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Although I'm adopting domestically I have picked out my countries for the second child. What I did was write down the top 20 countries that Americans had adopted from in 2007. Then I crossed out the ones I didn't qualify for (Ex. I crossed out Korea and China because I'm single and Ethiopia because I'm a lesbian). Next I crossed of the ones that I did qualify for but the children didn't meet my criteria (Ex. I crossed off Haiti, Poland and Columbia because I wanted a child under 2 years old at homecoming). I ended up with three countries: Russia, Kazakhstan and Taiwan.
I chose Taiwan because I knew so much about Chinese culture, the in-country stay is extremely short, children are ages 6 months and up at homecoming, it was very affordable and the wait is extremely short for special needs children (which I was very open to from the beginning).
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