This article examines the emerging trend of single-parent adoption in contemporary India. It describes how single men and women, through their desire for parenting-through-adoption, engage with different ways of authoring their sexualities and sexual agencies. Adoption law in India determines who is fit to be adopted, who is fit to adopt, and the right conditions for adoptions. This article simultaneously looks at how questions of sexuality are framed at the intersections of law, cultural constructions of heteronormativity and sexual health, and narratives of single-adoptive parents.