April 15th, 2009

By this time, adoption ideas were coming fast and furious. Domestic? International? We started looking into each. We were put off by the fact that most domestic adoptions are done through foster care placement. This is great for the kids, but not so much for parents who just want to adopt and be done with it. It would require that we become foster parents and then wait for an adoptable child to come along. Foster parents are given first choice in the state of Ohio, so the only children that come up for adoption by non foster parents are older children, usually with a lengthy list of problems and issues. We decided that we didn't want to become foster parents (a most noble thing, but not for us) and we didn't want an older child with a lot of baggage.