Adopted Child, Deported Adult. Wazulu’s Story
Wazulu was born in India and adopted as a child. He was taken to the USA at the age of 12 to live with American parents and for the next twenty years he studied and lived as an American. A brilliant musician, Wazulu was gaining recognition as a performer and producer of an original style of Indian influenced Hip Hop …
India suspends U.S. adoption agency
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi took the decision to suspend Holt International, the authorized foreign adoption agency. The Centre has suspended an American adoption agency for “negligence” in its assessment of adoptive parents of three-year-old India-born Sherin Mathews who died in the U.S., government sources said. Sherin Mathews, who was adopted by an Indian-American couple in 2016, died …
What happens to Indian children after they are given up for adoption to overseas adopters?
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 …
Death of toddler adopted from India prompts calls to end intercountry adoptions — Reuters
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 …
