Any comments about the policy on international adoption in China?

Question

China shift their adoption policy and they will higher standard of the requirement for the foreigners to adopt Chinese children, such as income and family status.

Any comments about the policy on international adoption in China?

Answer 1

Personally, I think it's their country's children and they can do what they want.  I also think that the policy is too restrictive especially sinc there are so many children that need homes.

Answer 2

The tighter restrictions involve more than just income and family status.

They will no longer accept adoption requests from people who have/been treated for mental illness, a police record, BMI over 40 and any deformaties.  They also narrowed the age limit.

I have no problem with this, they have every right to find the best possible people to parent their abandoned children.

Answer 3

i was adopted from china

Answer 4

I think the restictions are great.

Answer 5

What sort of comments are you looking for?

These changes aren't really new. They were announced about a year ago and went into effect last May. Along with what you mentioned, there are new requirements that exclude people over 50 (except for special needs children, which can go up to 55), no adoption by singles, no one grossly obese, no one disfigured or disabled. No one with certain diseases, like Lupus, must have stable marriage history, no recent psychiatric meds, etc.

I generally agree with the others -- China has every right to restrict adoptions to those they judge to be the best adoptive parents.

When it comes to specifics, I find it a little less cut and dried. For instance we have close friends that adopted their first child from China at the same time and from the same orphanage where we adopted ours. And they just adopted their second, having applied before the rule changes. But under the new rules they would have been excluded, because the mom has Lupus. But here's the thing, I think they would still be the BEST kind of international adoptive family, because both parents are Chinese American.

And also I think parents with disabilities would make great parents to a child with a disability (especially the same disability), and that is no longer possible (as I understand it).

But I still think it is up to China to say. And it is important to understand that the reason for these restrictions is that China can afford to be more picky, because there are now a lot more foreigners (i.e. non-Chinese) looking to adopt from China than there are babies available -- because fewer kids are being abandoned and more are being adopted in China. That's a great thing! I believe that fewer children should be adopted internationally from China, because the best place for them would be in families in China  -- ideally the families they were born to.

Answer 6

Due to the "popularity" of adopting from China, they now have more potential adoptive parents than they do children.  (or at least healthy infants!!!)  Thus they can be more picky.  Its there choice, it is NOT a right to adopt a child from another country.

Answer 7

It's completely within the rights of the government of any country to determine the criteria for foreigners that wish to adopt.  I don't have a problem with it.  South Korea did the same thing, a few years ago.