WHy would you (as a group) want to adopt kids from Haiti (or China or Romainia or etc, etc) when there are thousands and thousands of American children in desperate need of Foster care and homes?
There are children of all races, and in all parts of the US.
No harsh, just wondering....
These are children in a Lutheran orphanage - the idea is to get them to the US for medical care, education, and safety - especially the girls. The girls face horrific futures in that country.
Beyond what I just wrote, I dont know anything else. The group is not in my area, or even in my time zone.
As to why? I would think it is what these people think the Lord is leading them to do.
Have you tried to adopt in the US?? We went through training, and were told that only the MOST SEVERELY ABUSED children were available for adoption.... courts want to keep the families together as long as possible, don’t cha know. So these children live in h#ll holes for 3-5 years, then POSSIBLY you get a chance to adopt, only to find out that they found some mother’s uncle’s aunt’s girlfriend that now wants the kids (and the accompanying support money).
We were told to never let a female child being adopted sit on an adult man’s lap because the child probably had experienced XXX behavior and would act that out on the new dad. Nor should he give a female child a bath.
Private adoptions in the US are also a mess.....my friend actually had a baby for a week and the adoptive mother changed her mind. (already had 2 kids at home by 2 different dads alongside the newborn who had a different dad). Why shouldn’t the mom keep the baby?? Extra $$ for her, and another kid to abuse to continue the cycle.
US adoption laws now generally favor the rights of the birth parents over those of the child or the adoptive parents. Adopt overseas, and you don't have to worry about the birth mother showing up at Christmas or the birth father surfacing at the last moment to run a shakedown scam.
Most children in foster care in this country have not had their parent’s rights terminated and are not eliable for adoption. The ones who are are usually older children that are so damaged that only those with knowledge on how to deal with the special needs of the abused would be able to deal with them.With foreign adoptions you can find a child under the age of 2 who isn’t as damaged.
In addition to what previous posters have said, prospective white parents are practically forbidden from adopting black US children because black social workers don’t want black children raised by whites. Sadly, many black children in the US will never be adopted because of this idiotic policy.
If you do manage to find a pregnant teenager with a healthy baby who hasn't already killed her unborn child without parental notification at Planned Parenthood, and who hasn't been persuaded away from putting her baby up for adoption because of the availability of a web of comprehensive social services such as day care at her high school, you typically wind up having to come up with a pitch to sell yourself to said birth mother, who will choose among an average of four and sometimes as many as a dozen prospective adoptive parents.
When my wife and I adopted our son from Russia, on the other hand, there were something like 40,000 children waiting for families.
I am the mother of 3 girls internationally adopted. They had no hope for an education, decent health care, or even a foster family. And, the prospect for them as adults was less than savory. At the very least they were relegated to lives of poverty with no hope for the future. God led us to adopt these lovely girls, and we are glad to have had the opportunity.