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Before deciding on domestic, we investigated international adoption. The homestudy agency we used strongly suggested that all parents have video taken of their prospective child interacting with themselves, other children and their caregivers for evaluation by a medical adoption professional. Because we live in the tri-state area, there are a number of physicians, child psycologists, adoption specialists, whose job it is to vet these videos for signs of both physical and emotional issues specifically as they relate to children who have been in foster/orphanage care i.e. general developmental delay's, FAS, RAD, PSTD and the list goes on. Friends adopted from Russia and they said the whole process gave them an incredible education. You might ask you agency about the availability of such services to help educate you and your family before bringing your daughter home.
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