{"id":1427,"date":"2008-11-09T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T11:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2010-09-25T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T11:18:28","slug":"adoption-on-hold-over-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/adoption-on-hold-over-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption on hold over licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Taschica Pillay<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Published:Nov 09, 2008 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">A childless Gauteng couple\u2019s wish to give a Mumbai toddler a home has been dashed by bureaucratic bungling.<br \/>\nThe wife and husband are among 20 couples waiting to adopt children from India.<br \/>\nThe couple, who have been married for 12 years, had expected to make a home for the child in August, but ran into trouble when the local adoption organisation\u2019s licence lapsed.<br \/>\nThey started the process in February 2007 after failing to find a child locally. \u201c There were no Indian babies available, which is why we tried the Indian way,\u201d the husband said.<br \/>\nThe director of adoptions in the Department of Social Development, Tebogo Mabe, said the agency\u2019s licence with the Central Authority of India had expired and the adoption was put on hold pending renewal of the licence. The department had asked Indian authorities to fast-track the process.<!--more--><br \/>\nRazia Sattar, who adopted her child from India, said she waited for about five years to adopt an Indian child locally until she found out about adopting from India.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.thetimes.co.za\/PrintEdition\/Article.aspx?id=880385<\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taschica Pillay Published:Nov 09, 2008 \u00a0A childless Gauteng couple\u2019s wish to give a Mumbai toddler a home has been dashed by bureaucratic bungling. The wife and husband are among 20 couples waiting to adopt children from India. The couple, who have been married for 12 years, had expected to make a home for the child&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/adoption-on-hold-over-licence\/\" title=\"Read Adoption on hold over licence\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}