INSTITUTIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND TRENDS OF ADOPTION IN INDIA: A STUDY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PROVISIONS AND SAFEGUARDS FOR CHILDREN UNDER JUVENILE JUSTICE (CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN) ACT, 2015

This paper primarily focuses to studyLaws, regulations and Rules framed for the adoptionof children and trends in adoption and challenges faced by the prospective adoptive parents undergoing the process of adoption inter alia, the preferences of the Prospective Adoptive Parents while adopting orphaned,surrendered ,abandoned and relative child. The study is a sincere endeavour to analyse and examine the role of various statutory and nonstatutory intuitions involved in the process of adoption in India and those institutions which are instrumental in protecting and safeguarding the interests of children in need of care and protection. The paper also analysed the adoption trends in various countries and International laws, Conventions, Rules governing and framed for the protection, welfare and safeguarding the interests of children in general and children declared legally free for adoption.