[Zhang Fei]

Both domestic and international adoptions are fairly expensive endeavors, with amounts ranging from $30K to $50K cited by various websites. Some couples prefer international adoptions because legally-speaking, there is no chance of the birth parents reclaiming the adopted child, something that has been at the center of heart-wrenching tugs-of-war in a number of domestic adoptions. The State Department has now made international adoptions more difficult and expensive than it already was.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Mike Pompeo really needs to clean house here.

[Controlling Legal Authority]

There has been a sharp downturn in international adoptions the past few years. This might be the nail in the coffin.

[BwanaNdege]

Mrs. BN & I looked into adopting the three youngest children of our neighbor in Belize after she’d died of cancer. We were told we were too old - 64 & 65 at the time.

Leftists/Bureaucrats want to kill babies and to make it extremely difficult & expensive to adopt those whom they failed to kill.

“We are the Party of compassion!” “It’s for the children!”

[Sacajaweau]

I believe Obama was playing games with Russia at the time the new regulations came about...a tit for tat. And Obama was the bas**** in the game.

[1Old Pro]

The State Department should be renamed The Deep State Department.

[livius]

The whole point of making adoption, whether foreign or domestic, more difficult is to make abortion seem like the only “option.” The left hates adoption.

The vast majority of foreign adoptions work out just fine, just like the vast majority of adoptions in general, but that doesn’t fit the leftist plan.

[upchuck]

State is infested with deeply embedded swampers. It is way past time for Sec. Pompeo needs to get busy and fire a whole bunch of people. It has been 18 months since President Trump filled the office. Plenty of time to get it done.

These deep staters are sitting on their butts laughing their asses off at us. Needs to come to a screeching halt.

[papertyger]

Some couples prefer international adoptions because legally-speaking, there is no chance of the birth parents reclaiming the adopted child, something that has been at the center of heart-wrenching tugs-of-war in a number of domestic adoptions.

This was THE decisive factor for why my family adopted from China. A few years previously one of THE top tier lawyers in our city lost their child after almost three years of parenting. So as a prospective parent myself, I had to ask myself "who was paying for this legal action against a lawyer that strikes fear in the hearts of those he challenges in court?"

No Thanks. I'll go elsewhere.