Now there is a ban on United States adoptions in Russia. The orphanages were questionable children were placed first locally, then nationally, and it was only then, when they were often several years old, that Americans could adopt them. For me? There was Russia, which speaks to my ancestry, but that country seemed ominous. A true connection, and one, we thought, we could pass on to our child. My husband is half Spanish, a native Spanish speaker who's lived in South America, and so Guatemala had seemed like the perfect plan. Guatemala closed to Americans in 2009, right around the time we went to the International Adoption Training session at an agency in Manhattan. International adoption was volatile, as it remains. We decided on domestic adoption for several reasons. At the very least, we assumed there was an adoption system in place that works, and that we could move from the notional if we get a child-the gamble of science-to the unshakable when. When we decided to adopt, ceasing the fertility treatments and relinquishing our genetic link to our offspring, we thought the decision was altruistic.
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