How Do You Adopt A Child From Haiti?
The disaster in Haiti has touched everyone and there is new interest in how to adopt a child from Haiti. Certainly there will be even more orphans needing a home and parents to love them once the dust clears. Here’s how you can adopt a child from Haiti. Wait until government has been restored and the situation is stable. First priority in a disaster situation is to try and reunite families and avoid adopting out children with living parents. It’s very easy for fraudulent or erroneous adoptions to occur in a disaster and the prudent course is not to do anything hasty. A great interim step is to donate funds to Haitian orphan charities–see the Resources section for some links. Verify you meet Haiti’s requirements for adopting children. Couples must be married for 10 years and couples without children are given preference. Single parents may adopt. Recognize that adopting an infant is very unlikely. The youngest a child will be on the ‘gotcha date’ will be around 10 months. Older childre
