No More Single-Parent Adoptions

Well, I guess my family can stop worrying about me becoming the “Crazy Chinese Kids Lady” – you know, like the Crazy Cat Lady, except the “Crazy Chinese Kids Lady” collects Chinese kids instead of cats. That won’t be me. My little family will be officially finished when Elizabeth comes home. The folks at the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) have decided that as of May 1, 2007 no more single parents will be allowed to adopt children from China. What a sad, sad decision this is for thousands of families – and even sadder for the children who will never be adopted. They (the CCAA) say they have twice as many families waiting to adopt as they do children available for adoption. So, I guess they figure they can be a little more choosy about who they allow to adopt. And everyone know a two-parent family is always better than a single-parent family (cough, cough, choke, choke – gag). At any rate, I am just thankful that I am already logged in and waiting for mei-mei. I can’t even imagine how heart-broken I would be if I were one of the many single women who will now have to give up on their dream of a beautiful Chinese daughter. It makes me weepy to even think about it.