I'm a little bit sickened that you don't know what...

2006-08-04T19:00:00.000-05:00

I'm a little bit sickened that you don't know what you are talking about having never adopted from another country. I would adopt from the U.S. if someone could guarantee me that the birth mother won't come back to claim the child later. We chose Guatemala because we wanted to bring a child from a 3rd-world country and give him a better life.

We did NOT just fill out an order form. Maybe the people you know did not go through a reputable agency. We had to complete hundreds of pages of paperwork, get approved by the state we live in, the US and Guatemala and then we were referred a child. We did not "Shop" for the child. We are still waiting to go down to pick him up. It is NOT as easy as it sounds.

Just because you are an adoptee you do not automatically understand the pain and agony a couple goes through to first, decide to adopt, and second to choose to go outside the U.S. to do so.

Some people I went to high school with have gone t...

2006-07-30T15:53:00.000-05:00

Some people I went to high school with have gone this route to adopt. They filled out an order form, and then flew down to Guatemala to pick out their baby. They literally shopped for it like you might buy a car or a sofa.

The situation for Romanian adoptions used to be the same way. I have 2 Romanian cousins thanks to the ease at which the post-Soviet-puppet-government gave away the youth of Romania for cash.

As an adoptee myself, I do understand the pains many couples go through to adopt a child. However, when there are thousands of children in this country waiting for good homes, I'm a little sickened by couples going overseas just to insure they get an infant, and not a toddler or an older child.

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