Why India's adoption rate is abysmal despite its 30 million abandoned kids

There aren't enough children available for adoption because the ratio of abandoned children to children in institutionalised care is lopsided

Oldest of six siblings, Monica works as a domestic help in the eastern part of the Capital. She dropped out of school after Class V to work since her father, the only working member of the family, wasn’t making enough money as a rickshaw-puller. The 19-year-old feels happy that all her siblings are in school, and she hopes that her and her parents’s sacrifices and hard work will help them “become something better”. Monica sacrificed her education to give her siblings the opportunity to permanently break free from the suffocating chamber of poverty. There are millions of children across India,