Mother Teresa’s Nuns Prefer Children Go Homeless Than Be Adopted by Single Mothers

I've been a long-time critic of Mother Teresa's orphanages and hospice practices, since visiting with her in 1990. Their mission has been to save souls at the cost of saving lives. It comes as no surprise now that when India's Ministry of Women and Child Development modified their rules to permit women who are single, divorced or separated to be candidates for child adoption, that the Missionaries of Charity would close their orphanages rather than come under secular regulations. Since their orphanages have been established in the 1950s the Roman Catholic organization has retained absolute control over which parents were worthy of adoption, and which babies go where. "What if the single parent who we give our baby to turns out to be gay or lesbian? What security or moral upbringing will these children get?" asks the nun in charge of their North Delhi center.

Best estimates are that there are 50,000 homeless children in India, but that is only part of the population served by this regulatory change. The adoption process in India has reflected the worst of that country's often mind-numbing bureaucracy, with adoptions costing thousands of dollars (accompanied by bribes to the appropriate bureaucrats), reams of paperwork and years of waiting. It has resulted in black market "babies for sale" rings, involving kidnapping of infants (about 15 per hour nationwide) to meet the market demand rather than finding those children truly in need. “Why would you wait two years for a baby when you can just pay someone to get you one straight away?” said the assistant director of one of Delhi’s oldest adoption agencies.

The Ministry's attempt to clean up the process is a noble one. Once again we see the harm that this world-renown "charity" does to the population it claims to serve, and to the broader population.

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