File
India
childrens_living_arrangement
%
Country
NO SOURCE GIVEN
81.4%
Living with Both Parents
DHS 2019-2021
i
Children living with both parents, Total for children < 18; IA2020DHS: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai - 2019-21
15.4%
Living with One Parent
DHS 2019-2021
i
Children living with mother, father alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with mother, father dead, Total for children < 18; Children living with father, mother alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with father, mother dead, Total for children < 18; IA2020DHS: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai - 2019-21
3.2%
Living with Neither Parent
DHS 2019-2021
i
Children living with neither parent, both alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with neither parent, mother alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with neither parent, father alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with neither parent, both dead, Total for children < 18; IA2020DHS: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai - 2019-21
%
Effective
NO SOURCE GIVEN
children_living_without_bio
79%
Both Parents Alive
DHS 2015-2016
12%
One Parent Dead
DHS 2015-2016
9%
Both Parents Dead
DHS 2015-2016
95.3%
Children with Both Parents Alive
DHS
4.3%
Children with One Parent Alive
DHS
0.3%
Children with Both Parents Dead
DHS
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India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has circulated to the state governments, for the first time, guidelines on foster care following a national consultation on June 3 2015.
On Wednesday 20 May, 2015 three caretakers from an orphanage (Yathimkhana) run by a religious trust at Nettoor in India were apprehended and taken into custody by railway police at the Ernakulam Town Railway station for suspected attempted trafficking of 29 boys ages eight to 17, who said they were residents of the orphanage.
According to this article from the Times of India, the Supreme Court of India has expressed deep concern regarding the adoption of Indian children by foreign nationals as a means of child trafficking and exploitation.
This article, from the Australian Women’s Weekly, sheds light on the abuses of international surrogacy.
The Cabinet minister of women and child development (WCD) is dissatisfied with the progress made on the inquiry into the alleged child marriage racket being run at the Mahila Swikar Kendra orphanage in Baramati, India and has therefore ordered a high-level inquiry into these offenses, says the article.
This study was aimed at assessing growth and developmental outcomes of children living in orphanages in Odisha, India aged birth to 72 months and to make recommendations for “possible remedial measures” for addressing poor growth and developmental outcomes for children in institutions.
A Parliamentary panel in India has recently rejected a proposal for intercountry adoptions of orphaned children, according to the article.
The Indian government has launched Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the reunification and rehabilitation of children separated from their families at 20 big railway stations in the country, according to the article.
A recent police investigation in Baramati, India has revealed that a local girls’ orphanage has been running a child marriage racket, according to this article from Pune Mirror.
30 children from West Bengal, India were recently “rescued” by police during a child labour raid in the Old City. The children are now being lodged at a rescue home “with little hope of returning to their native place” as they await a First Information Report (FIR) to be issued, according to the article.