We found the adoption process very attractive with adoptions from China. While the Chinese process can be a slow one (as this is written it is currently taking about 9 - 10 months to receive an assignment after your paperwork to is submitted to China, see our newsletters for more current information), the process is extremely fair, ethical, and predictable. All fees are official and known in advance. Healthy infants under eight months old are often available. Single female parents are allowed to adopt, although they must be under 50 and are currently limited to 8% of total adoptions, so waiting lists can be very long for singles. Single women up to age 55 may adopt Special Needs children without delay. China imposes few age or other restrictions on adoptive parents. Parents must be at least 30 years of age, and parents over 45 may be asked to adopt older children. At least one parent must be under 55 years of age. The available children are easily and ethically classifiable as orphans, as defined by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Adopted orphans are more routinely approved by the USCIS for immigration into the United States from China than from any other country.
Studies routinely show that children from China are the healthiest of any children available to be adopted from a developing country. Hepatitis B rates are around 2 – 3% in infants, and there has yet to be a case of a child with AIDS adopted from China, even with over 6,000 adoptions per year for the past several years. Children receive good and consistent care, and typically come from average families who have exceeded the population regulations. In other countries, children are normally only available due to extreme poverty and/or substance abuse by the birth family. Americans Adopting Orphans offers an optional service that arranges for a medical exam to be performed in your child’s home town before your adoption is complete. By having a doctor who works for you, as opposed to the orphanage, you may obtain a second medical opinion about the overall health of your child.
There is a tremendous need for children to be adopted. With over a billion people and a thousand orphanages, it is likely that as many as 100,000 children a year enter state care, never to have forever families.
