LilMtnCbn
10-31-2003, 07:19 AM
And another from the series:
http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2003/102003/10312003/1135274
It's not 'either or': Foreign AND domestic orphans need loving homes
Date published: 10/31/2003
I am a member of one of the local families that is trying to adopt children
from Moldova. I already have two adopted children, one of which was born and
adopted here in the United States.
The adoption laws in the United States are strict, but not much more so than
elsewhere. It took a year and four months to adopt our first child from El
Salvador and approximately $18,000 between the years 1989 and 1990. The primary
problem those days was the civil war that was going on in that country. Most of
the money was for U.S. costs.
Our second child was adopted here in this country. It took about four months
and the cost was less than $2,000. Most of the costs in our present adoption
process is for the U.S. adoption agency, not for any overseas expense.
Adoption cost and time varies depending on the circumstances of each case.
There is a great difference between adopting from a foster-care system and from
an orphanage. This difference comes from the way the kids are treated and from
the amount of information that exists for the children.
We in the United States are fortunate to have a foster-care system that allows
kids to grow in a healthy family environment and to not be treated as simply a
number. Unfortunately, all over the world, kids in orphanages, or orphans not
in orphanages, don't have the privilege of having a balanced living existence
where their basic needs are met.
I agree we should care for our own country's orphans, but we should also
consider the needs of foreign orphans and ask God to guide us when making these
choices.
Julio Zorri Berrios
http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2003/102003/10312003/1135274
It's not 'either or': Foreign AND domestic orphans need loving homes
Date published: 10/31/2003
I am a member of one of the local families that is trying to adopt children
from Moldova. I already have two adopted children, one of which was born and
adopted here in the United States.
The adoption laws in the United States are strict, but not much more so than
elsewhere. It took a year and four months to adopt our first child from El
Salvador and approximately $18,000 between the years 1989 and 1990. The primary
problem those days was the civil war that was going on in that country. Most of
the money was for U.S. costs.
Our second child was adopted here in this country. It took about four months
and the cost was less than $2,000. Most of the costs in our present adoption
process is for the U.S. adoption agency, not for any overseas expense.
Adoption cost and time varies depending on the circumstances of each case.
There is a great difference between adopting from a foster-care system and from
an orphanage. This difference comes from the way the kids are treated and from
the amount of information that exists for the children.
We in the United States are fortunate to have a foster-care system that allows
kids to grow in a healthy family environment and to not be treated as simply a
number. Unfortunately, all over the world, kids in orphanages, or orphans not
in orphanages, don't have the privilege of having a balanced living existence
where their basic needs are met.
I agree we should care for our own country's orphans, but we should also
consider the needs of foreign orphans and ask God to guide us when making these
choices.
Julio Zorri Berrios
