Mother Teresa's nuns say no to single parent adoptions in India

Sujoy Dhar and Nita Bhalla - Thomson Reuters Foundation

A spokesperson for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity (MoC) has announced that the MoC will be terminating their adoption services in India in response to new government rules that have made it easier for single, divorced, and separated people to adopt children, according to the article. The MoC have "voluntarily given up" their “recognised status” to run 18 “adoption centres,” which house hundreds of children, as MoC disagree with single-parent adoption. The children currently living in these “centres” will be handed over to the authorities for adoption, says the article.