Thanks to foreign parents, 60% of children adopted in India are girls

More girls from India are adopted by foreign parents than boys, data presented in Lok Sabha show

More girls have been adopted in India than boys over the last four years, according to this reply to the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) on December 22, 2017.

As many as 60% of 12,273 children adopted over four years to 2017-18 were girls, the data show.

Adoptions nationwide declined 20% from 3,988 in 2014-15 to 3,120 in 2016-17, probably because of tightened adoption procedures.

Source: Lok Sabha *As of December 20, 2017

 

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