Safe Surrender?

We are in IL and we were told that SS babies are only available through the private agencies and that you have to pay for everything involved in the process. They also said that there are very few children available this way and there are MANY parents waiting in line already. We have one daughter from China but the wait for a Non special needs child is over SEVEN years now. People getting their referrals this month will have waited 5 years and the wait continues to lenthen every month. It is actually hopefull that people will only wait 7 going into it now. HOWEVER if you are willing to go Special needs which are NOT as severe as US standards the wait is less than 18 months from start to finish. If you want a boy the wait is considerably less than that.