If you have any questions, please contact me. I am NOT associated with any agency; just a mom who is interested in finding homes for orphan children, and currently in the process of adopting children from overseas.

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HERE is one church that is doing it without agency fees!

Thanks! Please keep this pro-life, pro-family, pro-children, tax credit (hehe!) message on the board!

And please email me for the name of a Christian group that is much cheaper than most agencies. They only work in Russia. Adopters must be professing Christians, and active members of a church.

I also know the name of a reputable agency who handles adoptions in China.

And don't think it's impossible to adopt here in the US. Our daughter was just a year and a half old when we adopted her. When people learn she is adopted, they immediately want to know her "nationality," as if American kids were impossible to adopt. In fact, she had been in foster care since her birth at a hospital just a short distance from our home. As for adoption fees, we paid only $5000 to the Catholic agency which did our home study.

If you are an employee of Wendy's, you get adoption services as a benefit.

That is because "Big Dave" was adopted...

Steven Ertelts pro-life news had a bit on the fact a Florida judge threw out (with prejudice) a lawsuit against the Florida "Choose Life" license plates, which benefits adoption.

The judge was very unhappy, and throwing it out with "prejudice" means the judge will not even consider hearing the case at any future date.

The Pro-Abortion folks claimed the license plates "promoted religion" because of the term "Choose Life".

If you are an employee of Wendy's, you get adoption services as a benefit.

That is so cool. I'd love to see the statistics on how that is working with his employees. I'm going to try to look it up later. What a great benefit!

I have been told by people who went to China to adopt that it was because of the age limit restrictions in the U.S.. They said you can't adopt here if you are past 40, but China will allow up to 45. Do you know if this is true?

Even though I have often been disappointed by our Republican congress, this is is the type of legislative output that makes the time and money I give each election seem well spent. The Demoncrats vote to subsidize abortions, the Republicans vote to subsidize adoption!

A good place to find out information about adoption is adoption message boards. Anyone interested in adopting from Russia, the Ukraine or surrounding countries will find many of their questions answered at www.frua.org That's "Friends of Russian and Ukranian Adoption (and surrounding countries)" FRUA has chapters around the U.S. that sponsor many adoption related, and Russian culture events. Other "countries" have similar groups, but I am unaware of the names.

Www.yahoogroups.org also has a number of adoption message boards. Some are totally independent and some are agency sponsored. The independent boards are a better place to start. Several are country specific. "Paperchase 2000" at yahoogroups is a good place to ask questions Chinese adoptions.

I highly recommend doing a thorough investigation before signing on with any agency or group doing foreign adoptions....doing any kind of adoptions, for that matter. There are a number of highly ethical people involved in adoption, and also a number of highly UNETHICAL crooks.

Different countries have different requirements regarding marital status, age of parents, and number of children already in the home. Some countries allow multiple adoptions, and some don't.

Won't all of you consider whether or not you could include a(nother) little person in your life?

Yes! (It certainly would have been nice if they would have made the increased credit retroactive to this year, though! :)

They said you can't adopt here if you are past 40 . . .

That's a rule of thumb for adoption placement workers rather than a rule of law. Another rule of thumb is the so-called "50-year rule": You can't adopt anybody who is more than 50 years younger than you are. In our own case, my wife and I were both over 45, but we made it under the 50-year limit. We also had a track record as foster parents for the agency, and that helped make our case.

"That's a rule of thumb for adoption placement workers rather than a rule of law."

Yes! Prospective adoptive parents really do need to compare agency requirements. Some agencies put requirements on top of the country requirements.

It would be wonderful if all kids had a mother AND a father who would be young enough to see their grandchildren grow up. However, a single parent or an "older" couple can certainly love a child just as much as the normal "profiled" couple. Older parents are "usually" more stable and financially secure, as well.

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I'll be gone most of the day. I'd like for this thread to make it to the board every day of November, if possible. Please help. :)