Adoption is creation of a parent child relationship between persons who are so related by birth. As a socio-legal process, adoption confers the same mutual rights and obligations that exist between natural parents and the child. For the orphan and abandoned children, who are deprived of growing in family settings, it confers the most important avenue for their care, protection and upbringing. The child gets identity of his/her adoptive parents in the society. There are many institutionalized children waiting for families and so also many childless parents in need of children. So adoption process brings them together.
Adoption under HinduLaw:
Adoption refers transplantation of a male child from the family in which he is born to another family where he is given by the natural parents by way of gift. The adopted male child is then taken as being born in the new family and acquires rights duties and…
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