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Written by Rajiv Singh
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By Rajeev Singh, ET Bureau,
As usual, the doctor appeared quite confident of his success. And why wouldn’t he? One of the perks that came with a professional life that boasted of successfully handling thousands of such ‘critical’ cases over the last 10 years or more was confidence.
Only the place and predicament were different this time. Standing firmly in the witness box, he was used to the public gaze that never unnerved him. But there was somebody sitting in the front row of the room, constantly staring at the him; quite discomforting for him.
Finally, the judge delivers the verdict. The doctor has lost the case. Standing stunned for a few minutes, he suddenly turns into a picture of contrast.
Confidence gave way to anxiety; hands, which were always firm in wielding the scalpel, started trembling; eyes, which had never exhibited emotions, became moist. He collapses and breaks down in tears.
The ‘somebody’ sitting in the front row seat was his daughter. Dr Anand Parekh had not met Shruti for a year, and had been fighting for her custody since last six years.
Now, he has lost all—his daughter as well as interest in life. While the world will celebrate Father’s Day this Sunday, for many like Dr Parekh it will be a day to mourn. “What’s the point in being a father when you are deprived of your child,” said a devastated Dr Parekh. “Just because I didn’t give birth to her, doesn’t mean I can’t bring her up properly. A father can also be a mother.”
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Written by IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that a US-born child and his Indian mother be sent back to New York, from where she had brought the child following a legal row over his custody with her divorced husband.
Ordering the deportation of both the mother and the child to the US within a fortnight, a bench of Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice GS Singhvi said the New York family court will take a call on the child's custody.
The bench also asked the child's father to foot the bill for travel of the mother-child duo to New York.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested the child's mother, Vijayashree Voora, from Chennai Oct 25 following an apex court order Aug 25. The bench had ordered the CBI to intervene after the police of various states failed to trace the minor child, as his mother was consistently on the move from one state to another to dodge the police, for the past two years.
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Written by Herald Reporter
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PANJIM, MAY 18: This Christmas, 10-year-old Rico will have lunch with his mother and dinner with his father. But the lunch arrangement on Christmas day will be altered every subsequent year.
On his mother’s birthday, he will be with her and on his father’s birthday, he’ll stay with his father.
Likewise, his birthday will be celebrated alternately by the mother and the father every alternate year.
On school days he will be with his mother from Monday to Friday and be with his father every alternate weekend.
The programme for Ryan has been chalked out by the Bombay High Court at Goa while settling the issue of his custody between warring parents.
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Written by Jan Blackstone-Ford and Sharyl Jupe
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Q: My ex-husband says that our 7-year-old daughter talks about me too much when she is with him and his girlfriend, and it makes them uncomfortable. She talks about them a lot when she is with me also, but I think that is normal and it does not bother me. They plan on talking to her about not talking about me so much. I don't think that is a good idea. What do you think?
A: We don't think it's a good idea, either — and it will most likely backfire. She may feel as if she can't say anything about you in front of them, or about them in front of you. A child should feel comfortable talking about anything she wants — we can't think of a situation when a discussion about life with her other parent should be off-limits.
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Written by V. Kumara Swamy
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The Supreme Court will soon lay down guidelines on deciding child custody cases between non resident Indian parents. V. Kumara Swamy explains how the legal lacuna is affecting the lives of parents and children alike
Seven-year-old Adit-ya Chandran and his mother are hiding somewhere in India. If the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as per a recent Supreme Court order, manages to trace Aditya, he will be handed over to his US-based father.
“My son has not gone to school for the last two-and-a-half years. He has been forced to live like a fugitive by his mother in violation of court orders both in the US and India,” says Dr V. Ravi Chandran, a scientist.
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Written by Rakesh Bhatnagar
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New Delhi: "Don't punish my child, punish me; don't drag him, drag me," a wailing India-born pharmaceutical scientist from the US pleaded as heavily armed CBI sleuths pushed his seven-year-old son inside a court room of the Supreme Court. The sleuths had tracked down the son and his mother to Chennai last week.
Dr V Ravi Chandran has been in India for the past two years, looking for his US-born son Aditya. Chandran's estranged wife Vijayshree Voora moved Aditya to India against an American family court order. The court had also allowed the child's father his joint custody.
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Written by Amrita Singh
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Your identity follows a standard format in India: son or daughter of Mr X. That is how you know one Sunita or Ram is different from another. But what if you don't want to put in your father's name or be identified solely by your family name? Should you be denied all official documents? Shouldn't your mother's name be sufficient to establish your identity?
Unfortunately, that is not the case, as illustrated by the recent case of a 19-year-old Mumbai girl, who was denied a passport because she refused to write her biological father's name on the application form. The man had not communicated with his daughter since the day she was born and the girl thought it justified to leave his name out. Read More Even though her mother raised her and the girl still lives with her, the courts have said she can be granted a passport if she lists her foster father as her father and fills in the application form accordingly.
Mothers in India clearly have a long way to go to achieve legal gender equality.
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Written by John Carvel
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The children of mothers who return to work full time in the years before they start school have slower emotional development and score less well in reading and maths tests, according to a study published today by the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
The disadvantage starts in primary school and persists into early adulthood, with lower educational attainment, higher unemployment and greater likelihood of childbearing early in life.
An early return to work by the mother reduces the child's chances of progressing to A-level from 60% to 50%. The employment patterns of the father have little effect, said the study by John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi, professors at Essex University.
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Written by Deccan Chronicle
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The Supreme Court has given the Karnataka police “a last chance” to trace the six-and-a-halfyear-old son of Dr V.Ravinchandra, a scientist from the US, who has alleged that his ex-wife has kidnapped their son.
Dr Ravichandra held a press conference in the city in February alleging that his ex-wife Vijayashree Voora had vanished two years after abducting their son Aditya. The couple divorced in the US in 2005 and got equal custody of their son. Dr Ravinchandra, who has since become a member of Child Rights Initiative Shared Parenting, claims that his wife is mentally unstable. He has also managed to get an ex-parte order from a court in the US giving him sole custody of Aditya. “Every time I come from the US and get a clue about where she is, she escapes, even as I rush to the spot,” he said at the press conference.
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