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NEW DELHI — Thirty orphanages run by the group founded by Mother Teresa have decided to shutter their adoption services in India rather than comply with a new government system that makes it easier for single and divorced people to adopt children.
“We have already shut our adoption services, because we believe our children may not receive real love,” said Sister Amala at Nirmala Shishu Bhawan, a New Delhi orphanage run by the Missionaries of Charity. “We do not wish to give children to single parents or divorced people. It is not a religious rule, but a human rule. Children need both parents, male and female. That is only natural, isn’t it?”
In recent months, the government has overhauled India’s complex adoption bureaucracy to reduce the long, frustrating waiting period faced by prospective parents and boost the country’s woefully low adoption rates.
Estimates of the number of orphans in India vary from about 16 million to as many as 30 million, a figure cited by several nongovernmental organizations, but only about 2,500 were adopted last year, down from 5,700 four years ago, according to the Women and Child Development Ministry.
Under the earlier system, orphanages around the country were allowed to handpick parents and match them with children. But that process, officials say, operated with scant oversight and was plagued by corruption, trafficking, delays, favoritism and prejudice.
Nuns linked to Mother Teresa halt adoption services over new system
This is a good thing. Get the kids out of the orphanages. The fact that this is more unified should do wonders.
“We have already shut our adoption services, because we believe our children may not receive real love,” said Sister Amala at Nirmala Shishu Bhawan, a New Delhi orphanage run by the Missionaries of Charity. “We do not wish to give children to single parents or divorced people. It is not a religious rule, but a human rule. Children need both parents, male and female. That is only natural, isn’t it?”
In recent months, the government has overhauled India’s complex adoption bureaucracy to reduce the long, frustrating waiting period faced by prospective parents and boost the country’s woefully low adoption rates.
Estimates of the number of orphans in India vary from about 16 million to as many as 30 million, a figure cited by several nongovernmental organizations, but only about 2,500 were adopted last year, down from 5,700 four years ago, according to the Women and Child Development Ministry.
Under the earlier system, orphanages around the country were allowed to handpick parents and match them with children. But that process, officials say, operated with scant oversight and was plagued by corruption, trafficking, delays, favoritism and prejudice.
Nuns linked to Mother Teresa halt adoption services over new system
This is a good thing. Get the kids out of the orphanages. The fact that this is more unified should do wonders.
