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[quote]raushan

You say:

"I think the thing which is proved here is that adopting a child will not make you the real parent."

It is stating the obvious. But what about the prohibition on calling the adopters as parents when they are in effect virtual parents of the adoptee. I personally know the cases where some abandoned children were given parentage by their adopters as their real parentage could not be found out. You can well imagine what will be the social status of a man especially in a Muslim muaashirah when his ID card shows 'parentage not known'.

I know a child in Attock city who was abandoned by his mother who was a lunatic with unknown antecedents. The child was brought up first by my parents-in-law and then taken up by their neighbour who was a policeman who was transferred away from the city and took the child with him. After about 30 years I saw the boy who now
appeared to be a respectable person sitting in the office of my brother-in-law. I could not recognize him but my brother told me that he was Javed who was brought up for sometime by them. Javed told me that he worked as a manager of some transport company (Khan Bus perhaps) at Feisalabad and had come to Attock to trace out his real parentage or any relationship though, as he said, his IDC does carry his adopter's name as his father. What a human problem it was, a man tracing out his identity after such a long time. I sympathised with him and tried my best to trace out any link of his family but all in vain.  Old people remembered him as a child and his lunatic mother who roamed in the streets but no body could give any link to his family. So after weeks of useless search the man went back to his home disappointed.[/quote]

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