Digitalisation Of Child Adoption In India: The Legal Problems And Possibilities
- IJLLR Journal
- Mar 11
- 2 min read
U. Saranya, Government Law College, Vellore
Dr. Ramakant Agarwal, Nims University Rajasthan, Jaipur
INTRODUCTION
In India, adopting a child has long been complicated, time-consuming, and fraught with bureaucratic red tape. As a result, both potential parents and the waiting children frequently experience mental distress. India, a nation with millions of abandoned and orphaned children, must expedite the adoption procedure to guarantee that these kids find loving, safe homes. Acknowledging these obstacles, the government has made great progress in digitizing the adoption framework with the goal of establishing a system that is more accountable, transparent, and efficient. Despite its enormous potential, digitalization is not without its difficulties. Concerns about accessibility, data privacy, technology inequalities, and systemic inefficiencies still impede the smooth adoption process that is intended. Furthermore, there are questions regarding whether a fully digitalized strategy is sufficient to manage such a delicate procedure because the psychological and emotional components of adoption frequently conflict with the impersonal nature of digital technologies.
BRIEF HISTORY OF ADOPTION IN INDIA
Adoption means a legal process that allows someone to become the parent of a child, even though the parent and child are not related by blood. But in every other way, adoptive parents are the child's parents.1 Child adoption is a noble procedure that establishes familial bonds between a child and prospective adopters.
In earlier times, adoption was typically driven by the desire to carry on family traditions and perform ancestral ceremonies, with an apparent preference for male offspring. Families without male heirs adopted within their familial groups because of this preference, which was firmly rooted in the idea that a son was necessary for carrying out final rituals and guaranteeing salvation. Property and family heritage were preserved within the extended family through these intra-familial adoptions.
