China Wants to Avoid LGBT Adoptions
May 2, 2006: China’s anti-gay ban on adoptions by single people is having an effect. And not a positive one for the children, either.
This is from the Boston Globe, read the whole story here:
Adoptions in Massachusetts have dropped by 6 percent, largely because of a sharp decline in the number of babies from China as well as a struggling local economy, according to one of the most sweeping looks at the state’s adoption patterns.
The University of Massachusetts Center for Adoption Research reported last week that 2,392 children were adopted through Massachusetts agencies in 2004 — 161 fewer than the year before.
The decline is largely the result of the Chinese government’s decision to severely limit the number of single people who can adopt, local adoption officials said. They say the Chinese government enforced these rules after being troubled by publicity in the late 1990s over gay parents in the United States raising Chinese babies. Now, agencies say, Chinese officials allow no more than 8 percent of the country’s children who are adopted to be placed with single people, and requires all applicants to sign statements that they are not gay or lesbian.