Does India have a foster care system in place?

Foster Care in India is both a new and ancient concept. It is rapidly expanding in India due to a number of factors. read more

Between 2000 and 2014 many states wrote foster care rules or guidelines but systemic foster care did not take root for a number of reasons. First, India was rapidly moving from a joint family to a nuclear family system in many urban and semi-urban areas. read more

India began to create more program specific guidelines and rules and in 2015 the Ministry of Women and Child Development passed the 2015 MODEL Foster Care Guidelines, the first in the history of India. They legitimized and outlined the system of foster care in the first implementable attempt at the national level. read more

In India, it has been found that one of the reasons why families may prefer foster care instead of adoption is that they are not under an obligation to make the foster child a legal heir to the parents’ property. read more