Saturday, April 24, 2010

A lot of adoption blogs that I follow have gone private in the last week. Most I don't follow religiously, but it has still been encouraging and fun to read them when I get a chance. The main reason for them becoming private is to protect the program in the country from which the family is adopting from. There have been several instances in more than 1 country in which a family has lost their child due to information on the blog. It is such a huge bummer. Reading blogs from people definitely helped us look at dift. countries and really gave us information to think about as we formulated a certain direction to head in. And truthfully, it is fun to see others live their lives as they go about adopting, as our family is. I just feel disapointed that there are so many children in need around the world, and yet some are not getting families based off of something written on a blog. At this point, we will continue to leave the blog open, but will be general about our descriptions and things that are happening as far as the adoption is concerned. We definitely don't want to mess anything up for ourselves or others. We will let you know that we have switched countries and are no longer pursuing adoption from the country we blogged about originally. This was due to several reasons. One is that there was a huge influx of people into the program and the wait became much longer than we had anticipated when we first started looking into the program. The country may also change the way they do adoptions and with the wait becoming so much longer, we worry if they change how they handle adoptions, that we might not qualify. It has been quite a ride for us so far in this adoption, and we hope that things will go much smoother from this point on!

1 comment:

  1. Jess,
    Thanks for the info. This is the first I've heard of this. Yikes!
    Has our agency given you any blog guidelines?
    Liz

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