I have been doing a lot of surfing and checking out other adoption blogs and adoption forums. It is really interesting and exciting to see so many people in the same situation that we are and some that are further along or have their awaited child already. I found a forum that an adoptive family posted a discussion on international adoption. It was really good to see many peoples ideas and some that weren’t very positive.
This family had a family member that was trying to support them and at the same time asking why they didn’t choose to adopt from the US or foster adopt. There were many people that seemed angry and vocal about their feelings.
What I found is there are many people that want to foster and hope to be able to adopt that child. Also that Adoption in the US is very difficult. I know a friend of the family just adopted and my sister also and had everything run quickly and with no problems. Checking out this blog ,many people found that they were willing to adopt children with minor disabilities and most of the time, they waited years with no child.
Sometimes it sound like if the social worker wants a child to stay in a certain state they can decide, that you won’t be able to adopt that child. I also heard of families wanting to adopt a older child and that child being fostered to another family and then let out of the system when they were 19 and never being adopted.
I think there are issues in the foster care system and the adoption system. Things that don’t seem right to the children in question and the families willing to love them and keep them. Is it better to have a system that has flaws and issues then no system? I think not. I wish the adoption system would just make sure a family qualifies to be a safe home and would take much of the expense out of it. Also the time these families have to wait and the children.
I don’t think it is fair for people to judge others decisions. We thought of fostering at some point and didn’t feel like it was right for us. I don’t know if I would handle the child possibly being a part of your family for a short time and then gone, out of you life. We also thought of our children, how would that affect them. I think there are some amazing people out there that God has gifted with this ability to love a child and let them go.
We also feel like God birthed something in our heart for the children in orphanages that hardly have enough food every day. That have no heat, no water, no chance. Even though it may be more money to adopt from another country, these children need to be adopted. They have no chance without loving parents taking them home.
I thank the Lord that he puts people out there to adopt from the US and from other countries. That there are also people that open their hearts and homes to foster children also. We need all of them to do what they are called too. I hope people can get past judging and just do what is right for them.
Total Adoptions to the United States
*NOTE: All statistics given correspond with the U.S. Government fiscal year, which begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. For example: Adoption statistics for 2008 = Number of adoptions from October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008.
Fiscal Year 2008 Adoption Statistics
FY 2008 | FY 2007 | FY 2006 | FY 2005 | FY 2004 | |
1 | Guatemala4,123 | China5,453 | China6,493 | China7,906 | China7,044 |
2 | China3,909 | Guatemala4,728 | Guatemala4,135 | Russia4,639 | Russia5,865 |
3 | Russia1,861 | Russia2,310 | Russia3,706 | Guatemala3,783 | Guatemala3,264 |
4 | Ethiopia1,725 | Ethiopia1,255 | South Korea1,376 | South Korea1,630 | South Korea1,716 |
5 | South Korea1,065 | South Korea939 | Ethiopia732 | Ukraine821 | Kazakhstan826 |
6 | Vietnam751 | Vietnam828 | Kazakhstan587 | Kazakhstan755 | Ukraine723 |
7 | Ukraine457 | Ukraine606 | Ukraine460 | Ethiopia441 | India406 |
8 | Kazakhstan380 | Kazakhstan540 | Liberia353 | India323 | Haiti356 |
9 | India307 | India416 | Colombia344 | Colombia291 | Ethiopia289 |
10 | Colombia306 | Liberia314 | India320 | Philippines271 | Colombia287 |
11 | Haiti302 | Colombia310 | Haiti309 | Haiti234 | Belarus202 |
12 | Philippines291 | Philippines265 | Philippines245 | Liberia183 | Philippines196 |
13 | Taiwan267 | Haiti190 | Taiwan187 | Taiwan141 | Bulgaria110 |
14 | Liberia249 | Taiwan184 | Vietnam163 | Mexico88 | Poland102 |
15 | Nigeria148 | Mexico89 | Mexico70 | Poland73 | Mexico89 |
16 | Mexico103 | Poland84 | Poland67 | Thailand72 | Liberia86 |
17 | Ghana101 | Thailand67 | Brazil66 | Brazil66 | Nepal73 |
18 | Kyrgyzstan78 | Kyrgyzstan61 | Nepal66 | Nigeria65 | Nigeria71 |
19 | Poland77 | Brazil55 | Nigeria62 | Jamaica63 | Brazil69 |
20 | Thailand59 | Uganda54 | Thailand56 | Nepal62 | Thailand69 |
And I pray the you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints,to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Eph 3:17-19
More to come later!
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