10 Easiest Countries to Adopt a Child

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Today we are going to take a look at the 10 easiest countries to adopt a child. Click to skip our introduction and methodology and jump to the 5 Easiest Countries to Adopt a Child.

Adopting a child is a life-changing step. At first, it’s inevitable for you to check out your motivations before going forward. What are your reason for adopting? From the beginning to the end, intercountry adaption is not an easy thing. Are you ready to travel to the destination country, couple of times if necessary?

Governments have a lot of requirements for adopting a child, such as marital status, parental age, age gap, your health, net income, number of children at home, among others. Then there’s the question of your future child’s characteristics. You will need to be very honest to yourself and decide what you can accept and tolerate, and what not.

In order to compile this list of the easiest countries to adopt a child, we have consulted the sites of Adoption.org and Adoption.com. We chose the countries where most children were adopted from, and then ranked them by checking if they are present in the Hague Convention country or not. Naturally, Hague Convention countries are ranked higher, as during adopting process you are highly protected.

Let’s see the 10 easiest countries to adopt a child, starting with number 10:

10. Taiwan

Hague Adoption Convention Country? No

Number of children adopted from the US in 2016: 59

Taiwan is the first country where you can easily a child from. Prospective parents must be  20 years older than the adoptive child. If they are married, one of them has to be 20 years older the other one can be 16 years older. .

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