Matching

Through our adoptions, we have been matched with children and found the children we wanted to adopt.  Our first international adoption was a match, as was our domestic, and the others were through special needs postings.  All of them have turned out to be excellent matches with our family.

The special needs postings come from either a shared list our the agency we are going through.  As time goes by and a child does not find a match, they might go from agency to agency.  Angie looks at these every day.  She can see where a child was with our agency is now being shown through another.

If a person is interested in a specific child, they can request information through their agency.  But if that child moves to another, the person can request that their agency ask about the child to see if another agency will give the child back to your agency.  Sometimes, those other agencies may not want to share.  I don't know if it has something to do with saving face with China or just pride.  I just think that the most important thing should be that the child gets a family, no matter which agency is responsible.

Through social media, the families might advocate for the children.  They add postings and try to share information so that people will adopt the child.  Some of these children are friends with children who have been adopted.  In some situations, they might even be related.  I think they try to adopt twins together, but I don't know about siblings or if they even know that that child might have an older/younger sibling.  I know in Florida, they try to adopt families together, but that can be hard to do.