Adopt from China

Risks

We will gladly assist you with state, federal and Peoples' Republic of China legal and social work associated with applying to the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) for a child. Although problems with dossiers are extremely rare, once received at the CCAA, we cannot guarantee a particular result with respect to that application. Any sovereign nation exercises its own discretion with respect to adoption applications, can establish new guidelines as to the type of child which is adoptable or the type of couple that can adopt, can partially close its program, or can even stop international adoptions altogether.

Additionally, medical and/or developmental delays may exist in internationally adopted children, including children adopted from China. Orphanage medical reports will be brief and less sophisticated generally than medical reports prepared in the United States. We did not prepare these reports and cannot guarantee their contents.

We suggest that adoptive parents talk to as many other couples who have completed the adoption process as possible and we predict that you will find very positive responses to health questions, but please check for yourself the experiences of others.

Finally, institutionalized children may have experienced some developmental delays that are almost unavoidable. These precious children may not have been nurtured as you will nurture them, given the generally understaffed and under-funded status that most orphanages find themselves in.

Some of the problems that can possibly arise and have arisen in children adopted from China are

• scars,
• milk intolerance,
• low or high grade heart murmur,
• defective heart valve that requires surgery,
• rickets,
• scabies,
• crossed eyes,
• cleft lip and/or cleft palette,
• hepatitis A, B or C,
• parasitic infection,
• colds and pneumonia,
• attachment delays or problems,
• under stimulation/delayed development,
• undiagnosed congenital problems,
• effects of institutionalization,
• vision and hearing problems, and
• malnutrition.

By proceeding with A Helping Hand, families certify that they have considered the risks mentioned about and as such assume all health, developmental or governmental risks associated with the adoption.

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