In The Mail...

A couple of days ago we received some information in the mail from 'Child Youth & Family' basically outlining the whole adoption process for either adopting within NZ or Internationally. It outlines the process and issues relating to parenting a child through adoption. This is what was enclosed:

• Current adoption practice in New Zealand
• Assessment of adoptive applicants
• Intercountry adoption
• The legal picture
• Flow chart of application process
• Statistics

If you click on the second picture if should be large enough to read. This outlines the whole process from start to finish.



As you can see there is a lot to do and prepare for. Child Youth & Family has advised the process until adoption could take anywhere between 2-3 years so we have loads of time to prepare!! Patience will be the issue, I don't like waiting for things....lol

Over the weekend I have read up numerous info on the internet, there is so much informative information especially reading real stories of families who have adopted or currently still going through the process, there are many blogs just like this one I've started. Most provide a great source of information and links. The majority I have found so far however are all American based so most of the useful links etc apply if you are adopting from the US. There seems as if there are loads of agencies to choose from over there which can be a big part of the process where in NZ I think there are only a handful and maybe only one options depending on the country you are choosing which will make our options a lot smaller. NZ also only has a handful of countries you can adopt from compared to other countries.

Russia & China are still our favorable options at this stage, in my mind I have flown back and fourth to both! This certainly will be a great adventure and one of the most exciting and rewarding ones too.

I promised I would introduce our family, this will definitely be in my next post, we have a large family including animals so it might take a while...lol