This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart because two of our children are adopted from Korea.

After suffering through four years of infertility, we wanted a healthy baby, and fast! At the time, you could apply for and receive a healthy child from Korea within one year. We applied, took the class, went through the home study (which all expecting parents should have to do) and had our healthy baby boy within nine months. We adored him so much, we turned around and filed for another baby, and our little girl arrived within nine months, during which time I became pregnant.

We did not adopt to save the world. We had more selfish reasons. We wanted a family.

Unfortunately, there was no quick easy way to adopt an American baby at the time so we chose foreign adoption.