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Originally posted by nostatic
Anyone here adopt from a foreign country? The prospect of going through the pregnancy and baby thing again strikes fear into my heart, but for some reason, the thought of adopting an older (say 2-5 year old) Chinese girl seems appealing. Of course all dependent on how things play out (and I gotta figure out what insane part of me is coming to the fore on this one), but I was wondering if anyone here had adopted from a foreign country. An ex girl friend of mine from college just adopted from Kazhakstan, and it was interesting to say the least...
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An ex- GF of mine adopted a 7 and a 5 year-old from Russia two years ago. I spend a fair amount of time with them, and they are indistinguishable from American kids. Yes, the older one still remembers her father and her mom is trying to get her to maintain her native language.
The orphanage they came from was dirt poor, but very loving and the kids are not the slightest bit screwed up.
This is the big risk with adopting kids over 5 or 6. But older kids risk spending the rest of their childhood in the orphanage.
It's a good thing to do, but expensive and not without risk. If you want to chat with my ex- about it, let me know. She was originally wanting to adopt from China, but Russia seemed to have less of an adoption racket going on. I think it was less than $20K for both kids.