How long does it normally take a person to adopt an American child?
Again, it depends on what kind of child. An older child, or one of color, or one who has physical or mental disabilities may be available quickly. If you want to adopt a healthy white infant, it may take two to seven years, and you may also pass out of the optimal adopting-parent age range in the meantime. How many children are adopted each year in the United States? The numbers aren’t definite. Nineteen thousand are adopted from abroad. If you include private adoptions, family adoptions, informal adoptions, formal adoptions and agency adoptions, the number seems to be well over 100,000. What is the average age at which children are adopted? Couples or individuals usually want to adopt infants and will wait for an infant or go abroad. That is why so many children in foster homes just wait and wait for a family. However, a large category of adoptions are in-family. These are situations where a child, say a daughter with children, becomes incapacitated or dies, and the grandparents or au
