Adoption Process - Week 26 2/6/2005
Our dossier remains in the hands of our faciliation team in Kyiv. The Adoption Center, however, is still not accepting new dossiers except for families seeking to adopt children older than 10. Governmentally, there is a lot of exciting stuff going on, including new cabinet ministers for both the Ministry of Eduction (current umbrella to the NAC) and the Ministry of Child, Youth, and Family Matters (the likely new department the NAC will fall under). There is talk about a complete closure of the NAC in order for a transition of personnel and policies to take place, but this may or may not happen and the timing is also still in question. Supposedly a list of “potential reforms to the adoption process” has been issued, but I have not yet heard what they are.
So the waiting, hoping, praying, and believing for the best continues unabated.
I hope everything is expedited, Jodi. ((HUG.)) I’m watching and praying with you.
Hi Jodi! I am almost in the same boat…ok, maybe rowing just slightly behind you. Our dossier is being translated, and I am praying that by the time they have finished, NAC will be “open” again. We too have hit the infertility wall and want this to happen YESTERDAY! Please email me, as I would love to compare notes and co-miserate.
Cheryl
It must be so hard to wait with things so open-ended.
Some good developments we’ve seen over the last few years is a healthily developing foster care system. An elder and his wife from our sister church (who have 4 grown kids) have several small foster kids in a home outside the city. Much healthier, imo, than the orphage system.
And a friend of ours who is a psychiatrist has been going around the country educating judges about children’s rights. While I’m skeptical of “children’s rights” when they can undermine parental authority and responsibility, I’m happy about it here. There is a lot of negative patterns instituted in the system. (But many wonderful families.)
Praying the dust from the revolution will settle soon and you will be able to come and meet the little one God has chosen for you.