[SCalGal]

"Family's pay 10s of thousands of dollars to go overseas just to make sure they adopt a child and it cannot be taken away.... Baby Jessica probably did more to hurt domestic adoption than anything I can think of."

This is so true. My cousin went overseas to adopt her son, for that reason alone.

[schu]

Absolutely. We have 2 beautiful adopted daughters from China and the initial decision on where to go was primarliy on the "no visitation" or "can't change my mind" issue. The US process for adoption is a nightmare, most who look at it reject it for the expense, hassle, wait and uncertainty of it all.

The liberalization of the adoption laws, where the parents "rights" supercede the true needs of the child have made lifetime orphans out of many children who not so long ago would have been adopted and happy.