From Carrie Craft,
Your Guide to Adoption / Foster Care.
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Changes to the China Adoption program will take effect in May 2007. Some of the new guidelines are as follows:

• Married couples who have been married for at least 2 years.
• Must be between the ages of 30 and 44 years old to adopt babies around 1 year old.
• No single parent adoptions.
• Must have a Body Mass Index, a measure of obesity, of no more than 40.
• Adoptive parents must be between the ages of 30 and 50.
• Prospective parents up to age 55 will be considered for special needs children.
• Prospective parents must not be taking medications for psychiatric conditions including depression or anxiety.
• Adoptive parents with a "severe facial deformity" will not be considered.
• Prospective parents who are wheelchair dependent will not be considered.