The China Center for Adoption Affairs has sent letters to adoption agencies announcing a new quota system. The quota system has two components, an overall quota and a severe limit on the fraction that can be single parents. Here are the details of the system that we have so far.
The overall quota for each China adoption agency will be set at the average of their China adoptions for the years 1998, 1999, and 2000.
For each agency only 5% of the placements will be to single parents. This is in contrast to the estimated 30% of current placements that go to single parents.
The text of this letter has now been posted and the complete text can be read below.
In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the persons
involved in the adoption, the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) has
formulated measures for receiving application documents for adoption
submitted by the adoption organizations in the year 2002 (December
1, 2001 to November 30, 2002). Now we would like to inform you of
the relevant items:
Explanation of the measures for receiving application documents
for adoption submitted by adoption organizations in the year 2002:
At present, the number of foreign application documents for adoption
has increased on a large scale, causing the CCAA's time frame for
processing the application documents for adoption to become longer and
longer, and as a result, the relevant documents for adoption by some
foreign adoptive families have expired and ceased to be effective. For
this, the adopters and the adoption organizations have urgently put
forward the request to shorten the time for examining and approving the
applications and reduce their waiting anxiety. In order to appropriately
resolve the problem mentioned above, the CCAA has decided to accept the
measures for checking and ratifying the quantity in receiving application
documents for adoption, so as the ensure that the foreign-related adoption
work can be developed healthily, orderly and steadily.
The measures for receiving the application documents for
adoption in the year 2002
We will take the actual amount of adoptions
by each adoption organization in the past three years-1998, 1999, and
2000-as the base to work out the annual average adoption amount,
whereby we can check and ratify the number of application documents for
adoptions each organization may submit in the year 2002.
If the number of application documents for adoption
submitted by the adoption organization exceeds our checked and ratified
number, we will return the excessive documents.
Requirements
(1)To make investigation on the adoptive families in all
seriousness and ensure the quality of the application documents for
adoption:
The adoption organizations should carry out investigation on and run
training courses for the adoptive families in all seriousness and take
everything for the children to heart as the point of departure to select
the families best suited to the growth of the Chinese children and protect
the legitimate rights and interests of the Chinese adopted children. In
the preparation of the application documents for adoption, the spirit of
standardizing the application documents for adoption, as advocated by the
CCAA, should continue to be carried through conscientiously so that the
quality of the application documents for adoption can be ensured. Of the
checked and ratified application documents for adoption,
the number of single families should not exceed 5%.
(2) To carry out the work of post-placement reports
conscientiously:
The carrying out of the work of post-placement reports constitutes
one of the important yardsticks on our evaluation of the working
capability and level on the part of the adoption organizations. You are
kindly requested to check earnestly whether the post-placement reports on
the children in 1999 and 2000 have all already been submitted to the CCAA,
and submit the undelivered post-placement reports before March 21, 2002.
The CCAA will suspend the reception of the application documents for
adoption submitted by the adoption organizations which have not completed
the work of post-placement reports after the deadline.
The China Center of Adoption Affairs, October 12, 2001
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