Health history of potential adoptive parents

As part of the physical for my homestudy I needed a doctor's statement regarding my life expectancy. Obviously, no doctor is going to be able to guarantee anything, but the point of it was to ensure that I was healthy enough to raise a child and more likely than not to live to do so. I would guess that, based on your health history, the homestudy agency would probably want greater reassurances from a doctor that you would be able to care for a child to adulthood. If you think that your health will not be a problem in raising a child, I would probably talk with whatever agency you are thinking of using and see what they have to say.

Ditto to the past poster regarding the physicals. We had to get physicals and then also a statement from the doctor indicating our physical ability to parent. We are with an agency doing a private infant domestic adoption. Not sure if you are interested in the foster to adopt or private adoption sector but I have had conversations with different professionals - social workers, agency directors, adoption facilitators who have indicated that for (private adoptions birth mothers) adoptive parents looking older is a big disadvantage v. having a disability. Our agency social worker told us a few months ago in passing conversation that they had successful matches with a couple whose husband had MS and another couple in which the woman (adoptive mother) had a some degree of cerebral palsy. I think it really goes down to the home study visits and the doctor physical and recommendation. Again, this is my knowledge and only within the private sector - not sure if it is the same with foster to adopt.