Can children from orphanage choose their adopters?

These are good questions.. but orphanages vary in size, quality, quantity, etc. throughout the world. You may need to focus on one country.. education is uneven.. some parts of the world do not educate “orphans” and some do. read more

This orphanage housed children who usually had some family relations somewhere and those relations, for various reasons, had to place the children in the orphanage. The children were not, as so many imagine, completely devoid of family ties. There was usually a guardian of some type (mine was a Presbyterian minister who had been a family friend). So, there was someone to sign over the child to the orphanage. Because of this model, very few of the orphans I knew were eligible for adoption. read more

If one member of a couple wants to choose a particular child, and the other doesn't, there can be quite a good bit of strain on the marriage. If the spouse who wants the child prevails, and the child turns out to have significant problems, there could be blame and recriminations. read more