brand new uterus?

i have always had trouble understanding why alot of americans adopt over seas when there are so many needing and deserving children right here in our own cities and states.

Because most of the children here are special-needs.

What folks don't realize is that plenty of the kids from overseas are special needs, too. They just haven't been diagnosed yet.

Oh, and lots of the kids here are kids, not babies. You know how some people insist on puppies? [:@]

First off we are in Canada, and while we have many children in foster care, they are just that fosters, and so they remain until both parents give up custody, which many do not, I know people that hae been raiseing children, most of which are special needs, one is 16 they have had him since he was 1.5 and the do not have custody, if tomorrow his parents wanted him back they have to let him go, another they have is 12, same thing, but they have had him since he was about 3 months.  Most of our adoptions are open, you have the birth parents in your lives forever.  You put your names in at an adoption agency and you go in a book until someone picks you out of the book.  If an infant or even a child under 3 comes up for adoption in the foster care system then there is a long list of people waiting to take them in, as long as 5 years.  While the international adoption has taken that long, it really wasnt supposed too.  The people that are fostering the child has first option to adopt them, where my cousin lives there is no foster homes because it is an isolated town, they take the children to the largest town, not the smallest with no hospital, basically she in not elligable to become a foster parent.  

I guess I'll be another with a possibly not popular opinion.  We're just now starting to look into adoption (I was diagnosed with infertility almost three years ago) and what's really hit us is the cost.  For a domestic adoption, you're looking at $25,000, easy.  There is a $10,000+ tax break, but you've got to front the money first.  International adoptions (China, before they changed their regulations) can cost as little as $10,000 (not including travel costs). 

I think the biggest reason people go international or consider it is that the chances of the birth family trying to take your child are reduced.  I'm not saying it happens often in the U.S. (I don't have statistics, I'm almost scared to look for them) but it does happen.  Courts often side with the birth parent(s) in these cases, and that just doesn't seem right to me as a prospective adopting parent, you know?  Another reason that friends of ours went internationally (China) was that they felt that their daughter would be killed if she wasn't adopted.

As far as a uterus transplant...I wouldn't personally take it that far, but I can understand the desperation of someone who does it.  It's a difficult thing, having to let go of that dream of having children.  Adoption is a wonderful route, but it's not for everyone and every situation.