[babrn]

Does anyone know approximately how many adoptions a year ldsfs does a year in this country? Just wondering. I've seen some statistics that are several years old. I know that our local agency does about 8 a year. Thanks.
Waiting to adopt #1. 4 months since approved.

[aspenhall]

I think it varies....we were told though that the avg wait was appx 1.5 years -2 yrs from time of approval

[emme11]

I am wondering if the wait times will now increase because of the new policy. Our LDSFS agency went from having an average of around 15-20 couples waiting to having around 50 from what I have heard. I have heard that caseworkers all over the country are extremely overwhelmed.

I wonder with all of the changes that are happening if they will start to do more open adoptions. I know that it can be done now through a designated adoption but not where the bmom just goes into the agency and picks a couple. It seems like a lot of bmoms are going elsewhere because of this.

[aspenhall]

As far as I know, they officially changed policy 2 yrs ago. After semi-open for the first 6 mo, they quit monitoring stuff and they just leave it totally up to the triad as far as openess goes. In fact almost ALL their policies are different now...including limits on how many...etc...