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We've talked about it and would probably adopt an older child from the US. Or be foster parents.

I'd adopt from the U.S. And most likely New York, I often peruse the ACS website and look at the kids who need to be adopted and it breaks my heart.

Korea and Poland!

Korea.

I'd probably opt to be a foster parent in the US.

I would probably try US first, but I would like to from other places too, like Africa.

We've thought about this extensively while we were TTC. I actually realized I wanted kids after teaching in Korea, plus it's when DH and I had gotten closer. Korea has a special tie to both of us and we still both work with Koreans everyday. So if we ever do adopt, it would be from Korea.

BUT, Korean adoption has been greatly limited to foreigners just recently. It also has strict criteria and long wait times. The length of time you've been married, the spacing and ages of the couple, plus the amount of children and spacing between your existing children are also taken into account. They even look at your BMI!

We haven't totally ruled it out, but right now we're just anticipating our baby to arrive and we'll see how we'll manage and if/how long it takes to conceive again.

Which Korea, North or South?

@Crumbs: I have no idea, that's why I asked.

I'd probably adopt from China.

@Crumbs: @looch: I'm positive North Korea doesn't do adoptions... they won't let ANYone out of the country, let alone fresh young kids.

I would have said Korea since Wagon Sr. and I are both Korean-Americans and we would be ideal in their eyes for an adoption, but we've had a few friends go through really difficult adoption processes... long, expensive, and heartwrenching. I can totally understand Korea cracking down a bit on their process since there was such a stigma of adopted Korean kids in the states in the 80s and 90s. One couple I know didn't get their son until a YEAR after they were matched with him-- and he's a pastor, she's an elementary school teacher, how much more ideal can you get than that?!? I hear through them and others that you are first on the list if you are both Korean born citizens, so Korean Americans still aren't ideal for them.

I think I would do a lot of research and choose based on need, cost, and typical speed of process. I know nothing about domestic or international adoption so I can't really answer this question!

If I had the heart for adoption though, I might consider being a foster parent.

We plan to adopt domestically if we can and internationally - I have siblings adopted from Ethiopia so it has a really special place in my heart. As does Haiti, where we nearly adopted two little girls from until policies of the Haitian government changed at the last minute.

It depends. I want two biological kids. If they are a boy and a girl, then we might end up adopting a slightly older kid domestically, since we wouldn't care about gender (not older than our bio-kids, though.) If they are two boys, we'd probably try to adopt a girl from India. If they are two girls, we'd adopt a boy, possibly from somewhere in Africa (Ethiopia is the likely candidate.)

I really want to adopt domestically, and because DH is African-American and I am Hispanic, we would want to adopt a biracial or African-American child. We would also be willing to adopt a toddler, but I am very hesitant about open adoption, so I'm not sure what our options are domestically.

I adopted domestically. We brought our little boy home from the hospital. We also have an open adoption. My son sees his birth parents three times a year (separately, as they are no longer together)

@Mrs. Jacks: I know, and that's awesome! I'm sure my feelings on this will grow and change as time goes on, and if and when we ever actually get involved in the adoption triad. But my reason right now is pretty selfish - I don't know that I could "share" our LO. I worry that it would be too painful or stressful to deal with ongoing contact. I know closed adoptions are not great for the whole triad, but I would prefer a semi-open adoption where the only contact is letters/pictures/etc. until the child is 18. It seems like those situations are very rare domestically.

If we couldn't have a biological kid, we would try to adopt domestically. It's not that we 'need to have an American baby', more that it seems like every day you hear some new story about international adoptions that were totally shady and I don't know if I could deal with weeding out the right agencies, etc. (NOT saying they all are, you just only hear the sensational bad news stories). I also like the idea of helping kids in our country first, but I also would want an infant, not an older child. We wouldn't care about race (we are both white).
I actually did think about this a lot after reading Mrs. Jack's posts about it.

I would probably be the example of a stressful open adoption. Two days after we brought our little guy home the father contested. The birth mother wanted to continue the adoption so we ended up in the courts where we had to pay and every one else got court appointed lawyers. During the process horrible things were said to and about us yet we were not making any of the decisions. In the end our three visits are court ordered. I have been trying to change and open my heart but I was so hurt during the process.

That being said I would absolutely do it all over again because my son is worth it and adoption is a blessing. I mever feel like im sharing him with another mother. I am his mommy and nothing can change that. Our case is very rare. They said they get less than one a year at our agency that is contested. And most are just letters and pictures through the agency.

@Mrs. Jacks: That's interesting to find out. I'll admit I don't have a lot to base it on, but I felt like much more open adoptions were more the norm, with regular visits and that sort of thing. Monthly pictures and letters through the agency sounds perfect to me - but who knows if once we adopted, I'd want to open it up more!

This is an interesting discussion... there was a time I wasn't sure I even wanted biological children, but just wanted to adopt. Now I feel that biological urge to procreate a lot more, and I know if we are unable to conceive, I will really seriously mourn those biological children. Now my hope is a couple kids the old-fashioned way, and then adoption. But DH always says that once we have kids, we have to be sure that we are making the right choice for our family before we adopt. So we'll see!