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==2018: 1/3 children left there by single parents==
[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F01%2F21&entity=Ar00516&sk=4EA0350D&mode=text Ambika Pandit, 1 in 3 kids at shelter homes left there by single parents, January 21, 2019: ''The Times of India'']

''Forced To Live Apart, They Hope To Be Reunited''

Of the over 3.7 lakh children lodged in homes meant for care of children in vulnerable circumstances across India in 2016-17, over 1.2 lakh were the offspring of single parents. That’s more than double that of orphan, abandoned and surrendered children.

According to data collected from some 9,600 childcare institutions and homes between January 2016 and March 2017, single parents often send their children to care homes to ensure their safety and well-being. In such cases, the child remains in touch with the parent and may later be reunited.

Of 3.7 lakh children in need of care and protection, 5,900 children in the age group of 0-6 years were orphans, abandoned and surrendered. There were 50,267 orphan, abandoned and surrendered children aged 7-18.

States with the highest number of children with single parents living in homes are Tamil Nadu (31,098), Maharashtra (21,260), Andhra Pradesh (10,113), Karnataka (10,080) and Kerala (10,782). There are 65,962 boys and 54,096 girls in this category.

'''Shelter homes: AP, Kerala, TN have highest no. of girls'''

There were 60 children in the transgender category. While Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu had the highest number of girls, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra had the highest number of boys in this category staying in homes. The study busts the notion that children’s homes run by the government and NGOs are spaces for those normally referred to as runaway, missing, abandoned, trafficked and orphaned. Explaining the presence of children of single parents in such large numbers, the report said such parents often send their kids to care homes to ensure safety and wellbeing of the child. In such cases, the child remains in touch with the parent and is eventually reunited based on an assessment of the situation by the child welfare committee authorised for the purpose under the Juvenile Justice Act.

“A non-conducive social environment or the inability to provide for basic needs forces parents to take this decision,” the report said.

Former chairperson of a child welfare committee (CWC) in Delhi and honorary secretary of NGO Shakti Shalini Dr Bharti Sharma said many of these single parents who come to the CWCs lack social support systems. It could be a woman caught in commercial sexual exploitation in a red light area seeking support for her child.

Speaking to TOI, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Priyank Kanoongo said, “Many of these children would not need to go to an institutional set-up if there were alternatives available in society. We are studying ways to execute foster care and sponsorship programmes.”

===‘1.8L living in childcare institutions as parents unfit to take care===
[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F01%2F22&entity=Ar01620&sk=64C7FBCD&mode=text January 22, 2019: ''The Times of India'']

An analysis of data from over 9,500 children homes from across India reveals there is a significantly large number of children housed in them whose parents or guardian have been declared ‘unfit or incapacitated to take care’ of the kids by the child welfare committee.

There are 5,291 children in the age group of 0-6 years and 1,78,885 in the age group of 7-18 years in CCIs/Homes who fall in the category where their guardians are unfit to take care of them. The number of boys was 17.2 % more than girls. “Amongst these, the child care institutions in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have maximum number of such children,” the report noted. At the time of the mapping exercise in 2016-17 there were 3.77 lakh children lodged across homes. The analysis steered by a committee set-up by the ministry of women and child development has been put out in the public domain on the WCD ministry’s website.

=See also=
[[Children’s issues: India]]

[[Single mothers: India]]

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 [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=10_06_2022_016_018_cap_TOI  AmitAnand Choudhary, June 10, 2022: ''The Times of India'']
 New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said paternal grandparents should be preferred while granting custody of a minor child after the demise of his/ her parents as they can take care of the kid better than other relatives who also may have sought custody.
  Avacation bench of Justices M R Shah and Aniruddha Bose said grandparents are emotionally more attached to grandchildren than their own children and can take better care of the child despite old age. The court quashed the Gujarat high court’s order granting the custody of a fiveyear-old boy to his maternal aunt, while turning down the plea of his grandparents for custody. The child had lost his parents in the second wave of the Covid pandemic.
  The HC had passed the order in the favour of the maternal aunt on the assumption that she was better suited to take care of the child because of the old age of grandparents, who were 71 and 63 years old, and she had a better source of income and also because she was living in a joint family.
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 “Income and/or the age and/or the bigger family cannot be the sole criteria to tilt the balance and not to give the custody of the grandson to the paternal grandparents. At the cost of repetition, it is observed that neither the high court has observed anything against the grandparents that they have not taken proper care of the minor grandson during interim custody or they acted detrimental to the interest of the minor,” the bench said.
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	When contacted, CARA CEO Deepak Kumar told TOI that there were homes that were severely lacking in medical facilities and this needs urgent attention of the states. “The district magistrate along with the Child Welfare Committees and the district child protection units have the biggest role to monitor the functioning of SSAs. Inspections show that monitoring is lacking and SAAs are not putting necessary funds into medical care,” Kumar said.		When contacted, CARA CEO Deepak Kumar told TOI that there were homes that were severely lacking in medical facilities and this needs urgent attention of the states. “The district magistrate along with the Child Welfare Committees and the district child protection units have the biggest role to monitor the functioning of SSAs. Inspections show that monitoring is lacking and SAAs are not putting necessary funds into medical care,” Kumar said.
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		+	==SC: Paternal grandparents 1st choice for orphans’ custody==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=10_06_2022_016_018_cap_TOI AmitAnand Choudhary, June 10, 2022: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said paternal grandparents should be preferred while granting custody of a minor child after the demise of his/ her parents as they can take care of the kid better than other relatives who also may have sought custody.
		+	Avacation bench of Justices M R Shah and Aniruddha Bose said grandparents are emotionally more attached to grandchildren than their own children and can take better care of the child despite old age. The court quashed the Gujarat high court’s order granting the custody of a fiveyear-old boy to his maternal aunt, while turning down the plea of his grandparents for custody. The child had lost his parents in the second wave of the Covid pandemic.
		+	The HC had passed the order in the favour of the maternal aunt on the assumption that she was better suited to take care of the child because of the old age of grandparents, who were 71 and 63 years old, and she had a better source of income and also because she was living in a joint family.
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		+	Disagreeing with the HC order, the apex court said that reasons/grounds given by the HC may be relevant but not germane and there cannot be any presumption that the maternal aunt being unmarried having an independent income; younger than the paternal grandparents and having a bigger family would take better care than the paternal grandparents.
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		+	“In our society still the paternal grandparents would always take better care of their grandson. One should not doubt the capacity and/or ability of the paternal grandparents to take care of their grandson. It is said that the grandparents love the interest rather than the principle. Emotionally also the grandparents will always take better care of their grandson,” the apex court said.
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		+	The court also noted that the grandparents were living in Ahmedabad where the child will get a better education while his aunt was living in Dahod, a tribal area. The SC also took into consideration that being a retired person, the paternal grandparents would devote more time and take care of the minor better than the aunt who is serving as a government employee.
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		+	“Income and/or the age and/or the bigger family cannot be the sole criteria to tilt the balance and not to give the custody of the grandson to the paternal grandparents. At the cost of repetition, it is observed that neither the high court has observed anything against the grandparents that they have not taken proper care of the minor grandson during interim custody or they acted detrimental to the interest of the minor,” the bench said.
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