Does anyone know how to go about adopting a child from Afghanistan?

Question

Sunny, I don't understand the venom in your answer - as far as i know, I'm not part of or starting any "trends." I just have a particular concern for children from Afghanistan for my own personal reasons - and I certainly don't want to break any families up, either, but if there are truly unwanted disconnect children (and there ARE plenty of those) why shouldn't I adopt one of them and create a family? (Would you be in favor of preserving adopted families?)

Answer 1

I don't think you can actually

Answer 2

Thumb me down for this if you will but here's my 2 cents:

With so many children right in your own country looking to be adopted..... why go anywhere else?

All children deserve families I think it's great that your looking into adopting, but with the expenses involved in adopting a foreign child, why not adopt here in your country & put the excess money into a college fund to give the child a great future?

Answer 3

I don't know that it's possible.

www.adoptive-parenting.com

check international adoptions

Answer 4

As someone who is currently looking into adopting a child internationally, I am offended that people would suggest that I should "look out for my own kind first."  First of all, we are all humans, and the baby girls who are starving in Chinese orphanages deserve my attention as much as a child here.  Second, the waiting list for a newborn infant in the United States is YEARS long.  That is not to say that older children don't need loving homes as well, but babies in the Unites States are adopted before they are even born.  On the contrary, in some countries they have street sweepers whose occupation is to go around the gutters and collect the babies that people have abandoned.  But yes, let's ignore the rest of the world for the privilege of sitting on the waiting list for years for one of "our own kind."

Answer 5

Oh, is this the next trendy locale to adopt from?

http://www.unicef.org/media/media_41918....

If you're so concerned about children from this war-torn country, why not join the Peace Corps instead of adding to a child's pain and loss?

Answer 6

I know so many Afghans and it's hard for me to imagine the orphans in that country have zero realatives because they generally have huge familes and I mean huge! Maybe it's more of the Hazara population. I dunno but here's a website.

http://www.afghanorphans.org/

Answer 7

Why don't you adopt a child from this country?

There are thousands wherever you live.

Look out for your own kind first!

Answer 8

Afghanastan does not participate in international adoption.

Answer 9

I don't think so--  read on:

"In general, intercountry adoptions are private civil legal matters governed by the laws of the children's home country, which has the primary responsibility and jurisdiction for deciding what would be in the children's best interests.  The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has confirmed that Afghan law, which is based on Islamic Shari'a law, does not currently permit full adoptions as they are generally understood in the United States. "

US Department of State

Answer 10

No, sorry.  I would check your International Adoption Agencies in your area.