China ending foreign adoptions (1 Viewer)

[Optimus Prime]

Hong Kong (CNN) — China is ending most foreign adoptions of its children, leaving hundreds of American and other foreign families with pending applications in limbo.

Since the early 1990s, China has sent tens of thousands of adoptees overseas – with about half arriving in the United States – as its draconian one-child policy forced many families to abandon children, especially girls and babies with disabilities.

But in recent decades, as China’s economy boomed and births slowed, international adoptions of Chinese children have declined in number. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, they have largely been on hold.

Now the Chinese government is officially ending the program – which it said is in line with global trends, but also comes as officials try to reverse the country’s sharply declining birthrates and avert a looming demographic crisis.

China’s Foreign Ministry announced Thursday that no more Chinese children would be sent abroad for adoption. The only exceptions will be for foreigners adopting the children or stepchildren of blood relatives in China………

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/china/china-ends-foreign-adoptions-children-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app

 

[bigdaddysaints]

it's a darn shame it's cheaper and easier to adopt a baby from another country including flights and hotels than it is to adopt one in the USA. lawyers and govt have made it that way.
a good friend went through this about 9 years ago to adopt here. between his much it cost and how long they had to wait was just stupid..

 

[GrayMatter78]

it's a darn shame it's cheaper and easier to adopt a baby from another country including flights and hotels than it is to adopt one in the USA. lawyers and govt have made it that way.
a good friend went through this about 9 years ago to adopt here. between his much it cost and how long they had to wait was just stupid..

We did fostering first and eventually adopted my now 5 year old daughter.

However, fostering involves more challenges, in my opinion.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

We did fostering first and eventually adopted my now 5 year old daughter.

However, fostering involves more challenges, in my opinion.

my parents Fostered my cousins kids before adopting them. they came out and critiqued every little thing at my parents house. my dad had to turn down the temperature on the hot water heater. they usually don't do all that when you are only adopting..

 

[GrayMatter78]

my parents Fostered my cousins kids before adopting them. they came out and critiqued every little thing at my parents house. my dad had to turn down the temperature on the hot water heater. they usually don't do all that when you are only adopting..

Yeah, they do a lot of that type of stuff. We didn't intend on adoption when we started fostering and had about 16 foster kids in our home over 3 years. It is not for everyone because it's impossible not to get attached and get heartbroken when they have them go back home.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

my parents Fostered my cousins kids before adopting them. they came out and critiqued every little thing at my parents house. my dad had to turn down the temperature on the hot water heater. they usually don't do all that when you are only adopting..

This is insane considering there are zero prerequisites to having your own biological children. I mean I understand trying to mitigate placing children in dangerous/abusive environments but when I think about how many people have their own kids and should not … ugh.

 

[Nisey55]

Yeah, they do a lot of that type of stuff. We didn't intend on adoption when we started fostering and had about 16 foster kids in our home over 3 years. It is not for everyone because it's impossible not to get attached and get heartbroken when they have them go back home.

Thank you for your efforts in caring for those children. It takes very special people to make a difference.

 

[Tapxe]

This is insane considering there are zero prerequisites to having your own biological children. I mean I understand trying to mitigate placing children in dangerous/abusive environments but when I think about how many people have their own kids and should not … ugh.

It's not insane to me. Biological parents can do horrible things to children. Now, the government is placing vulnerable children in non-biological homes. I can see that going terribly wrong for the kids unfortunately.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

It's not insane to me. Biological parents can do horrible things to children. Now, the government is placing vulnerable children in non-biological homes. I can see that going terribly wrong for the kids unfortunately.

yeah, it's unfortunate, but I completely get why burdensome bureaucracy happens
the agencies are given the responsibility of placing completely vulnerable little humans in a lifelong dynamic - they've got this one chance to make it right
so this often devolves into a negative - looking for fault vs looking for hope
and bc it's a bureaucracy it calcifies into an institution - people hide behind the edifice to insulate themselves from the emotional anxiety/wreckage that day to day deciding the fate of both the children and adults can exact

we'd love for these govt agencies to be more human and responsive but that would take way more training and staffing than federal and local govts are willing to spend

 

[Rickboy]

In a way, this is good. The reason China was so good for foreign adoption was due to adoption being very unpopular among the Chinese populous. That has reversed course over the last couple of decades. Most, if not all, of these kids can now be placed with Chinese families.

I remember when we were going through the adoption process, China was an option that we were considering. We stopped considering them when they made a policy change that adoptive families had to prove they had assets of something like $75K on hand. Basically that was their way of proving you could financially support the child you were adopting. Back then I was just short of that amount so we concentrated on domestic adoption.

 

[Dago]

yeah, it's unfortunate, but I completely get why burdensome bureaucracy happens
the agencies are given the responsibility of placing completely vulnerable little humans in a lifelong dynamic - they've got this one chance to make it right
so this often devolves into a negative - looking for fault vs looking for hope
and bc it's a bureaucracy it calcifies into an institution - people hide behind the edifice to insulate themselves from the emotional anxiety/wreckage that day to day deciding the fate of both the children and adults can exact

we'd love for these govt agencies to be more human and responsive but that would take way more training and staffing than federal and local govts are willing to spend

Making sure a family is acceptable is fine, but the expense involved with the process is still ridiculous