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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]from foster care- seriously. I say this as a foster parent and one who has adopted from foster care. I really don't understand why people go oversees for older child adoptions. The children from oversees are not 'less damaged.' You just get less information about them, less support going forward, and spend a whole lot more money. 
A disturbing number of older child oversees adoptions disrupt. https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/s_disrup.pdf 
Statistically, the most successful older child adoptions are when children are adopted by their foster parents. [/quote]

While I agree with some of the observations above, we went overseas for older child adoption [b]because we did not want to be whipsawed by a US foster care system that emphasizes the ideal of family reunification over the best interests of the child. [/b] I did not want to have to constantly worry about interference from an unstable, substance-abusing biological parent.  With our international adoption, we have been able to maintain contact with biological family members who love our kids but did not have the resources (financial or health-wise) to raise them, while at the same time NOT having to have any contact with the biological parents who neglected and abandoned them.  [/quote]

Wow. Can't remember the last time I was more disgusted with a post. Truly. [/quote]

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