Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity orphanages to shut down?

“This decision was arrived soon after we received the new “Guidelines Governing Adoption of Children, 2015″ issued under a notification from the union ministry of women and child development”, the Missionaries of Charity said in a statement.

(PTI Photo)Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today extended support to the Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity which has voluntarily given up its status to run adoption homes in India. Although it didn’t explicitly cite any reasons for doing so, MoC is known to have been opposed to the Centre’s new guidelines allowing single parents to adopt children (TOI has reported about it, including in our editions of Friday and Saturday).

“We believe that all children should have both parents – a male and a female”. Gandhi said that the orphanages had been following their own agenda but now would have to come under the “unified secular agenda”. Saying “they are good people”, the minister, who’s passionate about adoptions, indicated she would try and persuade the organization to accept the new guidelines.

Moreover, the new law suggests that parents will be given an option to choose between 4 to 6 children before they adopt one.

The vacuum left by the order is being filled by other agencies.

The charity described as “a fruitful and rewarding experience” its adoption work and vowed to “serve wholeheartedly and free of charge – unwed mothers, children with malnutrition, mentally retarded and unable-ed children – in all homes/centers run by us, irrespective of caste, creed and religion”.

While the Missionaries of Charity hasn’t denote its hostile to a new arrangements, the brand new pointers told in July have produced parents (split up, detached, single mums) capable to assume online creation.

“It’s against our faith to give children up for adoption to single parents”, Sister Della Grace had explained. We have to accept that society is changing. “But we carefully study the kind of job pressures of the applicant, and we also ensure that they have a family support system that can step in to give care to the child”. “We have not progressed to that extent yet”, Campos said. This process was said to be tedious, and could take up to months, or even years before the concerned adoption agency reached their final decision.