Parents-to-be often dream of bringing home their baby from the hospital and beginning a blissful life together. Many people forming their families through adoption, have the same dream. The reality is that adopting a newborn infant is becoming less common as more birthparents are choosing to care for their children. Public adoption agencies in Canada indicate that it is an eight year wait for a healthy newborn through their systems.
The Challenges of Private Domestic Adoption
The biggest challenge of adopting a child privately either through an agency or licensee is that the number of birth parents choosing an adoption plan for their baby is decreasing each year. According to statistics compiled by Human Resources and Social Development Canada the number of private adoptions across Canada in 2004 was less than 500, with 172 of those taking place in Ontario. In 2007 in the same province, just over 100 babies were privately adopted.