Unwed Mother

The children of unwed mothers and rape victims can live in this country with the fundamental rights of privacy, liberty, and dignity, the Kerala High Court has said and allowed a person to include his mother's name.

A young unmarried woman abandoned her newborn baby near Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur's official residence ''Oakover'' but was caught within hours, the police said.

A private doctor and an auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) were arrested on Saturday, days after the death of a newborn girl whom they allegedly dumped near a temple after she was abandoned by her unwed mother at a nursing home in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district, the police said.

Between 1925 and the 1960s, in a tiny town called Tuam in western Ireland's County Galway, thousands of "fallen women" and their "illegitimate" children passed through the Mother and Baby Home operated by the Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours.

A nurse at a government hospital soothes a crying baby rescued in a raid on a private hospital that police suspect was selling abandoned newborns on the black market. “She is too weak and needs special care,” the nurse said, patting the girl who has been born underweight and premature. “I pray a nice couple adopts her and raises her like thei...

The Supreme Court today held that unwed mother can have the custody of the child without the father's consent and she must not be compelled to disclose the identity of the father to the authorities. Her right of privacy is of paramount importance, the court added.

An unwed mother can be the legal guardian of a child without the consent of the father, the Supreme Court today ruled.

The External Affairs Ministry today refuted reports that an unwed mother is required to state, while applying for a passport, as to how "she conceived the child" and "if she was raped."

A Philippine priest faces possible sanctions after his scathing condemnation of an unwed mother in church ignited a social media firestorm, his religious superiors said on Tuesday.

Revelations this month that nuns had buried nearly 800 infants and young children in unmarked graves at an Irish orphanage during the last century caused stark headlines and stirred strong emotions and calls for investigation. Since then, however, a more sober picture has emerged that exposes how many of those headlines were wrong.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament on Thursday to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over several decades.

Santhal tribals in a Bihar village have added a new chapter to their ancient custom of young men and women living together - allowing an unwed mother to marry her dead partner's body to make her children legitimate and give them property rights.

On the occasion of "World Indigenous Day" today, Kerala government has set up a cabinet panel to look into the woes of unwed tribal mothers in the state, a minister said. In view of recent media reports about the plight of unwed tribal mothers, some of them teenagers, the government has set up a cabinet panel comprising Home Minister Thiruvanchoor ...

An unwed pregnant girl delivered a baby in the toilet of a Turkmenistan Airlines plane from Russia before it landed at the airport in Amritsar on Wednesday and allegedly tried to dispose of the new-born, police said.

The children of unwed mothers and rape victims can live in this country with the fundamental rights of privacy, liberty, and dignity, the Kerala High Court has said and allowed a person to include his mother's name.

A young unmarried woman abandoned her newborn baby near Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur's official residence ''Oakover'' but was caught within hours, the police said.

A private doctor and an auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) were arrested on Saturday, days after the death of a newborn girl whom they allegedly dumped near a temple after she was abandoned by her unwed mother at a nursing home in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district, the police said.

Between 1925 and the 1960s, in a tiny town called Tuam in western Ireland's County Galway, thousands of "fallen women" and their "illegitimate" children passed through the Mother and Baby Home operated by the Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours.

A nurse at a government hospital soothes a crying baby rescued in a raid on a private hospital that police suspect was selling abandoned newborns on the black market. “She is too weak and needs special care,” the nurse said, patting the girl who has been born underweight and premature. “I pray a nice couple adopts her and raises her like thei...

The Supreme Court today held that unwed mother can have the custody of the child without the father's consent and she must not be compelled to disclose the identity of the father to the authorities. Her right of privacy is of paramount importance, the court added.

An unwed mother can be the legal guardian of a child without the consent of the father, the Supreme Court today ruled.

The External Affairs Ministry today refuted reports that an unwed mother is required to state, while applying for a passport, as to how "she conceived the child" and "if she was raped."

A Philippine priest faces possible sanctions after his scathing condemnation of an unwed mother in church ignited a social media firestorm, his religious superiors said on Tuesday.

Revelations this month that nuns had buried nearly 800 infants and young children in unmarked graves at an Irish orphanage during the last century caused stark headlines and stirred strong emotions and calls for investigation. Since then, however, a more sober picture has emerged that exposes how many of those headlines were wrong.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament on Thursday to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over several decades.

Santhal tribals in a Bihar village have added a new chapter to their ancient custom of young men and women living together - allowing an unwed mother to marry her dead partner's body to make her children legitimate and give them property rights.

On the occasion of "World Indigenous Day" today, Kerala government has set up a cabinet panel to look into the woes of unwed tribal mothers in the state, a minister said. In view of recent media reports about the plight of unwed tribal mothers, some of them teenagers, the government has set up a cabinet panel comprising Home Minister Thiruvanchoor ...

An unwed pregnant girl delivered a baby in the toilet of a Turkmenistan Airlines plane from Russia before it landed at the airport in Amritsar on Wednesday and allegedly tried to dispose of the new-born, police said.