But that family has no such protections if it tries to adopt from such non-Hague countries as Ethiopia or Nepal, both rife with troubling allegations about their adoptions.
"I don't know if it was important to adopt from New Orleans, but it was important to adopt from the U.S.," she said.
Although no one will go on record saying they oppose international adoption, a lot of organizations are contributing indirectly to its demise, by pursuing policies that make it much harder to adopt from abroad.
"It meanders along, it is failing to keep pace with the number of children cleared for adoption, and it drives many outstanding couples to adopt from abroad.
She loves to push up from her tummy!" To learn more about any of these children, she continues, meant filling out the agency questionnaire: First it asked if you wanted to adopt from American foster care or from one of the top five donor countries: Russia, China, South Korea, Guatemala, Vietnam … Then you had the fun of checking the box for Boy or Girl.
She drove the bus on this thing from the beginning, she knew it was going to be right, she knew Haiti was the right place to adopt from, because it was the only place we had a personal connection to of all the sending countries, she knew that Holt was the way to go, and she knew that I was going to come around to it.
It may soon be about to happen to families hoping to adopt from Ethiopia.
When it comes to adopting from a domestic agency, open adoptions are the most popular route.
We opted to adopt from Russia almost by default.
She decided to adopt from Malawi.
