Originally Posted By: lectric
The adoption process takes from 3-5 years currently due to a lack of babies that are born to mothers that choose to put them up for adoption. Babies are being SOLD on the black market. For me, there is no excuse for this.

I'm genuinely surprised to hear that. The experience of friends in the UK who've adopted has been completely the opposite: there's a lack of potential adoptive parents, and couples who apply to adopt are being SOLD on the open market (from one local authority to another). It still takes from 3-5 years, though, mostly because the authorities try so very hard to make sure the parents aren't nutters before placing a child with them.

Peter