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    Making fun of the praiseworthy act of adoption

    A newspaper article with the heading of HC junks 4-yr-old's adoption after parents complain of 'uncontrollable bad behaviour' drew my attention. After reading the full news gave me goosebumps. In Aug 2023, a couple adopted a four-year-old boy, but after a few months, the adoptive parents decided not to keep the child.

    The adoptive parents complain about the child's behavioural issues. Even medical tests reveal some health issues. Due to all such factors, the adoptive couple decided to return the child to the children's home, and a High Court judge passed an order in their favour by making the child 'free for adoption'. The counsellor mentioned that the adoptive parents had no bonding with the child, although the little one was fond of his adoptive parents and an adoptive elder sister.

    This news is so hurtful. If the child with the abovementioned issues had been their birth child, then would they have given his custody to someone else? How could the judge pass such a judgment of re-registering the child as free for adoption? Adoption is known to be a holy act, and returning the child after a few months of adoption signifies the sick mentality of the couple. If an ill fate strikes their daughter, then will they send her away from themselves? They made adoption a farce. Wishing to become parents by adoption is much easier than becoming one. What do you feel regarding such an unholy act?
  • #776785

    Points:4
    A thought provoking post by the author. This story is not only hurting us but shaking our sentiments badly. Returning an adopted child back to the orphanage is something unheard. What is the difference between our own child and an adopted child? If we feel that there is a difference then at the first place why we should adopt? The process of adoption comes with a great responsibility of taking care and bringing up of the child. It has to be necessarily done in the same way as one does with one's own child.
    I have seen in some families where child is adopted that no one can make out from outside that it is not their own child. They are keeping him or her with the same interest and affection as they might done with their own child. That should be the spirit behind any child adoption.
    Knowledge is power.

  • #776790

    Points:5
    This is really a shocking and hurtful news. This is the first time, I am hearing about such a painful situation. The child was adopted no doubt but he had the every right to avail the privilege of a normal child despite the fact that he did not belong to the family.
    In most of the cases, the adopted child is treated in the same way as other children in the family are treated. The adopted child feels very much secured once the legal process is completed.
    This seems to be an isolated case where the adopted child is back to orphanage. The mental shock by way of such a transition of the child would certainly affect the mental health beyond the repair. As stated by the author, the child had developed his passion for the adopted parent and his adopted sister. This incident would not allow him to recuperate from his ailing mental health.

  • #776800

    Points:5
    Very unfortunate. Why go for adoption when you are not able to bring up a child? We don't know how a child will behave as grows. It is the responsibility of the elders to see that the adopted child will behave perfectly. There are many ways to correct the erring child. One should follow and see that the child will become normal. If there are health problems we have to see that the child will get proper medication and become normal. Society is changing and morals and ethics are coming down. Once we adopt a child we should consider the child as our born child only.
    I will tell you about another incident where the son ditched the adopted mother. There was a rich family in a village. They have no children. They adopted a boy from their relative circle. After two years of adoption, the father died and the mother has taken all the pains to get that boy educated. After joining in a job, that boy ditched the mother and went away with his wife and she suffered a lot as there was nobody to take care of her during her old age.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #776803

    Points:4
    The author has very nicely raised an issue of unsuccessful adoption. From the point of view of the couple it was simply a process of bringing a child to house and then returning him after some time to the orphan house. But think of the child's point of view - how much sentimentally disturbed and shattered the child would be? Is it not an inhuman act? People are adopting even the stray puppies and keeping them in their house for good and what to say of adopting a human child.
    Court decision is based on logic and freedom for all but does court understand the feelings of such a child who is being tossed from orphan house to a foster shelter and back to orphanage?
    Thoughts exchanged is knowledge gained.


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