3. In calculating the marriage lasting time for PAPs, the time living together
before their marriage can be included. When calculating the number of
divorces, widow and remarriage after divorce are not included.
III. Health Conditions
The PAPs should be physically and mentally fit, with the ability to raise
and educate the adoptee, but without any of the following conditions:
(1) Intellectual disability;
(2) HIV positive, or infectious disease that is actively contagious;
(3) Schizophrenia;
(4) Mental disorder including mania, depression, bipolar affective disorder,
anxiety and phobia, etc. PAP(s) with minor symptoms and are under good
control by taking medicine, assessed by a psychological professional as
having no effects on their normal work and life and fit to care and educate
the adoptee, will be exempt from this limitation;
(5) Binocular blindness, binocular low vision or monocular blindness with
no ocular prosthesis;
(6) Severe facial deformation;
(7) Binaural hearing loss or language function loss; PAPs who adopt children
with identical conditions, or with one party of a couple healthy will
be exempt from this limitation;
(8) Non-function or dysfunction of limbs or trunk caused by impairment,
incomplete limb, paralysis or deformation;
(9) Diseases that require long-term treatment, and have bad prognosis which
will affect PAPs' child care ability such as lupus, nephrosis, epilepsy,
multiple sclerosis, etc.; In a couple adoption, if one party is completely
healthy and the other suffers any of such diseases but is under good control
after treatment, they will be exempt from this limitation if they can
provide a doctor's note to attest that the illness has no effects
on their normal work and life and fit for caring the adoptee;
(10) Skin cancer, thyroid cancer, breast cancer and testicular cancer that
has been cured for less than 3 years; other kinds of cancer or malignant
tumor that has been cured less than 5 years;