We have been reading blogs in the last 3 months, and a number of families are coming home without children or are having to be in the Ukraine for 5-6 weeks to get their second appt and court date.
These families have asked for healthy children under 2. They are usually given 3-6 files to look at and the children are very sick. Some have chosen a child to visit only to have a doctor with them/or in the USA to tell them not to do it. The agency's need to be telling us this. Instead they say we can get a healthy child 18mths and older. Finally, after submitting our money they then say be flexable with age and health. Once we were having our homestudy done they were then trying to push 3-4 yr olds on us.
We finally decided to leave the Ukraine program because we wanted a child under 2 yrs old. Now we are looking at Bulgaria, which you do receive a referrel for.
Also it seems like they do a "bait and switch" in the Ukraine. They try to keep families there as long as possible and then sometimes show healthier children at the 2nd appointment or say there are no new children available you need to go back to the USA and wait for another invitation to the SDA. Families that have done this have ended up leaving the Ukraine program and adopted from Ethiopia. Just some thoughts if you are considering Ukraine.
The sad thing is that those orphanes are the ones to suffer. I understand the Ukraine government wants their citizens to adopt the babies but what happens to the children you arent being adopted because people are playing God at the SDA?
