[blindkid] Adoption from China

[holly miller]

Those restrictions are true but exceptions are frequently made, especially
for special needs children and even more so if the child is older.
I have recently seen several exceptions made for the age of the parents &
family size.

I can't swear to it but if I recall correctly, they are willing to consider
disabilities when the parent's disability matches the child's.  So they'd be
likely to consider a blind parent adopting a blind child, deaf parent a deaf
child etc.

Unfortunately there still have been no exceptions that I know of for single
parents (unless their paperwork was in before the changes).

Holly
aka Hank's mom

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM, <dhammelia at aol.com> wrote:

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> China now restricts adoptions by handicapped parents.  Marty and Merry Noel
> were able to adopt as they were in the system before the change in rules.
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> "China introduced new rules in 2006 that restrict the number of foreigners
> adopting Chinese babies. The new rules ban the obese, disabled, unmarried
> and people who take anti-depressants from adopting."
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> We did not know Paul and Jesse were autistic from the information we were
> given.  We had declined a prior blind child as the video showed he was
> clearly autistic.  The adoption agency denied that child was autistic.
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> So it is difficult to know what you are getting on a foreign adoption.
>
> Dave Hammel
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