Children in waiting

Children with disabilities and special needs seldom find families in India who adopt them. Within India, only 47 such children were adopted in 2017-18. It a very small number for such a big country, where we have around 25,000 parents waiting for more than 2 years to adopt a child under 2 years of age. Even children with correctable conditions are often ignored in the system. Kalpana Jayashanker and her husband had adopted their daughter when she was 3 years old. Soon after adopting her, they realised that she was vision impaired. We spoke to Kalpana to understand how she navigated through the adoption and special needs landscape. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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Children in waiting is an episode from Dear Pari by Suno India.

This episode is 23:15 long.

This episode was published on Sep 26, 2019.

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