Preparing for an international adoption is gruelling. There is much talk of all the paperwork, but what it really means, your life has to be in a certain place of stability before you can succeed in completing your paperwork. Perhaps it's the same for everyone, but the 1st adoption is so all-consuming, that inevitably you get behind, really really behind, on what seems unimportant - like paperwork. Having spent the past 6 months getting things more or less up to date, I feel I can proceed with my paperwork. Interestingly, the new agency I am working with in Nevada requires that all the paperwork be completed before you will be assigned a social worker. Previously, you started on the paperwork and the social worker visits at the same time, so that motivated you to keep going on the paperwork part even more.
When I think it's silly to keep up this blog, however erratically I have time to post any news, I know it is worth it since I have been messaged many times by potential adopters who seek more information, insight and encouragement. It gives me great pleasure to be a tiny source of help to people in the process. No matter how discouraging the news is, like with CARA shutting down its program again so that it is not accepting any more applications, those of us who are determined know that it is even more important to keep adopting. CARA is putting up more hurdles. Orphanages claim to have less kids available - for the process. But anyone who really knows the life of 90-something percent of Indians living in dire poverty, we know the kids are there. And they need us.
International adoptions from India into the US are declining. If things continue as they are, numbers will shrink even more. Here is what the US Government numbers look like:
It's a shame.
When I think it's silly to keep up this blog, however erratically I have time to post any news, I know it is worth it since I have been messaged many times by potential adopters who seek more information, insight and encouragement. It gives me great pleasure to be a tiny source of help to people in the process. No matter how discouraging the news is, like with CARA shutting down its program again so that it is not accepting any more applications, those of us who are determined know that it is even more important to keep adopting. CARA is putting up more hurdles. Orphanages claim to have less kids available - for the process. But anyone who really knows the life of 90-something percent of Indians living in dire poverty, we know the kids are there. And they need us.
International adoptions from India into the US are declining. If things continue as they are, numbers will shrink even more. Here is what the US Government numbers look like:
| 2011 | 226 |
| 2010 | 241 |
| 2009 | 297 |
| 2008 | 308 |
| 2007 | 411 |
| 2006 | 319 |
| 2005 | 323 |
| 2004 | 406 |
| 2003 | 473 |
| 2002 | 461 |
| 2001 | 542 |
| 2000 | 500 |
| 1999 | 472 |
It's a shame.
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