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Our original thoughts were around domestic from the state system. But there are many barriers, challenges and risks that we were not comfortable with relative to adopting school-aged children that way in our particular state. They are more concerned with "family reunification", even when there is clear history of multiple abuses, so foster-to-adopt is the only way to get there and the process can be many years to completion.
At that point, we started investigating IA. Our disinterest in adopting an infant more-or-less ruled out some countries, such as China, where the vast majority of adoptions are very, very young. We were also drawn to hosting which narrowed it down to Russia or Ukraine. Our investigation of agencies and programs further refined the choice to Russia...and here we are, waiting (on pins and needles) for what will hopefully a court date and the realization of our new, larger, family of four.
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