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We adopted five babies in exactly five years, all AA and MR. I would not say that we really had to wait with any of them, our first one we were rushed through the HS process for because there were no other families interested in a MR child, our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th WE were contacted by the agency and for the 5th we were lead to an agency via a PM we received on these forums and within 4 weeks we had our little angel in our arms. There is definitely a need for all types of families to adopt all types of children (cc, aa, mr, older, special needs, etc). In some areas the wait is very long while in others they are begging for homes while babies wait in fostercare. I wish there was some sort of national database of adoptive parents out there that could be dispersed to ALL agencies. That may alleviate the need for fostercare for some of these babes and lessen the wait times. Do your homework! Research and network out there, there are definitely babes waiting.
Leslie
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