source: Ji'nan times Author: Yao Dongshu
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the Ministry of Civil Affairs said that the next step will promote the improvement of the relevant legal system for children's assistance and to encourage the people to adopt the orphans. Ji'nan civil affairs department related personage discloses, the family adoption child's audit procedure and so on procedure, at present all by the civil affairs department manages by oneself. Influenced by factors such as concept and adoption conditions, the situation of successful adoption of handicapped children by foreign families is more than that of domestic families.
Ji'nan now there is no county child welfare home
"there is no special child social welfare institution in most counties of the country, and there are only one family in Ji'nan children's welfare home in the four counties of the Fifth District of Ji'nan. At present, the hospital is responsible for more than 400 orphans and disabled children. These children are orphans and abandoned children who can not find guardians, guardians can not be raised or adopted. " Ji'nan Children Welfare Institute staff introduced, because the orphans abandoned baby discovery, reporting, transfer network system is not sound, children's social welfare institutions are not perfect and other reasons, the orphans in the society are still the majority of orphans.
it is understood that there are 615 thousand minors who are less than 18 years old who lose their parents or find their parents. Among them, 109 thousand orphans were orphaned by the welfare institutions of the Civil Affairs Department, and the rest of the orphans were raised by relatives, other guardians and some individuals and private institutions. The law stipulates that the decentralization of orphans and abandoned infants is a combination of decentralization and centralized nurture, in which the welfare institutions of the civil affairs department are responsible for the guarantee of the bottom of the pocket, and the adoption of individual and civil institutions is still "illegal".
9 day, the Ministry of civil affairs publicly responded to the fire of 7 orphans and abandoned infants in Lankao, Henan, indicating that the incident exposes the shortcomings and problems of the children's assistance and protection system in China, and will promote the improvement of the relevant legal systems and encourage the adoption of the citizens. In addition, the Ministry of civil affairs will also promote the introduction of children's social welfare regulations, and build a number of child welfare institutions in large population counties, and other counties in the social welfare center to build the children's Welfare Department to improve the ability of orphans to stay and nurture.
Adoption of money more than 30 thousand a lot of families step back
"now many families have no children, want to get to welfare homes to adopt children, economic strength of the family is also a lot. But 98% of the children adopted by the welfare home are disabled and mentally retarded, and many families choose to give up after understanding the situation, and the number of successful adoption of these children is very few. " Pan Yan, deputy director of the Ji'nan children's Welfare Institute, introduced.
under the adoption law revised in 1998, the following minors under fourteen years of age can be adopted: orphans of parents, abandoned babies and children who do not have parents, and children with special difficulties and inability to be raised by their parents. In addition, the adopter should have the following conditions: children without children; the ability to foster education to be adopted by the adopter; the age of 30 years old, without the medical opinion that the child should not be adopted.
in addition, the Civil Affairs Department said that the procedures for adopting orphans in ordinary families are now handled by the civil affairs department. In order to determine legal adoptive relationship, there must be a foster person. This requires the adopter to issue a certificate of delivery to the welfare institution. According to people in the know, including donations, registration fees, notice fees, residence registration fees, service fees, and so on, the charge standard before and after adoption procedures mainly refer to the National Adoption Center for foreigners to adopt Chinese children, about 35 thousand yuan. The "high threshold" for legal adoption of orphans is a deterrent to many families.
about 10 thousand children are adopted by Americans each year to be adopted by
"because of the differences in ideas and cultures, the situation of successful adoption by foreign families for orphans and mentally retarded children is much more. More foreigners will not change their original intention to adopt their children because of their physical and mental handicap. Introduction of the staff of the Ji'nan children's Welfare Institute.
China has adopted relations with 17 countries. At present, China is the largest child care provider in the United States. Since 1992, a total of 120 thousand Chinese children have been adopted by Americans, and 10 thousand children have entered the United States every year during the peak period. In accordance with the provisions of the adoption law, foreign adopters should provide proof of age, marriage, occupation, property, health and other conditions, and are certified by the Chinese Embassy in the country. Finally, the civil administration department of the provincial people's government should be registered in person to succeed in adoption.