Sushmita Sen Celebrates Younger Daughter’s Ninth BDay

Birthdays make us smile and when we  read actor Sushmita Sen’s birthday note to her younger daughter, we felt the warm fuzzies.

Single mom Sushmita Sen recently celebrated her younger daughter Alisah’s ninth birthday. She posted a heartfelt note on Instagram with her picture.

It read, “Birthday love of my life!!! Thank you for being such a #gift in our lives & for being the #rooh of my existence!!!what a divine #soul you are my Alisah maa!!! To your health, happiness & unshakable strength of goodness, your Renée didi & i are blessed to turn 9 years old with you today!!To know you is to know #godslove in action!!! And to be YOUR mother is to know God’s kindest blessing!! We love you Shona!!! Keep smiling & growing…what a magical life awaits!!! Dugga Dugga.”

Sushmita’s daughters Renee and Alisah are both adopted. The actor had to fight a long legal battle before she could adopt Renee as adoption by a single mother was not viewed as socially acceptable in the year 2000.

She had to fight another legal battle to adopt Alisah, her second, as at that time, the law stated that you couldn’t adopt another child of the same sex as your previous one.

Laws of adoption in India have come a long way.

Earlier, parents could not adopt a child of the same sex as their previous child, whether biological or otherwise.

However, today, parents can adopt a child of any gender,irrespective of whether their previous child is male or female.

Single males above the age of 21 can adopt a child. This rule wasn’t there earlier. However, a single male can only adopt a male child.

Adoptive parents earlier could also choose the child they wish to adopt among a choice of three kids. Today, adoptive parents are referred to a child by CARA, the government approved  adoption body. Parents can only accept or reject the child referred to them.

This move was made in an effort to stop parents from treating adoptive children as commodities. It is also because the number of children on adoption are about 2000, but the number of parents on the waiting list are about 15000.

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