India has a problem, a crisis of monumental proportions and which effects those with no voice, at least those with no words to defend themselves. Last winter India released reports that estimated that 10 million baby girls have been killed in India in the last 20 years – I would go so far to say that that this could be described most accurately as “sex selective genocide.”

In a radical and long overdue move, India’s Central Adoption Resource Agency is now striving to make it easier for Western families to adopt their baby girls. In a recent article in the UK Times, they underscored the crisis as such:

INDIA is to urge couples in Britain and other western countries to adopt
thousands of unwanted children languishing in orphanages throughout the
subcontinent and save them from a life of poverty and emotional destitution.
There are more than 11m abandoned children in India, where a
growing number of newborn babies are being dumped anonymously in cots placed
outside orphanages in an initiative to deter infanticide.
About 90% of those abandoned are girls whose poor young mothers cannot afford to keep them. They face a bleak future as beggars, prostitutes or menial labourers if families cannot be found for them.

Read more at India pleads: adopt our orphan girls. As much as I would want children to remain in their own countries, the first priority and most basic priority is that every child have a home.