However, these exceptions are only made if the family agrees to have their dossier completed immediately. AGCI cannot hold up a child waiting for a family while their paperwork is completed. Many families ask about adopting older children. We have numerous families that despite negative scenarios you may hear have adopted older children quite successfully. The child's age has not been a barrier to a loving and wonderful relationship.
Older children are available in Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, and China.
These children are perhaps one of the most needy groups of orphaned children. Over the years they have been captive in their country's adoption system. Many have no mother's declaration, which for an adopted child is their only legal passport to adoption, unless someone goes to court on their behalf to declare them abandoned. We spend countless hours in the courts on behalf of these children as their advocates, petitioning the courts for the abandonment. Many of these children will never have a chance to have a family unless someone comes forward and works on their behalf.