Please bare in mind that I am no expert just an ordinary young adopted woman.
Japan has not been spared from overseas adoption but they are by far not giving up as many children as Korea. In fact it is quit complicated to adopt a Japanese child. For instance you must have been married for a minimum of 3 years and the prospective parents cannot be over 40 years old. Single parent adoptions is only considered after careful examination of each case. The most likely children to end up with adoption parents are children of 4 years or older and also children who require special care.
There is not much information on domestic adoption in Japan available at the moment. Yet it seems they are better of taking care of their children in need. Domestic adoption is only possible to be accepted if the parents live in Japan… There seems to people of other nationalities moving to Japan in order to qualify for domestic adoption in Japan and once they are accepted and offered a child and process has ended. The parents usually moves back to their native country. Generally speaking prospective adoptive parents (if they are married) might be able to apply for adoption if one of them is a Japanese citizen with a long-lasting connection to Japan.
US couples are able to apply for adoption of children up to six years given that they can fulfill all the needed requirements. Adoptive parents must be at least 25 and have a stable employment and stable financial situation as well.
There are two types of adoption for overseas adoption in Japan. They are regular adoption and special adoption.
- Regular adoption is when the adoptive child is related by blood to their new parents and continued contact with the birth parents or family is not hindered. The prospective adoptive parents are granted fulltime custody.
- Special adoption is cases where the adoptive parents have no biological connection to the child in question. This usually means that continued contact with birth family is cut off.
If you are granted temporary custody of a child you are required to be able to stay in Japan for at least a year to sort out all judical requirements. That is why I suppose international Japanese adoption is less common.
Who are the Japanese children that are most likrly to be adopted?
According to Japanese law any child that are left unprotected by for instance being an orphan. Abandoned at birth or as an infant. A child born out of wedlock or a child with parents that are unable to provide for them. It also includes children that are being abused. In the 90s about 400 children was apted by US citizens, wereas 104000 children was internationally adopted in 1986 just the US.
What do you think of the requirements? Would you consider adopting a Japanese child? Do you favor and support adoption?
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