This is just a reminder that I’ve set up a new poll. If you are still waiting for your referral, and still expect to accept your referral, then please go here and let us know when your dossier was logged in at the CCAA. Do not enter when your dossier arrived in China, but only [...]

I’ve set up a new poll. If you are still waiting for your referral, and still expect to accept your referral, then please go here and let us know when your dossier was logged in at the CCAA. Do not enter when your dossier arrived in China, but only your official log in date (LID). [...]

I’ve had some numbers come to me that were originally from a fairly reliable source. I’ll use the raw numbers at a later date, once the State Department posts the 2010 numbers, but for now I’m going to use them in percentages. Percentage of total of Special Needs children in 2009: 48%. So far in [...]

Spain released adoption numbers from 2005 to 2009. The 2009 numbers for Asia are one quarter what they were in 2005. The US State Department numbers went from 7,903 in 2005 to 3001 in 2009, which is 38% of what they were. However, I believe a lot more Americans are choosing to adopt via the [...]

Here are the numbers for our most recent LID poll, closed July 15, 2010. I’ll be playing with the numbers later, but for now, I know many of you are anxious to see what they look like. I will caution that I won’t be using the new poll numbers right away. I have to incorporate [...]

Our polls are not scientific. If they were scientific then I would contact people who were adopting and ask them questions, and I would have a way to make sure I was getting a random sample. Also, I would know for sure (within a few percentage points) what percentage of the total I was polling. [...]