Adopting from Brazil

kwien

June 24, 2005

Hello,

We are researching the possibility of adopting from Brazil.

Could anyone tell me if it is possible for U.S. citizens to get a referral for healthy children under 5 years of age?

What is the wait time like?

What agency would you recommend (we are looking at LNI)?

How stable is the program right now?

Thank you all so much for any information you can give us!

--KWien

mollinea

July 27, 2005

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[font=Verdana]We are in the early stages of adopting and are looking at [/font][font=Verdana]Brazil[/font][font=Verdana]. The program is quite stable - from what I can see. If you go to [url="http://www.limiar.org/"]www.limiar.org[/url] they are the main [/font][font=Verdana]US[/font][font=Verdana] agency that handles the Brazilian side of the adoption. I live in [/font][font=Verdana]Canada[/font][font=Verdana] and one of the reasons why I liked the idea of [/font][font=Verdana]Brazil[/font][font=Verdana] is that the children in the orphanages have a strong nurturing program and not institutionalized like [/font][font=Verdana]China[/font][font=Verdana]. I found a great URL with lots of links on Adopting from [/font][font=Verdana]Brazil[/font][font=Verdana] - [url="http://www.myadoptionlinks.com/Brazil"]http://www.myadoptionlinks.com/Brazil[/url][/font]

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[font=Verdana]Oh and if you go to the yahoo group called GAARP [url="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAARP/"]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAARP/[/url] [/font]

[font=Verdana]You will see that some people have written about their experiences on adopting from [/font][font=Verdana]Brazil[/font][font=Verdana].[/font]

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[font=Verdana]Hope this helps! Best of luck and you can email me if you have any other questions.[/font]

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[font=Verdana]Cheers,[/font]

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[font=Verdana]Michelle[/font]