subject: Adoption – Bring Home a Waiting Child [print this page] Adopting a child is probably the best humanitarian gesture that one can think of. Not only it gives a home to a waiting child, it also gives you the overwhelming joy of parenthood. No matter whether you adopt a child from your country or from a foreign nation, the feelings associated with an adoption stay the same. Two of the most favorable places for adoption are Africa and China. Adopting from Africa and China is easier due to the high number of adoption agencies and favorable adoption laws, however, adoption agencies do check for certain criteria before allowing any adoption.
In order to adopt from China, the adoptive parents to be financially stable, medically healthy, and should have a clean criminal background. The collective income of adoptive parents should amount to at least $10,000 per person for every person of the family. This means that for a family of three, the total income of the parents should be at least $30,000 as the child will be way too young to have any source of income. The adoptive parents should not have any chronic ailment or criminal record.
There is also a limit on the age of the adoptive parents. Parents between the age of 30 and 40 are allowed to adopt a child between the age of 6 and 18 months. If the parents are between 40 and 50 years of age, they can adopt a child between the age of 18 and 36 months. Parents above the age of 50 are not allowed to adopt from China.
Adopting from Africa is feasible by either going through the local courts or by filing a petition for sole guardianship of the child. In both the scenarios the adoptive parents are required to prove that the waiting child has no prospective parents within Africa. Irrespective of the way you choose to adopt a child from Africa, you should be financially stable, healthy, and should not have any type criminal background.
If you are planning to adopt a child from a foreign land, it is advisable that you take the assistance of any reputed adoption agency. You can easily find a suitable one using any popular search engine.
