Adoption [VP]

Adoption means a child changing its house from that of its biological parents into adoptive parents. Here the original parents severe their parental responsibility.

It is generally well known in some families in India though it may be kept a secret in some cases. Often, information about biological parents is also not available in some cases.

Adoption can be for many reasons:
1. A childless couple who wants to have children of others for
their families.
2. From country to country, it may be different but generally the legal and social pattern of such adoptions are generally the same with a recognizable pattern.
3. In recent years, we have many cases of children from orphanages being adopted by Indians and even foreigners. In these cases, we cannot obtain correct birth details and therefore unless sure of the birth details, we have not included them in this study.
4. In India, we do not have known cases of unwed mothers abandoning their children generally and even in those cases where it is known, birth details are always uncertain. Such horoscopes fall outside this research.
5. In India, we have not generally heard of same sex couples adopting children.
6. Slowly, Indians are waking to the reality of not having children if one of the parents has some incurable or inheritable disease.

This is an astrological study of the horoscopes of children who went into adoption sometime after their birth and some of them immediately after birth.

In India, the general arrangements in families is that the child of one brother or sister will be adopted by another sibling and this is done immediately after birth. The dasha at birth becomes relevant for this purpose.