adopting chinese babies.

China has recently created stricter adoption regulations. "The new regulations, which are expected to start this year, will prohibit many families from adopting a Chinese baby. The laws set perimeters on who can adopt: Requiring that they be married, worth more than $80,000, and not be obese, among other requirements" ("It's a Wonderful, Colorful Life"). Other requirements are just as ridiculous; for example, people with face deformities are denied consideration.

I started--once again--pondering about adoption this morning when I read this except from ZGBriefs:

No Harm in Singles Adopting Chinese Babies: Study (March 31, 2007, Reuters)

A single woman in the United States can raise a child adopted from China just as well as a married couple, a study showed on Saturday, countering claims by Beijing that single parenting is bad for Chinese children. Dr. Tony Xing Tan, a psychologist at the University of South Florida, compared 144 Chinese girls aged 1-1/2 to 11 years old adopted by 126 single-mother families, with 509 Chinese girls adopted by 415 families with two parents. "Overall, the present study found no evidence that the adjustment of the adoptees from single-parent families differed from their peers from dual-parent families," Tan said in his study, presented on Saturday in Boston. China ruled in 2001 that only 5 percent of Chinese children could be adopted into single-parent families, cutting the quota from 25 percent to 30 percent on grounds it "would be best for the adopted children to live in an adoptive family with both parents," said Tan, quoting Chinese state policy.

The current adoption policies coupled with this inane study are ludicrous. Anyone who knows anything about Chinese orphanages should raise an outcry over such inanity. A Chinese baby would have a much better life being raised by deformed, homosexual midgets than being placed on a hillside or dying room.

A country that continually struggles with overpopulation, poverty, and humanitarian crises should not be creating stricter adoption regulations; it should provide these "un-wanted" babies a miracle: adoption.