Adopted Children and Foster Parents: A Study of Preeti Singh's Flirting with Fate

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

Jitender Singh

Adoption and fostering are the customary or optional procedures for taking as one�s own a child of other parents.

The term �adoption� usually refers to the legal transformation of a child�s familial status, through which individuals

permanently assume the major responsibilities of birth parents. The term �fostering� usually indicates a temporary,

mutually agreed upon delegation of the nurturance of the parental role.

The present paper aims to ing into the notice Preeti Singh�s debut novel, Flirting with Fate (2012). Touching the genre of crime fiction, the author

has delved deep into the psyche of adopted children, simultaneously exposing how a well educated society receives these kids and what eathes

into their frustrated intellect. The paper is an endeavour to present the grim glimpses of child psychology, to measure the effect of suppressed

emotions onto a human�s life and what kind of relationship is shared by adopted children and their foster parents