Over the past four years, leading up to the referral of our daughter, I have watched the wait times for China adoption begin at 12-18 months and continue increasing to a soaring 4 year wait. There is always speculation about the cause of the wait, and I hesitate to ever give misinformation. I have ideas and thoughts about the wait; however I would never voice those ideas. Instead, I will only say while it is great that so many special needs children are being placed through China adoption, my heart goes out to those families which are stuck in programs which do not have special needs available, upwards of four years from receiving a referral date. We were one of those families, in a small agency without a special needs program. Our small agency finally closed and sent us to an agency with a special needs program. Special needs was our hearts desire from the beginning, however we believe the wait was a kind of divine intervention which caused us to take the leap.
Here is what we have found out, in a nutshell, from the delegation representing the CCAA in the country of Australia:
• The adoption of nsn children will continue to decrease. Representatives advised reasons for a continued decline in numbers of nsn adoption include, but are not limited to, a rising number of Chinese domestic adoptions and tighter regulations on the trafficking of children. The high number of special needs children, including children categorized as older children were highlighted with representatives indicating a high number of qualified families will be needed for these children.
• There was no indication from the representatives on how many months the wait might increase, in China adoption, however a minimum was indicated of 4 years.
• Those families grandfathered under the new rules are supposed to meet the old requirements in China adoption. Recently we have seen a few families under the old eligibility requirements who were held under the new rules.
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