International Adoption: Spotlight Madonna

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

And then you can just leave? I thought there was a whole process: repeated visits and stays in-country, that sort of thing.

There are usually two required short visits/stays or one long one. Total is less than 6 weeks. However, you can pay for waiver of the waiting period. Some countries allow you to hire an escort to fly your child to you so you don't have to go back.

What stops child prostitute rings from scooping up kids by the truckload?

The Dossier process. They have quite a few requirements, including that all those adopting go through whatever homestudy etc. required where they live before they are approved to travel and a shitload of money. For all we know quite a few E.European kids are now child prostitutes because the ring bribed one or more corrupt official.

That's so weird. I don't see any advantage in that at all. It seems to me the point of delays and residency/visitation requirements should be to vet the adopters, not put the kid on trial.

Supposedly it's to allow citizens "first crack" at adopting..unfortunately the culture in many of these countries frowns on adoption. Mostly it's to make the governments look like they give a flying fuck about their kids, from what I can tell, a political facade of concern.