may see it) of contact between natural parents and adoptive family.
But your claim seems to contradict what I have heard - waiting lists, etc.
I have adopted four middle class infants, all healthy and all less than two weeks old. I never had to wait more than 9 months. I often had a choice of more than one baby. My children are beautiful, intellegent, healthy and talented.
The “babies are rare” is bogus and made up.
As an adopted kid myself, I say, well done, you!
There are effectively zero American-born infants who are free for no-strings-attached adoption. Depending upon the circumstances, the natural parents have between months and years to revoke, or attempt to revoke the adoption, and there is a lifetime risk (or promise, as you may see it) of contact between natural parents and adoptive family.
You have no idea of what you are talking about. My four infants were adopted legally free at two weeks of age each, and there is no lifetime risk of adoption loss. Once the child is LEGALLY FREE there is no going back. You, the adoptive parent decide whether you want birthmother in your life. We chose not to.
All the Lifetime dramas you have seen about adoption disruption and use as your information pool were caused by cocky attornies who promised adoptive parents that they could ignore VALID claims and continue to adopt the infant who was not LEGALLY FREE.
As an adopted kid myself, I say, well done, you!
I have been most fortunate and blessed.
Am I missing anyone? Please do not include that diseased freak, Angie Jolie, serial child collector in anything relating to child adoption.
India is estimated to have more than 11 million abandoned children, and the Times reported that the number of newborn babies abandoned at adoption facilities is continuing to rise.
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Good grief! Here’s a better idea. How about encouraging your people to have more respect for life? Do not beget children you cannot or will not take care of.
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