How are countries with centralized adoption processing different?
In countries with centralized adoption processing, all adoption materials must be sent directly to the central (as opposed to provincial) government. This applies both to adoptive parents and orphanages. The government then matches children with adoptive parents. When there is no way for private individuals to make this connection, there is no incentive for them to make more children available for adoption. Any family can end up adopting any child. Facilitators help with interpretive services, document assistance, and clearing administrative log jams. Just getting public officials to do the jobs they are supposed to do in a timely manner can be a mark of a great facilitator. Like the ones who help our families. Different countries approach this in different ways. China asks families to write a profile of the kind of child they want to adopt (boy or girl, infant or older, etc.). Adoption officials then look at information about different children provided to them by orphanages, and matc
