Child Adoption in India-An Emerging Issue

Adoption had hitherto been considered as a contested terrain in India. As an issue, there often exists some amountof hesitation in people’s imagination for open deliberation. In other words, in social parlance, the approach toadoption in India has never been uniform everywhere: there are temporal and spatial variations. Presence of legalframework notwithstanding, the act of adoption is looked upon with grace at one place and disgrace at anotherplace. Often, the way one relates to the act is replete with prejudice, superstitions and a priori notions. That rendersthe exercise contentious to comprehend the politics and polemics of child adoption. The present paper represents amodest endeavour to have a concise understanding of the issue at a conceptual level.