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What do you think about international adoption?
Q. I am currently in the proces of adopting a child from China. Recently, there has been a lot of debate regarding international adoption. A lot of people ask why I am adopting from another country when there are kids here that need to be adopted. I feel the system in the US is too hard to deal with and that the adoptive parents do not have as many rights as the birthmother. She can decide to not terminate parental rights at any time. It should be her perrogative, but I don't want to have a failed placement. That's why I've chosen international adoption. What's your opinion? My husband does not want to foster. I considered that in the beginning, but respect his decision. Not everybody is cut out to be a foster parent. You have to be… [cont.]
Asked by Angela M - Sat Jan 13 01:24:49 2007 - - 15 Answers - 1 Comments

A. First off I want to say good luck and that adoption of any kind is great. Also Chinesse babies are adorable! Now...I am a preschool teacher for under privlaged kids (poor, foster, adopted, and split home). I am a very strong believer in American adoption, when I am ready I am adopting from the US instead of having my own. Untill people are with the system they really don't understand exactly how many babies, toddlers, and children are in America that are in need of love and family. Unfortunatly our system doesn't screen the foster parents great and dont keep up on them great. I have seen MANY children that are in foster homes, not being taken care of well and with very mean foster parents in homes that the children should never be placed… [cont.]
Answered by softball_whitney_04 - Sat Jan 13 03:27:00 2007

What is the advantages of the Intercultural adoption and disadvantages of intercultural adoption?
Q. Using example from the "stolen generation" and overseas adoption to support your arguments.
Asked by steven_nguyen_8x - Fri Mar 7 03:13:51 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I was under the impression that the Stolen Generation refers to Aboriginal Adoptees in Australia. Please correct me if I'm wrong. As a bi-racial adoptee myself who was raised by all white parents, I lost most of my culture. That brought HUGE disadvantages to me. I felt like I was white and didn't like my olive skin. I didn't know my families multiple languages, I didn't know even where or who I came from. It was hard to do something as simple as look in the mirror. The disadvantages would be: loss of heritage loss of language loss of religion loss of sense of self loss of genetic / cultural mirroring I think that when adopted within ones culture, by a family who gets it you can learn about your people. The advantages could possibly… [cont.]
Answered by Gershom - Fri Mar 7 13:05:58 2008

How do you start the adoption process?
Q. We have been thinking about adoption for a year and have decided that it is time. Are biggest question is how do we get it started? We do not know should we go through a state agency or a private adoption agency?
Asked by prettyinpink - Sat Nov 22 21:30:05 2008 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. (I"m assuming you're in the US)...If you want a newborn you have to do domestic private adoption in most cases. Foster care-adopt does have newborns but very few (same for very young kids). If you want a infant/toddler you can do international adoption. For these you will need a private agency also. If you want an older child (these are the kids needing homes the most) foster care is the best place. This is where the state agencies are involved. We did research into all before adopting. We ended up doing domestic/newborn, but likely will adopt later from foster care. The wait for domestic is unpredictable, but in our case it was less than one year. This is because the natural mother chooses the family, and you can't predict when you… [cont.]
Answered by cmc - Sun Nov 23 02:00:16 2008