I received some information that makes it appear NSN adoptions now account for around fifteen to twenty percent of the total. It also appears that, overall, adoptions are down this year from last year. I don’t think either set of numbers I have is exactly accurate, as they both conflict with each other. However, both [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, the CCCWA has been touring Europe. I’ve received a few more details about what they’ve been doing and the things they’ve been asking. They’ve been staying in homes where children who have been adopted live, and they’ve been asking questions about how the children adjusted – both young babies and older [...]

The CCAA recently sent a delegation out to visit, and the country they visited has shared some of what they learned from the CCAA. You can read what has been posted publicly here. What does this tell us that is important? The NSN program is not going to increase in numbers of babies available. The [...]

Every once in a while I get some rumors that are really more of a discussion item than something we can use for analysis. I’ve got a few of them now. The first comes from several sources, and when I read all of them and try to make it into one cohesive rumor I get [...]

I’ve seen a number of people reporting what their agency is telling them over the past few weeks. I’ve been hoping some of them would begin to agree with each other a bit more, but it’s not happening. Here are some of the things agencies are saying: They have been asked not to send anymore [...]

I have it from two (possibly three) separate sources that the CCAA told them a range that they thought April would be complete. The range in one case was May to July, and in the other case was that it should be complete by June. The possible third gives a range that ends in June [...]