Why Are Indian Families Against Adopting Children?

This week, The Swaddle team explores the history of adoption practices, and why adopting a child is often a 'last resort' for families in India.

Edited by: Neha Shekhawat
Scripted by: Anushka Dias
Presented by: Anahita Sachdev
Visual research: Samiksha Mathur
Produced by: Shrishti Malhotra
Creative Supervisor: Karla Bookman

Want to learn more about the research in this video? Check out these readings:

-Macchiwalla, Ashraf I. "Inter-country adoption of related children of Indian origin." International Social Work 24, no. 3 (1981): 8-13.
-Pande, Amrita. "“It may be her eggs but it’s my blood”: Surrogates and everyday forms of kinship in India." Qualitative sociology 32, no. 4 (2009): 379-397.
-Bharadwaj, Aditya. "Why adoption is not an option in India: the visibility of infertility, the secrecy of donor insemination, and other cultural complexities." Social science & medicine 56, no. 9 (2003): 1867-1880.
-Riley, Nancy E., and Krista E. Van Vleet. Making families through adoption. Sage Publications, 2011.


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