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My niece and her family are in the process of adopting a little girl from India. As a result of this case, the Indian gov. is requiring psychological evaluations of the family.
My niece and her family are in the process of adopting a little girl from India. As a result of this case, the Indian gov. is requiring psychological evaluations of the family.
This is kind of a bizarre turn of events. In Mumbai, children run feral with adults actively preying on them. It hardly seems like they should take the case of one single adoptive family's behavior to decide to make it difficult to rescue deserving children.
I don't think there is another civilized country - up and coming as India is, for the upper castes - who treat the orphaned children with such callous disregard.
I wonder if it's related to the adoptable children having health issues? I THOUGHT (but I wouldn't swear) that my niece said that the adoptable Indian children have health issues.
In other words, if you want to adopt a child from India, that child will have some kind of health concern. In my niece's baby's case (they already know who the baby is), the baby has the gene for Sickle Cell anemia, although she doesn't have sickle cell anemia itself, and may never develop it.
I wonder if it's related to the adoptable children having health issues? I THOUGHT (but I wouldn't swear) that my niece said that the adoptable Indian children have health issues.
In other words, if you want to adopt a child from India, that child will have some kind of health concern. In my niece's baby's case (they already know who the baby is), the baby has the gene for Sickle Cell anemia, although she doesn't have sickle cell anemia itself, and may never develop it.
Sickle cell trait is not the same as sickle cell anemia. You need 2 copies of the gene to develop sickle cell anemia AFAIK.
Sickle cell trait is not the same as sickle cell anemia. You need 2 copies of the gene to develop sickle cell anemia AFAIK.
Thanks for clearing that up. I was afraid I'd probably mess up the details. At any rate, the way I understood it, she COULD develop sickle cell anemia...but she might not.
Thanks for clearing that up. I was afraid I'd probably mess up the details. At any rate, the way I understood it, she COULD develop sickle cell anemia...but she might not.
This is kind of a bizarre turn of events. In Mumbai, children run feral with adults actively preying on them. It hardly seems like they should take the case of one single adoptive family's behavior to decide to make it difficult to rescue deserving children.
I don't think there is another civilized country - up and coming as India is, for the upper castes - who treat the orphaned children with such callous disregard.
I have so much I want to say about how some countries treat their orphans but then turn around to make it difficult to impossible to adopt these unwanted children. But I think it might end up going off topic and starting a *thing*.
So I will just say I agree with where you are coming from.
My niece and her family are in the process of adopting a little girl from India. As a result of this case, the Indian gov. is requiring psychological evaluations of the family.
I don't have a problem with requiring psychological evaluations of families who adopt. I wonder why this wasn't a requirement before? The children have to be the priority and should not be put in an unsafe situation.
I don't have a problem with requiring psychological evaluations of families who adopt. I wonder why this wasn't a requirement before? The children have to be the priority and should not be put in an unsafe situation.
In our adoptions we had to fill out extensive forms for the social worker as part of the home study process, as well as being interviewed. I think it would be the same for all home study processes (we didn't have any "special" homestudy, its just what they did). I think adding another layer is mostly just adding paper work, cost and more time the child has to live in limbo. I guess I would be curious what, if any, extra protections it would really add. It seems like a knee jerk reaction without any evidence that it would keep children safer. But if it did keep kids safer, I am all for it.
Although murder is probably rare, there are likely many adopted children who wind up in abusive homes but it's hard to know the real numbers. A lot of abuse is never reported.
I'm guessing the Mathews couple did not have a psychological evaluation.
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