By the way, reading the English-language China Daily front page today, my eyes were immediately drawn to the section titled "Do You Know?" because I like to know things.

There are three items in there, each chosen by the editors to be of interest to English speakers reading their newspaper.

Two are on adoption. One is on expatriate job seeking. Here, look:


So, reading the adoption requirements thing, even more odd (at first) is requirement #1, that adopters be childless. Because our kid wasn't the only one who came to China to meet a new sibling.... But, ah, the very last entry clears it up:

Orphans, disabled children or abandoned infants and children, who are raised in the social welfare institutes, and whose biological parents can not be ascertained or found, may be adopted irrespective of the restrictions that the adopter should be childless and adopt one child only.

And if you're wondering about homosexuals adopting from China, China's answer is "No." I suspect in practice, it's more of a don't-ask, don't-tell situation, but officially, "homosexual families are... not protected by laws."

Odd that these are the things we need to know, according to the editors of China Daily. But there you go.