What is a post-adoption report?
All countries require periodic reports on each child, with a few pictures, for several years after the adoption. These are sent by the parents or by a social worker, through the agency, to the foreign courts; they assure them that the children are healthy, loved, and well taken care of. These reports continually reassure the Courts that they have made a decision in the best interests of the child. Post-adoption reports are thus crucial to the continuation of international adoption in almost all countries. Actually, they are quite enjoyable to write, kind of like a letter home. They give you a chance to reflect on your child’s adoption and your child’s development, and help assure that international adoption will continue to be an option for both orphans and adoptive families. In some cases, the reports are simply written by the parents and translated by us. In other cases, countries or states will require that one or more of the reports be written by a social worker.
