-
Having trouble using the site?
Contact support
Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
- Thread starter Snake-Eyes
- Start date
-
- Tags
- motivational pictures
Its sad it takes so much time, work, and money to adopt a child. Meanwhile children are dumped into horrible abusive foster homes by CPS every single day.
Even worse when it's a "Foreign Adoption." Back when the PRC still had its "One Child" policy, there was a flood of adoptions of young girls from China. It costs roughly $50-75K to adopt and often took years. There were US organizations (Holt, Intl.) that would aid US couples that wanted to adopt young girls from China (Boys were rarely adopted as they were needed in China for the Military, and to carry on the family lineage, etc.). The paperwork was massive. Eventually, after the home studies, the checks, the waiting on the Chinese Bureaucracy and the "referral" process (i.e. Chinese govt. refers a kid to the couple who then gets to accept/reject the kid). Not to mention the US paperwork that has to be done (i.e. Filing for IH3 Immigration Visa, etc.). After referral acceptance, and then another few months, the PRC govt. issues a "TA" (Travel Approval) for the couple to fly to China to complete the adoption. By then, the kid has been in a foster home for a while to get used to the idea of living in a family setting instead of an orphanage.
"Gotcha" day happens when the couple finally meets the kid, usually, at the Provincial govt. adoption center. And it's usually on a day when there are several adoptions going on simultaneously, resulting in a bunch of chaos. If you ever saw the movie, "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Red's" discussion of being "Institutionalized," this process and the kids within it are the very example of that. Not a "Prison," but an Orphanage and a Foster Care System. These kids (who are used to their care givers in the orphanage and the foster family) are suddenly thrust into the arms of two people they never met. Total melt downs.... almost all of them. It then becomes the new parent's job to get that child calm and relaxed and "accepting" of them. The family usually stays in China for a couple of weeks but, no matter where the adoption takes place, they must all travel to the City of Guangzhou, where the US Consulate General office is located to apply for/receive the IH3 Visa. When that gets affixed to the girl's Chinese passport (which they get once the adoption is finalized in China), they can fly home. Once the kid steps off the plane, they are then US Citizens. Last step is for the Foreign adoption to be recognized and certified in the US by the couple's County Court. Shortly after that, the kid can get their US Passport.
These days, adoptions from the PRC are quite fewer in the US, due to 1) The one child policy being relaxed to two; and 2) The strained relations between the US and the PRC. Other countries can still adopt, though.
Some of those adoption agencies actually encourage the couples to video the process as it's happening and they post those videos to YouTube. I think that's mostly for "advertising/marketing" to encourage more Foreign Adoptions from US Couples. Not needed so much these days, but...
Here are two examples.
Last edited:
more of her please!
I remember those from Panama, saw a guy git bit on the arm and it swelled up like a football
you get a look like that .. better have a blue pill... because that's a, I want to go for 2 hours; type of look..
or bring a friend..
