Adopted from India when she was six and raised in Spain, the author takes a heart-wrenching trip back to India as an adult to uncover her roots and discover a sister she never knew.

This book researches child adoption in India and challenges prevalent theories of adoption. It is the only book of its kind to lend a voice to adopted children and shares the narratives of many families in their experiences of adoption. It also recounts the personal story of the author as an adoptive parent. The first part of the book deals with the macro issues of child adoption, while the second provides a micro-level analysis of individual families. The socio-political and socio-cultural contexts within which adoptions occur are also analyzed.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the complex landscape surrounding international adoptions within the Indian context. Embark on a journey through the corridors of legislation, regulations, and policies governing inter-country adoption in India. This handbook serves as an indispensable resource, providing legal professionals, adoption agencies, policymakers, and concerned individuals with a thorough understanding of the nuanced and ever-evolving framework. This is not just a legal manual; it's a guide for ethical, informed decision-making. With navigational aids, practical guides, and procedural outlines, the handbook ensures that readers can traverse the adoption process with confidence and clarity. This handbook is your indispensable companion. Illuminate the path forward, informed by a profound understanding of the laws and policies that shape inter-country adoption in India.

Latika Bourke was adopted from India, aged eight months. Growing up in Bathurst, New South Wales she felt a deep connection to her Australian home and her Australian family. It wasn't until she heard her name uttered in the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire that Latika recognised she knew nothing of her Indian roots, the world she was born into and what she could have become had she not been brought to Australia as a baby. As Latika carved out a successful career for herself as an award-winning political journalist, she became more and more curious about her heritage and what it meant to be born in India and raised in Australia. And so began a deeply personal and sometimes confronting journey back to her birthplace to unravel the mysteries of her heritage. From India with Love is a beautiful story of finding your place in the world and finding peace with the path that led you there.

Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells th

1.1 An Introduction to IS‘‘adoption’’ The term "IS ‘adoption’’" has been used by the researcher because, in international law, all countries are referred to as "States." International context of ‘adoption’’, also known as IS‘‘ adoption’’, is a subject of private international law that involves four parties: (i) the kid who is the subject of IS‘‘adoption’’, (ii) the person who took the kid in ‘‘adoption’’, (iii) both of whom are from a different country, (iv) the giving state who provides their kids for ‘‘adoption’’, and the receiving state. In such set of circumstances, a person makes final decision to adopt a kid. In this IS ‘adoption’’ procedure, the interests of the kid take precedence above all other considerations. However, we cannot ignore the national interest.

This work provides a deeper understanding of how the adoption process works and supports children with the feelings they have about adoption. Mental health interventions provided.

Adoption and surrogate pregnancy are the two most realistic options currently available for millions of couples unable to have biological children. In the past decade, international adoption has become popular among those who wish to avoid the wait associated with adopting domestically. Yet because of unique political, economic, and cultural circumstances within individual countries, international adoption is fraught with legal controversies and difficulties. Surrogate pregnancy is a relatively new and inherently complicated alternative. With few regulations to guide the process and protect those involved, however, countries struggle to address its ethical and moral questions, in addition to the legal, political, cultural, and environmental ramifications. Providing a historic overview and defining the key issues, Adoption and Surrogate Pregnancy examines the laws related to adoption and surrogate pregnancy in five countries: the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom, and Guatemala. The discussion covers the ways in which adoption and surrogate pregnancy overlap and influence each other, the nuances that further complicate matters, and the controversies surrounding both issues—such as fears of exploitation, class discrimination, socially "unwanted" children, same-sex parenthood, and the difficulties of governing the family unit. Allowing students to compare the subjects from the perspectives of different countries and cultures, this balanced and objective volume sheds light on the way these issues affect the global community.

Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of abortion. But as award-winning journalist Joyce makes clear, adoption has lately become entangled in the conservative Christian agenda.