[Hamufiona]

Hi all adoptive parents,

are you american?
do you have any adopted child from china?
if so, i really need your great help for helping me sharing your own experience and filling in this questionnaire for my research project.

I am currently a student at the University of Portsmouth, UK. I am conducting research on the challenges transracial adoptive families may face. The following questionnaire is designed to measure your attitudes about raising an adopted child who is from China. Your participation will aid in the understanding of transracial adoption experiences. There are no right or wrong answers, so please answer as honestly as possible. All responses are confidential. The data collected is used only for research purposes and no response will be individually identified. This questionnaire will only take you about 5 minutes to fill in.

just simply check the link as below, it will brings you to the questionnaire.


Questionnaire Name Transracial Adoptive Parenting Research
Link URL http://www.my3q.com/go.php?url=hamufiona/11758


thanks so much.

Cheers, Fiona

[An Song Tao]

I am not sure what kind of response you will get from the members here, but I would like to make a few suggestions that might help. First, the adoption community has been the victim of much misinterpretation and abuse by the media and other groups. Because of this, some may be hesitant to help anyone without more information on who you are, what university you are with, any commercial or religious affiliations you may have, and more information on your study (hypothesis, expectations, how it will be used - published, term paper, thesis, dissertation, etc.).





Second, some of the wording in your questionnaire could use some adjustment. For example, #8(14) asking if your child considers themselves to be Chinese or American could use some other options (Chinese-American, both, other-specify). Just some thoughts.

[SofiasMom]

Question #15 is also awkwardly worded.

[stephdpenn]

On the income question, China requires even a single person to make at least $30,000 a year to adopt.
The income guidelines are $10,000 per person in the home including the adoptive child-to-be with a min. $30,000 for all single adoptions.

I am almost positive that is right.

[twoinblue]

Please tell me why a college in the UK is doing adoption research on Americans?

[sak9645]

China does NOT have official minimum income requirements. It indicates that it wants to see parents who have a stable income and live within it, with manageable debt and a little "put away" for emergencies.

Adoption agencies interpret Chinese policies in different ways. Some say "$10K per person in the household, plus $10K for the child to be adopted." Some say "$30K per single/couple plus $10K for each child in the household and $10K for the child to be adopted."

Some have much higher threshholds, because they tend to receive families who live in high cost parts of the U.S. where a $30K income would be almost impossible to live on.

And some make judgments on a case by case basis. For example, if a person is fairly low in income, but has almost no debt, lives in a low-cost area, and possibly has some special circumstances (such as rent-free housing provided by employer), the agency will accept the person.

The same is true with regard to income requirements for families requesting twins. All that China says is that the family should have "above average" income. Obviously, it realizes that raising two kids isn't cheap.

But there are some agencies that set minimum requirements. For example, I've heard of agencies saying that parents must earn $100K to adopt twins, even though plenty of parents have been granted twins without anywhere near this income. And I've heard lots of other examples of this sort.

Sharon