Hey Donna,

While I agree with you and my fiance and I are going to adopt an older child from the US there is the fact that it is actually somewhat easier to adopt a child overseas than a child in the U.S. You don't have as much paperwork to go through and you don't have to worry about the birth parents decieding they want the child back. In the US they have one year from the time they are adopted for the natural parents to come and claim them.