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What kinds of the underaged are legal to be adopted?

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Updated: Aug 21,2014 8:40 PM     

According to article 4 in Adopting Law of the People’s Republic of China, minors under the age of 14, as enumerated below, may be adopted:

(1)Orphans bereaved of parents, refers to those children whose biological parents have already died or have already been declared died by the court.

(2)Abandoned infants or children whose biological parents cannot be ascertained or found, refers to those children or infants who are abandoned by their biological parents or whose biological parents cannot be found.

(3)Children whose parents are unable to rear them due to unusual difficulties, refers to those children whose biological parents are in extreme poverty that do not have ability to rear them because of disability, serious illness, or some other reason.