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New Rules Apply To All Adoption Agencies Working In China
Effective May 1, 2007
I.
The adopters are a couple of one male and one female with a stable
marital relationship. In case that both the husband and wife do not have
any ex-marriage, the length of marriage has to reach two years. In case
that either the husband or wife has ex-marriages (not more than 2), the
length of the current marriage has to reach 5 years.
II. Both the husband and wife have reached the age of 30 years and are
under 50.
For
adoption of special needs child, both of them should have reached the
age of 30 and are under 55.
III. Both the husband and wife are fully healthy physically and
mentally, and do not have the following conditions:
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AIDS
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mental handicap
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infectious disease within infective
stage
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binocular blind or binocular
parallax or monocular blind and with no ocular prosthesis
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binaural hearing loss or language
function loss; adoption of special needs children who have identical
conditions will be exempt from this limitation
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non-function or dysfunction of
limbs or trunk caused by impairment, incompleteness, numbness or
deformation; severe facial deformation
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severe diseases which requires long
term treatment and which affect life expectancy, like malignant
tumor, lupus erythematosus, nephrosis, epilepsy, and etc.
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post-surgery of major organs
transplantation, not yet 10 years
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schizophrenia
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medication for severe mental
disorders, like depression, mania, or anxiety neurosis, and etc,
stopped not more than 2 years
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BMI (BMI=weight (kg)/ height2 (m2)
)> 40
IV.
Either the husband or wife holds a stable occupation. The family annual
income reaches $10,000 for each family member, including the prospective
adoptee and the family net assets value should reach $80,000.
The
family annual income does not include welfare income, like relief fund,
pension, unemployment insurance, or government subsidy, and etc.
V.
Both the husband and wife have received education of or above the level
of senior high school, or vocational skills training of the same level.
VI.
The number of children in family under the age of 18 years does not
reach 5, and the youngest one should have reached the age of 1 year.
Adoption of special needs children will be exempt from the limitation of
"the number of children in family under the age of 18 years does not
reach 5".
VII. Both the husband and wife have never come under any criminal
sanction. And they behave honorably with good moral characters, and
abide by regulations and laws. Both of them do not accord with the
following situations:
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have a history of domestic
violence, sex abuse, abandonment or abuse of children (even if they
are not consequently arrested or criminated)
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have a history of taking narcotics
like opium, morphine, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine,
and etc, and medication for mental diseases, which are able to
arouse addiction among human beings
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have a history of alcohol abuse and
have given up drinking not more than 10 years ago
Adoption application will be given consideration on a case by case basis
when either the husband or the wife has less than 3 criminal records of
slight severity with no severe outcomes, and the time for correction of
wrong has reached 10 years, or has less than 5 records of traffic law
violation with no severe outcomes.
VIII. The adopters are able to have a correct cognition of adoption, and
expect to provide a warm family for the orphaned children (or children
with handicap and disability) via adoption and to meet the needs of the
children adopted for the sake of a good development of them. They have a
correct cognition of inter-country adoption as well and are fully
mentally-prepared for the potential risks within inter-country-adoption
and for the situations of children adopted as potential diseases,
developmental delay, post-placement maladjustment, and etc.
IX.
The adopters make in the adoption application letter clear promises of
being able to accept post-placement follow-ups and offer post-placement
reports as required.
X.
The fixed number of year or age that appears in this letter shall be
dated from the day when the adoption application documents are logged in
at the CCAA. |
