children for adoption:
(1) guardians
of an orphan;
(2) social
welfare institutions; or
(3) parents
unable to rear their children due to unusual difficulties.
Article
6 Adopters shall meet simultaneously the
following requirements:
(1) childless;
(2) capable
of rearing and educating the adoptee;
(3) suffering
no such disease as in medically regarded as unfit for
adopting a child; and
(4) having
reached the age of 30.
Article
7 A person may adopt a child belonging
to a collateral relative by blood of the same generation
and up to the third degree of kinship, irrespective of
the restrictions specified in Item (3), Article 4; Item
(3), Article 5 and Article 9 of this Law as well as the
restriction that the adoptee shall be under the age of
14.
An overseas
Chinese, in adopting a child belonging to a collateral
relative by blood of the same generation and up to the
third degree of kinship, may even be not subject to the
adopter's childless status.
Article
8 The adopter may adopt one child only,
male or female. |
