Open Domestic vs. Closed International Adoption
Overseas adoption has benefits
'Closed adoption’ more attractive to some prospective parents
Nathan and Melissa Bridges don’t claim to have an exciting story of how they decided to adopt a child from Russia...
The Bridges are six months into their journey to adopt internationally, a tedious process fraught with paperwork and bureaucratic delays that typically takes anywhere from a year to 18 months to complete. So why would anyone choose to take an already difficult and emotionally charged situation and add the barriers of an ocean, international politics and different languages?
“There are benefits to almost any kind of adoption -- international, domestic, whatever," Melissa said, as her husband of almost eight years nodded in agreement. “We chose international, and I think this is where it gets touchy for a lot of people is that a lot of people are proponents of open adoption. And I think that’s great. I think it’s wonderful if it works for them. The international adoption process is a lot more closed, which can be good and can be bad, but that was one of the draws for us."
'Closed adoption’ more attractive to some prospective parents
Nathan and Melissa Bridges don’t claim to have an exciting story of how they decided to adopt a child from Russia...
The Bridges are six months into their journey to adopt internationally, a tedious process fraught with paperwork and bureaucratic delays that typically takes anywhere from a year to 18 months to complete. So why would anyone choose to take an already difficult and emotionally charged situation and add the barriers of an ocean, international politics and different languages?
“There are benefits to almost any kind of adoption -- international, domestic, whatever," Melissa said, as her husband of almost eight years nodded in agreement. “We chose international, and I think this is where it gets touchy for a lot of people is that a lot of people are proponents of open adoption. And I think that’s great. I think it’s wonderful if it works for them. The international adoption process is a lot more closed, which can be good and can be bad, but that was one of the draws for us."
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