We are wanting to adopt my friends little boy who is around 3years old what is the process from india to germany.

Mac Rai, Soest, Germany

We are an Indan couple settled in the UK since 2003 and have a 4 year old daughter. We ar very keen to adopt an indian child, preferably a girl under the age of 1 year, My husband is going to India in June and would like to visit you if convenient. Any information sent beforehand would be helpful.

Sameen Uppal, Leicester, UK

My husband I thinking about adapting two children,
My husband is age of 65 very good health
Iam 53 year old and also good health.
Age wise we are not qualified to adapt children.

India is putting discrimnaiton on age . Put people like us very diffcult to adapt.

Usha
California

usha, Sacramento, usha

My wife and I are working towards adopting a baby from India. She is currently present in India for the last 5 months trying to adopt but with little sucess. This article gives us a lot of hope. All the agencies we visited told us there is 2 year or moer wait time for international adoption. If any one has any good information as presented in this article please post it here. Thanks in advance.

Kiran, Seal Beach CA, USA

I am very moved by this article. I was researching international adoptions and discovered this article. I would love to know how to apply for adopting one of the girls in need.

Sandra Heath, Clarksville , USA/ Tennessee

I am very touched by this article, my husband and I are looking to adopt a baby or child and would love to take any babies that are not wanted. I do have plenty of love and kindness to ofer. I pray for all of the babies and children and just pray that one day we may be so lucky to take on our new adopted child as our own, feel free to contact me if you know of anyone who needs their baby or child to be adopted, we would love to give it a wonderful home here, Lilly, Texas

Lilly, texas, texas

Surely to open up more orphanages for abandoned girls or 'offer' more for adoption abroad is completely side-stepping the issue. The Indian authorities are evading their own responsibilities. Indian society must chnage. Incentives must be given so that the law banning dowries is upheld. People killing femal foetuses and infants and carrying out illegal ultra sounds must be prosecuted rigorously. At the beginning of the 19th century in Britain, children were being hanged for relatively minor crimes, such as stealing. Society had to actively reform to stamp out such atrocities. Indian mothers should remember the old dictum: "A son is a son till he gets him a wife. A daughter's a daughter for all of her life."

Maggie, London, UK

How do we go about adopting a child from India?

Maria, Glasgow, Scotland

Its a Shame that people like to have their own genes move forward than to adopt the abandoned girls and leave them on the mercy of the god.

siri, NJ,

How do you adopt Indian children in the UK, though? I can't seem to find any links applicable to the UK, only to the US and Canada, any information would be greatly appreciated.

Angelika, Glasgow, SCOTLAND

Shame shame....anyone who can love a child should be able to adopt one that has been cast out by the society and their family ...how dare they exclude same sex couples who have the compassion and love to raise a child deemed unworthy and a burden?

It seems very sick that the people (country, laws, society) who would throw away their own offspring should have a say as to who is worthy to love and nuture what they can not.

It is time for the world to change.

Everyone has value.

zeno z zimmerman, San Francisco,

Sadly, there is not much that can be done. Sex selective abortions and sex determination testing (i.e. ultrasounds) have been illegal in India for over a decade. The decision to murder or abandon young girls has roots in cultural gender discrimation. Men earn far more than women, bringing more economic promise to their families; additionally, women become property of their husbands’ families, once they are married, so they no longer contribute, financially or otherwise, to their own immediate households. A more significant aspect of this arrangement, perhaps, is the fact that it is sons who continue the family lineage. I'd say that the obsession with carrying on the family line, and the focus on patrilineal decent, is much more a factor than financial arguments. Additionally, men are offered control, or imperative participation, in religious roles and ceremonies. For example, in the Hindu culture, only a son can light his parents' pyre (assuring their passage to the afterlife).

Rachael, Schenectady, NY

I am strongly in favour of inter-country adoption and any humanitarian aid required but I think this is tackling the problem from the wrong angle. Surely there should be global condemnation for any country or culture that views females in this way. What is the UN doing to stop this?

Karen, Adelaide, South Australia

I've just read the above article on the need to adopt Indian girl babies/children. Can you tell me if any get adopted out to New Zealand

Heather, Invercargill, New Zealand

we would like to know the orphanages where L.K Mittal, chairman of the Indian government’s Central Adoption Resource Agency is involved

parchure, london, U.K

From Richmond, British Columbia (Canada) we are so eager to adopt a female child from India. We too are of Indian background. I am finding it absolutely impossible to overcome the barriers or limitations set by the Indian government. Advise as to how we can adopt a little girl.

Noreen Singh, Richmond , Canada

We would be very interested in the help offered by Innamburan from Chennai. Thanks in advance.

Andreas Gemmingen, Freiburg, Germany

Are there any other opportunities to help them other than adopting them-perhaps assisting with a trade a skil to leading to economical independence even if they are not adopted.

Ateeka, Annapolis, Maryland

on sunday the 8th april there was an article on adopting indian babies but no information on how to go about this. we are interested and wondering if you could give us some information on where to go to get started.

miss T.Pochkhanawala, Nottingham, U.K

Why can the combined ages of the parent not exceed 90? I can understand wanting adoptive parent to be under or over a certain age, but the calculation of under 90 combined seems so odd.

GMO, Los Angeles, USA

I don't know how Angelina saved so many girls in India?
Charlotte,Please explain.She was in India for shooting of her film ,not to save Indian girls!!!!!

A, Texax, USA

We have adopted a special needs child from China and are in process to adopt a special needs child from Guatemala. I absolutely love India (it would definitely have been my first choice had we qualified) but we are too old to qualify to adopt there. I am only 51 but my husband is 67. With our experience (4 grown bio children) and the full support of our grown children, it's too bad the rules prohibit consideration of older parents for these children, especially the special needs or older children!

Vernell, Small town, Nebraska USA

Information about the international adoption process may be found on the website www.internationadoptionguide.co.uk which has been set up by families who have successfully completed the adoption process.

CT, London,

I appreciate people like Angelina Jolie adopting children, the decrease in time is all due to her, thank you Angelina !

You have saved the lives of so many girls in India !

Charlotte, Sherwood, Arkansas

Having read the article about the orphans in India and having recently considerd fostering children my family and I are interested in adoption. If anyone has any information about how to go about it let me know.>

Sam Simpson, Hyde, Cheshire

I have traveled india and always wanted to adopt there. The corruption and time you must deal with in the past makes it so hard to adopt there. This is wonderful news!

kevin, missouri city, tx

I too fell in love with India, and have traveled there extensively. I've seen so many children "castoff" yet they also don't want to let them be adopted by Westerners. I am single and 47, for over 5 years I tried to adopt a little girl from India. The costs were huge, I am financially stable, but not rich, but with my own home and business.
When I contacted the adoption services of India, they let me know, that it was NOT desirable for a single woman of my age , and while I didn't want a baby, any girl from day 1 to 7 years was perfect, they thought MAYBE I would be able to adopt only from the severely disabled children available, with sadness, that's where we left it.
I think of those small little girls on the streets, unwanted with little of the childhood joys and lack of responsibilities all children should have, and it breaks my heart. I may not have the wealth and celebrity of Angelina Jolie or Madonna, but I had the love, the family, and the home for a normal happy life.

Leighann, Cambridge, USA, New York

My family would also like to adopt an Indian orphan and would welcome the support offered to Emma Kendrick by Innamburan. Could you also help us?

David and Lindsey Morton, London,

Thanx so much for this great news!!!!! Finally!!!!!
Being single and 38 I lost my heart to India and have always wanted to adopt two children from there, giving them a loving and careing home. If i had the chance to I would love to establish some SOS Childcare Home. Thanx again India for giving them kids a decent chance!!

Tina, Germany,

If India is really about to become the next economic super power perhaps it will begin to take responsibilirty for its own people and stop relying on western countries to sort out the mess.
India cannot have it both ways - it has to wake up to reality and create a modern society that is fairer to everybody; not just the wealthy people.

Pierre, Toronto, Canada

I think the UK should relax their adoption criteria as there are many children who stay with their paternal families and live a life of little family stability on benefits. People keen on adoption should be allowed to regardless of age and finanial constraint. Maybe the people apposed to adoption are racist and not thinking of the childs welfare. Terrible waste of human life.

VICKY, CHELTENHAM, UK

I don't know why my first comment didn't go through or why it wasn't published. Maybe this time.
I'm glad India realizes that a permanent loving family is the right of these children and is trying to provide that for them. It really shouldn't matter the citizenship of the parents nor in which country that family may live. The children need a permanent, stable family in which to grow up. How unlike Romania who, via draconian legislation which forbids international adoptions, abuses her children and denies them a forever family.

Peter, Timisoara, Romania

on sunday the 8th april there was an article on adopting indian babies but no information on how to go about this. we are interested and wondering if you could give us some information on where to go to get started.

Debra Omalley, stockport, england

An Indian settled in the UK and presently living in India, I shall be glad to assist Emma. She cam contact me through Sunday Times, with specifics and I shall do my best. I shall do everything in accordance with the highest ethical standards.

innamburan, Chennai, India

If India is "pleading" for people to adopt these children, maybe they should be a little less chosey about who adopts them.

I wouldn't qualify because I'm 25 (not 30 yet) and unmarried. So I guess a life of begging and prostitution is better for these kids then someone like me raising them.

Billard Phillmore, Grand Rapids, MI, USA / Michigan

my family and i read this article, and are considering adopting an india orphan, however, we do not know where we can achieve information on doing so. Could you help us?

emma kendrick, merseyside, england

Population control is a myth: a) it's impossible and b) even if it could be achieved, the smaller-populated country would be left languishing in poverty with no way up and out. India needs a population explosion so it has the same large supply of cheap expendable labour every single developed country has used to get their economies to where they are today. It may not be nice, but it's a fact that economic development has never been achieved without it.

Catriona, Glasgow,

I am an Indian,have one child.My request to related governments and UN to tell Indian government to take strong measures to contain population explosion.

kanu parmar, london/sydney, UK/australia

My wife and I are childless after having three children born premature and not living longer than a few hours each. This opportunity is wonderful for couples like us. Unwanted children are wanted by parents across the Western World. Thank you, Indian Parliment.

John, Small Town, USA/Indiana

What a wonderful plan for protecting the right of these children to a permanent family! What an important step in protecting them from the damage that comes from not growing up in a permanent family! I hope other countries which have restricted or eliminated international adoptions will reconsider and open them up again. Giving children the opportunity to grow up in a permanent, stable, loving family -- no mattter in which country that family may reside or what that family's citizenship might be -- is the thing that is truly in the best interests of the children.

Peter, Timisoara, Romania