Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Current Haitian Adoption Law

The current Haitian constitutional law and its interpretation by IBESR (Haitian social services) allows families which meet the following criteria to adopt:
married couples with both parents age 35 or older and
Ten years of marriage or seven years of marriage and a minimum of three years cohabitation and
no more than three biological children (of both parents) living in the home
OR
infertile married couples (adopted children are accepted)
ten years of marriage or seven years of marriage and a minimum of three years cohabitation and
at least one parent over age 35
OR
single women age 35 or older and
no more than two biological children living in the home.

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