How do domestic adoptions differ from foreign adoptions?
There is much more paperwork in foreign adoptions. You have to satisfy our immigration laws and may have to stay in the foreign country several weeks. You also have to provide all the basic adoption documents that your state requires, like health and home studies, then satisfy the foreign country, and then satisfy the U.S. when you bring the baby back to ensure that he or she was properly adopted. However, foreign adoptions differ in positive ways as well. They take less time, as there are many babies available in certain countries, and the age of adopting parents is not as much a factor. You also have the satisfaction that you have adopted a child who might have died otherwise. From which countries is it easiest for an American family to adopt a child? According to The Adoption Guide, currently it’s China, with 4,000 adoptions a year by United States families, and Russia, also with 4,000 a year. But political situations change all the time. How easy is it to adopt an American infant?
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