How to Select a Ukrainian Adoption Facilitator
If you are just starting out, you want to do some researching and thinking on the Ukrainian faciliator. You hire this individual directly (independent adoption) or indirectly (agency adoption). This...
View ArticleHow to Select a Ukrainian Adoption Facilitator – Options
I am going to review some history in Ukrainian adoption as it relates to facilitators. Cathy Harris runs a business out of Florida. She started helping with Ukrainian adoptions back in 1999. She fills...
View ArticleHow to Select a Ukrainian Adoption Facilitator – Take Your Time
You have many choices…. In some ways there are too many choices and not enough protections for the adoptive parent. The theme of this blog is take the time to do your research. It can save you a world...
View ArticleHow to Select a Ukrainian Adoption Facilitator – David Bentley
I mentioned in Take Your Time blog that you need to take time and research options when selecting an adoption facilitator. I used David Bentley (formerly named David Dolinsky) as major example. I was...
View ArticleSingle and Adopting from Ukraine
There is a single woman posting on Ukrainian email lists and forums. She is asking all the questions that I asked back in 2000. And these are questions that I am asking in 2006. I would like to adopt...
View ArticleRead, read and read some more
I told another women thinking about adoption to take her time… do the research. For my first adoption, I researched about a year before deciding to adopt from Ukraine without an agency (indepedently)....
View ArticleThinking About Adopting From Ukraine?
Thinking about adopting from Ukraine? Me too… I have been thinking about adopting a second child from Ukraine for a while now. I have always wanted to parent 2 children. I think the sibling...
View ArticleUkrainian Adoption – Vocabulary Definitions
The picture on the right has nothing to do with this blog. I just liked it. My cat, Jenks, decided to throw himself away… curled up in a trash bag. This is the same cat who attacked me because I...
View ArticleExploring the Ukraine Adoption Option
I am linked to Ukraine because that is where my first child was born. I would like to adopt a second child. And I have been exploring my adoption options. My research has been going on for a while...
View ArticleWarnings and Ethical Adoption
I started answering some of Jan’s questions about ethical international adoptions yesterday. She wanted to know why families ignore warnings and take the risk of an unethical adoption? Yesterday I...
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