What type of people in the USA are not allowed to adopt...?

Question

children legally?

Answer 1

Child abusers for sure, along with most felons.  I'm not sure that it's a legal issue as much as it is that the agencies just toss out the applications.  Plenty of felons and child abusers are parents, you know.

Answer 2

It is set by the state - people with documented history of child or elder abuse, felons, and those convicted of  crimes involving moral turpitude.

People with documented mental instability.

I understand that some states do not allow unmarried people to adopt. In other states, unmarried people can only adopt children of the same gender.

In some, if not most, jurisdictions, homosexual couples are not allowed to adopt. That is changing.

Answer 3

people who can't afford it...or identify as a same-s*x-couple (in some states)

other variables are relative, as long as one can shell out the moola.

Answer 4

child abusers

Answer 5

Criminals.

Answer 6

Those with criminal offenses against children or others (molestation, assault, rape, etc.), those with misdemeanors which can affect the safety of children (DUI's, weapons violations, etc.), those who have an unstable life (married two weeks, 5 divorces, no stable home or job), those who do not have a good understanding of child development (time out for 2 hours, potty training at 7 months, etc.), improper home environment (trash around, no locks on doors, next door to a crack house, etc.), history of Protective Services referrals (adult or child), outcry from current children, inappropriate lifestyle (stripper job, drug use, etc.) and MANY others.  Generally, families have to meet what is called "community standards" meaning at a minimum have the lifestyle of most of the community.  And the standards also vary state to state, with some not allowing guns in the home, or swimming pools having to have a fence around them, etc.

Answer 7

Right now, the type who can't afford to shell out 20K plus.  I don't like this, but it's true.

Answer 8

With all legal and ethical adoptions in the US all paps are required to pass homestudies, interviews, criminal checks, etc.

Including private adoption.

Adopting private or abroad does not by-pass the system. The same rules apply.

Answer 9

In the USA - anyone can.  If they don't qualify they just by-pass the system and go private or abroad.

Answer 10

For any example that anyone has given above, there are recent (within the last year or two) examples in the news of people who fit that category who were, in fact, allowed to adopt.

For example, the Ransavage case was just in the news a few weeks ago: dad got a DUI less than a year before mom went to China to pick up their second child, which is against the rules of both the Chinese government and our (US) immigration policy. They conveniently "forgot" to tell the necessary officials in either country. China didn't realize and let them go through with the adoption. The US figured it out and informed them that they had broken the law and the child would not be given a visa to enter the US, as per the regulations specified in all the documents they had to sign before the mom ever left the country to go to China. You guessed it: in the end, with enough pleading and crying, they managed to get what they wanted despite being criminals in the eyes of two countries.

That's just the most recent case I can think of that fits one of the categories listed above. There are similar stories for every type of prospective adoptive parent.

So, there is really no type of people unable to adopt in the US. In fact, the sneakier they are, the more likely they'll get a child. It's often the parents who try to be as ethical as possible who have a harder time, because they make the effort to follow all the laws.

Answer 11

drug addicts pedifiles criminals people who cannot financially or emotionly support a child those with mental illness or depression and those who cannot pass a phycial

Answer 12

I guess people that don't pass the qualifications or don't deserve a child like paedophiles and drug users and abusive people.

Answer 13

Just about anyone with money, Dave.

And that is NOT true about adopted children not being abused.  They are actually abused at higher rates than non-adopted children.

Here is a news story from this week (I read about these cases every few weeks)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23075557/

It's all about the money.