Growing Up Adopted in India – Mental Health and Well-Being

Oke, Meera; Mitra, Sahana; O’Brien, Valerie

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“…On the contrary, an Indian child adopted abroad has greater openness in talking about adoption with their foreign parents, visiting India, and possibly beginning a root search through a digital platform. Not all adopted individuals share the need to look deeply into their past, and some have no desire to search (Oke, Mitra and O’Brien, 2023). Moreover, root search may not lead to successful outcomes in India, as the stigma attached to unmarried birth mothers forces them to surrender their babies and keep their identity a secret.…”

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Mapping the digitalisation of child adoption in India: Challenges and future possibilities

Mitra,

Bhaskar,

Bode

2023

Adoption & Fostering

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Among several other countries, India has launched numerous digital initiative programmes aimed at integrating and upgrading various socioeconomic, political and health and social care arenas. One such area is child adoption, where a move away from the analogue system and towards digitalisation began in 2015. The Indian Ministry of Women & Child Development introduced the Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System (CARINGS), a digital adoption formalisation platform, under the Central Adoption Resource Authority, a nodal body that monitors and regulates both in-country and intercountry adoptions. This government initiative centralised adoption data from all over India, including the number of children declared free for adoption and the number of prospective parents registered and seeking to adopt. Against this context, this study aims to map the development of adoption in India through digital systems and the influence of digitilisation on those involved in the pre- and post-adoption phases. Drawing on both Western and Indian literature, as well as observations from an ongoing qualitative study on adoption digitalisation in India, this study discusses the benefits and limitations of digital systems for the people connected to them. The findings provide a comprehensive view of the interaction of technology and society and how this operates in the sociocultural context of adoption in India. Future implications for researchers and adoption social workers and consultants are discussed.

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Section: Challenges To the Digital Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%