availabilty of AA or bi-racial babies?

I think generally speaking...yes this is true! I know our local agency is always sending out letters requesting families who are open to AA or biracial children. It seems also for some reason that there are more males available than females. I would start finding information by contacting agencies, attorneys, etc. that you are interested in going through. Ask about their programs and typical waiting periods. This will help you in deciding how you want to proceed with your adoption plans. Best of luck to you, Christa

YES it is true. The wait to adopt these children is very short in most cases because it is so difficult to find the families for so many children. Full AA children especially. We adopted 3 children in 3 1/2 years! I can email you info on the referral service we used. If you can an Inter-Racial couple, it will be even easier for you! GOOD LUCK!! Deb

I agree as well. We just finalized on our 'second' little girl this month. We have adopted seven times.....internationally (we lived over there), through the foster care system (wouldn't do that again).......and now, back to infants. We wanted only AA or bi-racial babies (preferably AA)......and our wait was basically short. Being an inter-racial couple should be a great asset! Best of luck.... Sincerely, Linny

We also have been told that being a bi-racial couple looking to adopt a bi-racial baby would take a lot less time..... Well, I'm still waiting. We have been with our agency since June 2003, we were matched the 1st time in less than 2 months and the baby was due the following month. The birthmother changed her mind and deceided to parent 2 weeks before her due date. Then we moved so we were taken off the active listing. Once we settled in our new home and had our update done on our homestudy we were re-activated with our agency on March 18, 2004. It's now been almost 4 months and still waiting. Our agency keeps saying it will happen soon. You know how hard it is to wait when you ache for a child to love and nuture. Our agency is fairly big and they only have a few bi-racial and African American families. So we sit and wonder what's wrong with us that we haven't been chosen yet. Mu hubby wonders if his being in the miltiary is making it harder for birthmothers to consider us, with the way the world is these days. We also wonder if maybe we should consider a smaller agency. We are currently living in Guam so it's not like living within the US it is a territory of te US which is kinda different and some people won't work with us. They consider it living overseas. DebC can you PM me the referral service you used. Thanks Sorry for rambling today seems to be harder than usual. It's not at all fun waiting. Although I have taken comfort in seeing so many of our felllow members here going to pick up their new children. It make me happy to hear of their success and gives us all hope!!!

dkbw, Hang in there! I know that the wait can be excruciating. My husband is a police officer and we were actually worried that this would interfere with us being chosen as well. I actually think that if our circumstances had been different...long story...the birthmother would not have chosen us due to his profession. However, God stepped in and through a twist of fate it worked out. When she met my husband for the first time her comment was, "he is not at all like any of the cops I know." Her experience had not necessarily been positive! I guess my rambling is to say...the right bmother will find you! Have faith your angel will find their way to you! Christa

My husband and I were open to any race, and we were matched after waiting 8 weeks. The baby is not due for a couple more months, so we are just waiting and hoping all works out, but I think we were matched quickly (although it felt like an eternity quite honestly!)

we waited 14 mo to me matched. we had No calls for 1 full year and our first 'possible' bmom chose another family. then we got another call 2 mo later, with our beautiful baby girl. both baby's were/are biracial. 8 weeks is lighting speed :D good luck on your wait, one good thing about our wait, we did it all before we knew about the baby. we found out about her on friday afternoon(cali time) and were in FL meeting her by monday morning, taken her home from the hospital(well to the hotel room) tuesday. wouldnt have it any other way. i'm Not much of a sit and 'twiddle your thumbs' and hope 'all works out in the end', kinda person. i would have worried myself (and DH) to Death. :eek:

Last I heard, Bethany Christian Services has some waiting AA/Biracial babies right now. Sarah

I am a single adoptive mom and it only took me 2 days to be matched and then to go pick of my dear daughter!! I am a true believer in the agency working for you! I think that getting a baby whether it be AA or another race depends on if the agency is working for you. I just happened to call into the agency on the day that I was matched. I think it has a lot to do with timing and staying in contact. Just a thought!

i agree it has Everything to do with timing....His timing. we were signed with a very well known agency that is lisenced in 5 states. they place around 200 baby's a year. our bmom found us by a brochure in a planned parenthood in a state our agency is not even licensed in(talk about advertising!). they were in Constant contact with us. all those months we had no 'calls' they were calling us to make sure we were ok and giving networking advice. and we werent matched for 14 mo. looking back, we needed that time to get things in order, to do things we wont be able to do now that we have our beauty. things that have affected our future and our life as this family. one(there are Many) Amazing case-in-point is that while in FL getting our baby, DH got a call from a client here in Cali that made it possible for me to resign my position and be a SAHM. and then there is that one of my closest friends went with another agency, licensed only in cali, they were Very hard to get ahold of, her SW lied to her about Many things when she did talk to her and made it a habit of placing babies in foster care before presenting bpletters to bmoms, and they were matched in 3 months. i know in my heart that she could not have survived a wait like ours, her grief and want was so much that true damage to her family would have been done. now our children will grow up together only 4 months apart. how wonderful is that?! So yes, it is timing but i believe it has more to do with His than ours.