New Government Policy Forces Missionaries of Charity to End Adoption Services

By Published on October 16, 2015

.- Orphanages in India run by the Missionaries of Charity have decided to close their doors in light of new adoption guidelines that the sisters say violate their ideological and religious views.

Sister Amala, who serves at Nirmala Shishu Bhawan, a New Delhi orphanage run by the Missionaries of Charity, explained the decision.

“The new guidelines hurt our conscience. They are certainly not for religious people like us,” she said, according to NPR.

The new protocol issued by the Ministry of Women and Child Development allows single, divorced, and separated individuals to participate in adoption services from the Missionaries of Charity, who have a policy of only placing children with a married mother and father.

“Our rules only allow married couples to adopt,” Sister Amala explained, saying the sisters are concerned about the moral upbringing of the children who are adopted by single individuals, rather than a mother and a father.

Under the new law, prospective parents will now register online through the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), which will allow single, separated or divorced individuals to participate in registered adoption services throughout India.

The new guidelines are aimed at boosting the number of adoptions within India, where the adoption process is notoriously complex. According to the Ministry of Women and Children Development, opening adoption services to a wider group of prospective parents will help increase adoptions within the country.

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