ABSTRACT
This chapter draws attention to data regarding special needs adoption, parents who are adopting more than one child, and those who are adopting with their own biological children. Many adoptive parents were highly educated people. While Kirk argued that adoption involved novel coping, adopters may have some philosophical or spiritual support to help them go through this life long commitment. Nevertheless, with the advent of 1997, when some expatriate families left Hong Kang, the ethnicity profile of adopters changed. The increase of ethnic Chinese adoptive parents may be attributed to the more positive image of adoption built among the local Chinese community by conscious promotion of the Adoption Unit, Social Welfare Department. Quite different from the adoptive parents, very few birth parents were professional, administrative and managerial workers. Regarding income, probably it is a policy of the Social Welfare Department to ensure financial stability of adoptive parents; most adopters have a generally satisfactory income level.
