Initially they asked their local children guidance center to let them foster a young child whom they can look after for a long period of time.

He and his partner were approved to become foster parents by their local authority in February 2020. The company employee received training to become a foster parent. LONG, FRUSTRATING WAIT AFTER GAINING APPROVAL Foster parents are approved by child guidance centers to raise those children until they become independent or can live with their birth parents again. The fostering system permits foster parents to raise children who cannot live in their own homes because they have no parents or guardians, or because they were abused, among other reasons. The news gave him hope that he, too, could have a child. It said that the couple was believed to be the first case in Japan of a male same-sex couple who had been approved to foster children and that they were already raising a foster child. The story said that the Osaka city government in Osaka Prefecture had approved a male same-sex couple as foster parents. Then he saw a news report in the spring of 2017. However, he didn’t know any relatives or acquaintances willing to put up a child for adoption. Under the “standard adoption arrangement,” applicants wanting to adopt younger children are typically allowed to adopt children of their relatives or acquaintances. He found out that he could become one through international surrogacy but the process is expensive.Īlthough Japan has an adoption system, a 'special adoption arrangement” is granted only for legally married couples. He hoped to raise a child of his own and meeting his current partner in autumn in 2016 didn’t change that desire. The company employee has always loved children. OSAKA APPROVES MALE SAME-SEX COUPLE FOR FOSTER CARE The prospective foster parents are a company employee in his 30s and his male partner, who is also in his 30s. It is believed that they are one of only a few male same-sex couples who have been approved to be foster parents in Japan. However, the bedroom has remained vacant for two years now, as the male same-sex couple desperately want to raise a child but are finding the process difficult. Planning for the future, they also bought a new study desk.

That way, they can see their foster child more often. NAGOYA-A couple living in the Tokai region has prepared a room in their home for a prospective foster child.įor the child's bedroom, they have chosen a room in their three-bedroom apartment that they have to pass through the living room to enter.

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