http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/featr/content/features/stories/2008/04/13/Adopt.html
"They are just about ready to give up.
Blair and Gary Miller have a real desire to adopt a little girl from China. They already have done it once: Connelly, now 5, was adopted in 2003.
But if the seemingly endless backlog in Chinese adoptions continues, the Rocky Mount couple could be looking at a five- to 10-year wait before they hold the new child in their arms, Blair Miller said. The wait is just too long for the Millers, who have two biological children in addition to Connelly."
he Millers knew about programs with other countries, but they wanted Connelly to have a sibling from China who she could better relate to, Miller said. Having started the paperwork for a second adoption in February, it now seems easier to be content with the three children they have rather than start all over with another country.
"Knowing the type of life that we have given our daughter and thinking about where she started in an orphanage, it is absolutely heartbreaking knowing how we could change another child's life and that it is not going to happen," Miller said.
Officials in China say the delays are due to staff shortages, major changes to their adoption law in 2007, that there are fewer orphans for Americans to adopt because Chinese citizens are being encouraged to adopt domestically and people from other countries are waiting as well, Johnson said.
In Russia, a decrease in adoptions followed a shift in the responsibilities of certain ministries and the implementation of a new procedure requiring private groups to register, Johnson said. Things are slowly getting back to normal in there.
There have been short-term moratoriums in the Ukraine, and one in Nepal for almost a year, Johnson said. Slowdowns in countries such as South
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