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A 45-year-old man was found dead in a goshitel (cheap one-bedroom intended for students to live in to focus solely on studying). The man was sent to Norway at the age 8 for adoption. Four years ago in 2013, the man with Norweigan citizenship returned to his motherland to find his biological parents. Unfortunately, he was found dead in a …
A mother who is a monk must borrow money. The lender tells her of a Christian home that would provide and train her two children for nothing. So the mother can work more to pay back the loan faster. But her children will not see her again for many years. They have been sold to an adoption agency, to America. …
Megha Varier, The NEWS Minute Saraswati was an infant when she was abandoned by her parents in Gaya district in Bihar. She was taken in by an NGO based out of Nalanda. When she was two-and-half years old, a Kerala couple Wesley Mathews and Sini Mathews, adopted her in July 2016. Saraswati became Sherin and started living with the couple …
Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The death in Texas of a three-year-old girl adopted from India a year ago has prompted renewed calls for an end to international adoptions, which campaigners say put vulnerable children at risk of abuse. The girl’s adoptive father, Wesley Mathews, was charged on Monday with injury to a child, a first-degree felony that …
What happens to Indian children after they are given up for adoption to NRI/ overseas parents? Saraswati was an infant when she was abandoned by her parents in Gaya district in Bihar. She was taken in by an NGO based out of Nalanda. When she was two-and-half years old, a Kerala couple Wesley Mathews and Sini Mathews, adopted her in …
