Rumours

I read the RQ website (see the links) and this month has been full of really positive rumours of a 'huge' batch that will have people needing to be scraped off the cyber ceiling!! But (you knew there would be a but didn't you?!?!) the latest rumours are pointing to another 6 day batch!! At that rate it will take YEARS for us to get to the front of the queue :-( I was so happy with the positive rumours, and hoping (foolishly it seems) that referrals would start to speed up now - the new rules are in place and the CCAA aren't going to be inundated with dossiers, so they could (if they wanted) speed up. Unfortunately, at this point in time, it doesn't look like that will be happening.

The slow down in referrals was SO sudden and precipitous that I can't help but believe that its due to political reasons, rather than a lack of babies needing adoption. It is China's right to chose if/how many of their own child citizens can be adopted to foreigners, but it seems awful that those choices could be being made for reasons other than the child's best interests. Every child where ever they live should have a committed adult to care for, love and raise them - no child should grow up in an institution, there are NO GOOD ORPHANAGES. Even the best institution is not a good place to bring up a child.

So why was there a sudden drop in the numbers of referrals sent out by the CCAA?? I have no idea, only the CCAA knows the answer to that question - and they aren't talking!! My guess is that there isn't one single reason, but a whole load of intertwined circumstances have come together to make this slowdown happen. It can't all be due to more children being adopted domestically (which is the 2nd best thing for the children - to be adopted in their own country and culture) or a slow down in abandonments - the changes happened too suddenly for that to be a realistic reason imho. But it doesn't matter what the reason is, we will get our referral when we get our referral - hopefully it will be sometime this century!!!