Couple adopting girl child commended by Bombay HC

In what can be termed as an exemplary move, a Mumbai based couple has set an example by adopting a seven month old girl child despite their own progeny. The couple already has a 14 year old daughter. Justice Girish Kulkarni of Bombay High Court appreciated this ‘approach’ of the couple, saying it should set as an example for the society. “This is the approach which needs to be cultivated in a society which is mostly said to be dominated by patriarchy”, he said.

Justice Kulkarni said that the positive approach of the adoptive parents is laudable. He appreciated the fact that despite having a biological girl child, they decided to adopt another girl child. He further added that the adoptive parents were quite determined right from the beginning to have another child in adoption and had accordingly visited several adoption homes and had studied on their future plans to take another child in adoption.

The High Court said, “They have been celebrating birthday of their biological daughter and other family celebrations in different adoption homes, which clearly indicate their thinking on such children, culminating into a desire to have a child in adoption.”