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- What were your 'criteria' when looking for a child
- How did you decide on the preferred gender for the child?
- How did you decide on the preferred age of the child?
- How did you decide on the size of the adopted family group? (Number of children if more than one, combinations of ages and genders, twinship, etc)
- Did you know enough about the child before the first meeting?
- Were you aware of any physical, psychological, social, etc., impairments of the child?
- How did you choose a country of origin?
- How important was the ‘pink’ friendliness of the country of origin?
- Where did you find information about the country of origin?
- Did you feel you had to lie to the foreign authorities about your ‘pinkness’, or on other topics?
- How did you find a referral?
- How were you matched with your child?
- How many children have you been matched with?
- How did you feel about having to decline a referral/match?
- Did you ever feel like accepting a match that was not feeling quite right, just to ‘be done with it’?
- How did you decide the match was right?
- Did you feel the child took part into the decision?
- How did the first meeting with the child go?
- Did you have a chance to bond with the child in the home country?
- Did you ever feel bad about removing the child from the country?
- How did the home coming go?
- Was the 'non legally adopting' parent involved in the process abroad?
- How was the ‘non legally adopting’ parent involved in the choices made abroad, and home-coming?
- Did the arrival of the child feel as you had expected it to?
- How quickly did you bond with the child?
- How quickly did the child bond with you?
- Did you experience an ‘adoption blues’ after the arrival of the child?
- Did you ever think about calling it all off? (From applying till the first days with the child)
- How easy was it to register the foreign adoption?
- Was it easy to get immigration clearance?
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