*breathe*

[textualdeviance]

I just sent a short mail to an adoption attorney.

I honestly don't know if that's really the right place to start, but it'll at least give us a better idea than what I've come up with so far, which has been a giant morass of agencies and agents for agencies and useless directory sites and... blah. No way to tell which ones are a scam, or which ones would balk at handing a kid over to a couple of queer atheists or whatever. The whole thing seems like a big pile of Ponzi schemes and snake oil sales drones.

I'm figuring it'll take months to get through all the paperwork and such, so I may as well get going on it now, even though I'm a little concerned about financial issues at the moment, what with the economy being a disaster.

I guess we'll see what happens next.

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[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

international takes forever because of immigration issues and all that. We're more than likely going to stick with domestic

Strangely, from what I gather there's virtually no domestic adoption in Quebec - apparently because Quebec families have tended to be large (6 or more kids) for many generations and families adopt their own, so to speak.

I'm quite nervous about the scrutiny involved, actually

I know that with M&J, they had a delay in their process because the social worker assigned to evaluate their home, work stability and relationship with each other took a dislike to M and made them jump through extra hoops because of it. That's what I'd find most worrisome about that kind of process - the fact that a petty-minded person could wield so much power over a decision that would change my life....