What worries most people is the fact that there are thousands of children abandoned in India every year and very few find families. British national Sarah, who currently lives in India, adopted Sam who had been given up by his mother because she was a minor. Being in India you see so many children who are in need that it's an automatic decision to adopt. Under no circumstances can a woman afford to keep a child born out of wedlock. These children are left in hospitals, railway tracks or outside agencies.
Beliefs add to the number of children in orphanages.
Certain communities, like the Banjaras in Andhra Pradesh, think that if their third baby is a girl it is a bad omen and give away their daughters. In other cases, poverty forces parents to sell their babies. Generally, girls are still not as welcome in many families as boys because of the high costs involved at the time of her marriage. The percentage of girls in some states is considerably lower than that of boys because of female foeticide or even infanticide. The brokers got a percentage of this money.