When I get older I want to adopt a Japanese or Chinese child any suggestions how?

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When I get older I want to adopt a Japanese or Chinese child any suggestions how?

Answer 1

As another poster mentioned, Japan does not want foreigners adopting their children.

I am the mother of two wonderful daughters from China, until a year ago, I would have encouraged you to adopt from there, HOWEVER, China adoption is not as easy as it once was.  Referral wait times (the time from sending your paperwork to China to the time you meet your daughter) has gone form under a year to closer to two years, rumor has it that it that the wait will only get longer.

Answer 2

Go through Bethany Christian...they are nation wide and have lots of experience working overseas.  They also have inhouse grants, and you would also be able to aply for Steven Curtis Chapmans Shohannas hope grant.  Bethany is a great agency!

Answer 3

Well I don't think the Japanese allow international adoptions for their orphans.

However, China does.  International adoption (of girls especially) in China is growing fast and can be a long and sometimes complicated process but I think totally worth it and not too difficult.  I have two sisters adopted from China, I went with my mom to pick up the first girl about 5 years ago.  About 2 years ago they adopted another girl.

My parents did not have to pay nearly as much because these girls were "special needs".  The first girl, we were told had spina bifida.  We expected a paralyzed, quiet or possibly retarded child.  When we finally saw her we were pleasantly shocked to see she was a completely normal, beautiful child, with a few small "plumbing problems" that have since been fixed through surgeries that were a result of her "spina bifida".  Now at 6, my little sister is a crazy american girl, she's incredibly sociable and charismatic, very intelligent, athletic, normal and healthy.  I am very close to her because it was my mom and I that went over there to pick her up.  The second girl, from a different province in China, had only one problem that made her "special needs" and that was a missing hand - she had been born without one.  At 2 years old this girl could tie her shoes and was potty trained.  She's incredibly smart, very cute and personable and attracts attention.

My parents would consider themselves incredibly lucky with these girls.  They're young (6 and 4), but show no signs of any emotional problems or anything and are very healthy.  I have two other adopted siblings from Russia, and all of the kids understand that they were adopted and are happy with the family they have now.

Adopting is an amazing thing, but you have to be sure it's something you need to do and something you can stick with.  There is still stigma attached to interracial and international adoptions.  People might ask "Why don't you adopt a child from our own country?"  The child might have issues with being a different race than the rest of their family.  They might have troubles identifying with their ethnicity or the one of their families.  Too often people compare my mom to Angelina Jolie or celebrities that go and internationall adopt, which I think is incredibly offensive.  These kids are not show animals, they're not meant to garner attention, they are my parents children.

Good luck with whatever you decide, it is sure to be an enlightening experience.

Answer 4

Why just those nationalities? There are so many children who need caring families. How are they going to find those families when everyone wants to following celebrities and adopt foreign children??

Answer 5

Only Japanese citizens or long term residents living in Japan are able to adopt orphans in that country.  

China does participate in international adoption.  (We plan to adopt one or two little girls from China in the relatively near future).  You can check out an agency such as http://www.CWA.org to find out more in regards to China adoption.

Your first step, when the time comes, will be to contact an agency.  THey will make sure you meet the requirements, complete your home study, and guide you in the process of collecting the paperwork for your dossier, and then submit your dossier to the China Center for Adoption Affairs.

The paperwork process takes approximately six months.  Once it is submitted to the CCAA, the wait for a referral is currently about two years.  Once you accept your referral, you travel to China a month or two later for a stay of two weeks or so.  You will meet your new child and complete the adoption process.

SOME of China's requirements are:

Only married couples may adopt.  Single parents are not allowed to adopt, and neither are homosexual couples.  I think you must have been married atleast two years, or five years if there is a divorce among either of the parents.  There can not be more than two divorces amongst the parents.

Both parents must be atleast 30 years of age.

You must have a clear criminal record (some minor offenses may be accepted on a case by case basis).

You must be in good physical health (including no history of drug or alcohol abuse, not on medication for depression or other mental disorders, among other requirements).

You must have a stable home and income.  Income must be atleast $10,000 per year per family member, including the new child being adopted.  Your net worth must be atleast $80,000.

You can not have more than four children (biological or adopted) in the home to submit your dossier to the CCAA.  The youngest child, or most recent adoption, must be atleast one year.

Check out the link I posted for further regulations.

Good luck!

Answer 6

I'm not sure about Janpanese adoptions, I think it would be quite hard to adopt babies from there, since it's as wealthy as U.S, adoptable babies there are hard to find, because Japanese has small families. One or two child at the most, orphans are mostly adopted by their own wealthy citizens.

China is also increase their standard too, you have to be 30, less than 45 years old, you also have to be married. Those are the new rule I have heard.

Personally, I have to tell you a truth about chinese adoption agency, Chinese government are very racist, only want their babies to be adopted by white or asian couples. Which my sis founded out when trying to adopt a baby there.

Answer 7

First, start saving your cash, these adoptions can be prohibitively expensive!  Then research reputable international adoption agencies to see what their requirements are. (some require you to make a specific amount of money a year, etc)