Ranee Mueller wrote:
>
> Considering we have about six different nationalities and possibly
> three races represented in our home, we're pretty open to any race or
> ethnicity. It still isn't as easy as you'd think. There aren't as many
> kids available for adoption as people think, even when you are willing
> to take in older kids (which we are).
That's a blatant lie. From adoptioninstitute.org:
"Nearly One Quarter of Foster Care Children Are Waiting for Adoptive
Families
In 1999, the latest year for which totals have been finalized, there
were about 581,000 children in foster care in the United States.[1]
Twenty-two percent of these children -- about 127,000 kids -- were
available for adoption.[2] "
127,000 kids is a lot of kids.
In 2003 the state of Washington placed over 1200 children in permanent
homes, and they state "more children (are) awaiting adoptive homes".
http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/ca/adopt/index.asp
There are plenty of children available in your state.
> If you go overseas, there are a
> lot of kids available, the complication there is the cost and time, and
> also two nation's worth of laws with which to comply.
Thousands of people do it every day. It's not complicated. It's just
expensive. Adoption from Korea or China takes on average about 18
months, some S. American countries are a bit quicker.
>Our kids'
> godparents who adopted through the foster care system had to wait over
> four years before a child was sent to them that was even eligible for
> adoption (since the goal is to get these kids back home with their birth
> parents).
They must have specified age, race, or some other dynamic - like
non-special needs. There are thousands of children waiting to be
placed, particularly special-needs children, older children and
children of color. many children are available immediately - these are
children whose parents have relinquished them at birth, are in jail, or
other institutions.
> It took about a year and a half after that to finalize the
> adoption process, partly because they kept changing the case worker on
> them.
Finalaization always takes a minimum of 6 months because that is the
waiting period in most states - the norm is a year or more.
>
> Regards,
> Ranee
You have been bellowing about your "plans to adopt" for at least 4
years now. The truth is, you know nothing about adoption as your post
has clearly demonstrated.
>From the time we signed with our agency until the day we were chosen by
his Birthmother, we waited exactly 7 months 3 weeks for our son - and
that includes the homestudy, and all qualifications being met,
including interstate compact paperwork. We were offered our first
placement in three months after signing with our agency; our friends
were placed with their son within three weeks. The adoption agencies
cannot find enough homes for African American infants- so much so that
they charge less for them.
Why don't you stick to something you know about because it's abundantly
clear you know nothing about adoption and have no plans to do it. You
simply use it to justify your continuous breeding. For Earth's sake:
learn to use a condom. The world has quite enough "little miracles"
without breeding more.
-L.
misc.kids.pregnancy was always too volatile for me.