The General Specifics

As I was glancing over our blog, I realized that we had not shared some pretty significant aspects of our adoption with many of you. Here are some things that we get asked about often that you might just want to know!

· We will be adopting a child from the “waiting child” program. This means our little girl will have a “special needs” medical condition of some kind.
· Many of the “special needs” conditions are either correctable or manageable through the advanced medical resources readily available in the U.S.
· The China adoption process (for “special needs” children) takes between 18-36 months to complete because of verifications that need to be made, matching the parents with the appropriate child, and travel.
· We will be adopting a little girl who will be between 1-3 years of age when we pick her up from China (most likely we will get her around her 2nd birthday). So, in essence, she could be born any day now if not already!
· We are using CCAI (Chinese Children Agency International) as our Adoption Agency. They are fully licensed and Hague approved. In fact, CCAI, is the #1 ranked China-focused adoption agency. CCAI has found loving homes for over 10,000 abandoned children.
· The United States became part of the Hague Convention in 1994. This organization helps to establish international agreements to safeguard inter-country adoptions though set international standards and guidelines for inter-country adoptions.
· The average China adoption costs between $28,000 - $35,000. For more specifics please check out this this post.