Some couples have been waiting for more than a year, even though they are eager to adopt "difficult" or "complex" children many families couldn't cope with.
For Chinese élites who are eager to adopt lifestyles commensurate with their massive wealth, such status symbols lend a recognizable veneer of Western-style aristocracy.
Finally, if the people from West Virginia who were eager to adopt my son are reading this, I have some advice for them: There are plenty of kids out there who need loving homes.
"It really rankles that they can't get into important policy meetings," says an Estonian diplomat.In fact the centre-right coalitions of Sweden and Denmark, unlike their counterpart in Britain, are eager to adopt the euro.
The shift is being seen as a victory for the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, who has been eager to adopt a more sceptical approach to the cost of the high-speed line.
After he got back from Vietnam, he turned down all the invitations to political functions that poured in from his dad's old friends, who were eager to adopt him.
IBM hopes that police forces around the world, struggling with limited resources, will be eager to adopt a system which allows them to maximise the efficiency of officers on the beat.
And it would be impractical to introduce light-weaponry override systems in their current form for large numbers of soldiers or police, says Richard Rowe, a retired US Army major-general who oversaw the instruction and equipping of 550,000 Iraqi security recruits.Even with further technological advances, few armies will be eager to adopt such kit, Mr Kalbusch says.
This could be a big step toward empowering the entrepreneurs who are eager to adopt a baby chatbot and raise it like their own.
