[Manda]

I appreciate the quick responses, and all the information. After I posted my initial post I got on the phone with a bunch of different places. (Ugh.) From what I understand (still doing research) it is the Army Community Service and the Legal Assistance Department here that is requiring my husband and I to be 25 before we can adopt. That is if we want to use THEIR services.

I was relieved after speaking to Social Services that we have to option to pursue adoption through other resources. I can't tell you how dissappointed I was when I thought the whole process was on hold due to our age.

BTW One of the reasons we are pursuing adoption on this end (Germany,) rather then relocating or waiting until we return to the states is that my husband is in a position here where he is assigned to an all Garrison (non-deployable) unit. Something that is a first for us. I would love... and perfer that he be as completely involved in this process as I am. To assure that he has the best opportunity to be involved we need to get the ball rolling while we know he will be home to help.

We'll see how this works out. If you can't tell we are just in the preliminaries of the adoption process.