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  2. International adoption - Wikipedia

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    Adoption policies for each country vary widely. Information such as the age of the adoptive parents, financial status, educational level, marital status and history, number of dependent children in the house, sexual orientation, weight, psychological health, and ancestry are used by countries to determine what parents are eligible to adopt from that country.

  3. China Center of Adoption Affairs - Wikipedia

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    The China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) was established on June 24, 1996 [1] by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs. The CCAA is responsible for the welfare of children in the care of Child Welfare Institutes , domestic adoption, and international adoption. [2]

  4. International adoption of South Korean children - Wikipedia

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    Also, adoption agencies started to allow the adoption of South Koreans by people of color in the late 1990s to early 2000, and not just white people, including Korean-Americans. Such an example of this is the rapper GOWE , who was adopted by a Chinese-American family.

  5. Meanwhile, the number of international adoptions into the U.S. has declined significantly, peaking at 23,000 in 2004 and dropping to 1,785 in 2021. Those adoptions still offer lifelines to ...

  6. China stops foreign adoptions of its children after ... - AOL

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    China will no longer send children overseas for adoption, the government said, overturning a more than three-decade rule that was rooted in its once strict one-child policy. More than 160,000 ...

  7. Chinese adoptees say they feel conflicted after China ...

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    The slowed international adoption coincides with a 2016 reversal of China’s one-child policy, which limited each Chinese family to one child in order to control population growth.

  8. Holt International Children's Services - Wikipedia

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    The agency faced criticism in 2014 when a 3-year-old, Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan, was murdered by his adoptive father, Brian O'Callaghan. Before the adoption, Hyunsu's foster mother had requested to adopt him, but Holt did not allow it. Furthermore, his adoptive father had concealed his PTSD during the screening process.

  9. Adoption in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    Following the amendment, the ratio of domestic adoptions to international adoptions increased, but there were fewer adoptions overall. [2] This was a result of more children being abandoned instead of being put up for adoptions by parent(s). In 2010, before the Special Adoption Act was passed, there were 191 children abandoned in South Korea.