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Single parent adoption in India: Mental health and legal perspectives and the way forward
R Ranjan1, S Nath2, S Jha1, VL Narasimha2
1 Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India
2 Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India
Correspondence Address:
S Nath,
Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, Jharkhand
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/jpgm.jpgm_718_22 PMID: 37357486
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Single parent adoption (SPA) is a relatively new construct worldwide and in India. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, has laid down criteria for adoption in general and SPA in particular, in conjunction with the Juvenile Justice Act (Care and Protection of Children), 2015. There is scant literature on this topic of SPA, more so in India, that looks into the various psychological nuances of SPA from a mental health professional's (MHP) perspective. This review paper aims to assess SPA from the perspective of a MHP that will focus on its various legal nuances as well as the psychological connotations attached to it. For this, a search strategy was employed that included a thorough literature search from two databases (PubMed and Google Scholar) with relevant keywords related to the topic. The various legal issues pertaining to SPA in the current scenario, the psychological issues and challenges faced by single parents, the behavioral outcomes of adoptees who are adopted by single parents, and ways to deal with the various obstacles of SPA are discussed.
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