Even with the built-in uncertainties of adoption, most end happily, Bledsoe says. One study, sponsored by the Joint Council on International Children's Services , interviewed more than 700 families who had adopted internationally through agencies all over the country. Those are pretty good statistics. It speaks to the fact that bonding between a parent and child goes beyond an illness. University of Minnesota pediatrician Dana Johnson, who founded Minnesota's adoption medicine clinic, agrees.
All children come with problems.
Most families are happy.