From the Netherlands
I'm quoting here:
The Dutch adoption organization Wereldkinderen visited CCAA and BLAS recently. They were told that at this moment CCAA received a 2000 adoption applications monthly. This amount is much more than the 13.000 children they have available for International adoption per year. The number of 13.000 children per year will remain stable for now, but will shrink in the next years as more and more children are adopted by Chinese families due to economic growth. At this moment children adopted by Chinese families exceeds already the number of International adoptions. The CCAA policy is, conform the Hague convention/agreement, that adoption within China is preferred over International adoption. As CCAA has to deal with a growing number of application and the number of children available for International adoption is stable the waiting time will be longer. At this moment the waiting time is 11 months CCAA expects it to be longer over time.I don't have a link for backup on this one, this is reported by an individual. It would appear this means we can expect the half months to continue.
posted by RumorQueen at 3/27/2006 08:34:00 AM
5 Comments:
...and the hits keep on coming....I could just beat my head on a wall having a 2/06 LID. Was there ANY mention in the Netherland communication of a plan to cap the number of dossiers flowing in if they only have about half as many children paper-ready per year?
Interesting - I wouldn't have guessed there are so many domestic adoptions already taking place.
If you've already posted on this forgive me, - is the current chatter that referrals are in the mail now - even though the CCAA page is not updated with a new cut-off date?
In all the talk about the decrease in availability of nsn children for international adoption (for various reasons), I haven't heard anything about sn children and IA. Have you rumor queen or anyone out there? It seems like if sn children are available and the wait time is stable more international parents may consider this route.
I can confirm this one; comes from a Dutch agency, and I'm living in the Netherlands. They've put this news on www.wereldkinderen.nl.
Bad news for us, but good news for the children in China, that get adopted by Chinese parents and get to stay in China...
(but I'm getting depressed!!!)
I agree with the first commenter -- if we are to believe this 2000 per month figure ( and i am not sure that i do) then wouldn't the ccaa have no choice but to start instituting quotas? Like right now? I mean we are looking at a 2 year wait here -- and the only way to curtail the ( supposedly) huge gap between available babies and increasing dossiers is to control the number of dossiers submitted.
it also feels a bit propagandic to me -- 'increasing interest in domestic adoptions due to increasing economic growth" My understanding is that the acceptance of domestic adoption in china has alot to do with cultural mores and prejudices --its not just an issue of economics...
Unless the Chinese government is waiving the one child rule in case of adoption, it seems unlikely that the domestic adoption rate would skyrocket. Add in cultural biases against adopting, and in a society of over ONE BILLION people there will be a lot of "cultural inertia", opinions and traditions won't likely change overnight. The big problem is that we don't really know any hard numbers on anything in this case. The LID surveys can give us some possible trends, but many families are aware of the surveys? I wasn't. And, we don't know how many applicants don't join internet groups. I enjoy the rumors as much as anyone, but trying to make predictions based on pure guesswork is pretty shaky ground.
But then I'm still optimistic that things will get better soon.
It is nice to get a good rumor fix all in one place though!
Michael
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