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Well - it looks like i have been caught in the nightmare of international adoption - in that I was at the last stage of a Kazakhstan adoption - and now all the paperworek is being returned while they change their process. I do have a 7 year old adopted from Guatemala - and we were both looking forward to a little sister. What do you all think? Am I just too old - is there any adoption option for me? - as a single - i don't think I could manage a special needs child and I was hoping for one no more than 3 years old.
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Your never too "old" in my book. If you have the energy and resources to handle it "do your thing" and don't worry about what anyone thinks.
Best wishes and please keep us posted.
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You aren't too old. Age is just a number. Would you consider Foster to Adopt? That is the route I took and I am very blessed with my little one. She came to me at 4 weeks of age.
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I once walked into an agency that was doing support for fos-adopt families, to talk to this gal I knew. I just put my driver's license down on the desk. The thing is, most people take me for 10 years younger. (break my heart!) She looked at it, said, "What?" I said, "Will they let me adopt?" She said, "Well, you have a lot of energy, don't you?"
I said, "Yes". She said "Go for it, it can happen." During my first long-term placement, as a single older female with a 4-y-o boy with RAD, PTSD, hypervigilence, anxiety, quite violent (but improving!), I got a call from the State placement office: "Would you like infant twins, 21 days old?"
Well.... no. (Have you people lost your minds?) But just as indication that "placement", once you're fostering, could really astonish you.
Also, why would you think that an adoption from Kazakhstan wouldn't be special needs? Are their orphanages really top notch?
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