What You Need to Know About the Hague Convention

I've been writing in teh ThinkingOfAdopting.com Newsletter about The Hague Convention on International Adoption and how it may affect adoption, especially from China and Guatemala (check out the 10/9/06 and 11/12/06 editions in my Newsletter Archive). If you're in the process of adopting internationally - especially if you're in the early stages - I recommend that you become familiar with it.

To help, I wanted to let you know that that the US Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs has published an excellent guide on the Hague Convention for prospective adoptive parents that I highly recommend to anyone who is adopting – regardless of the country. You'll note that The Hague Convention will require prospective adoptive parents to take 10 hours of training on topics including the intercountry adoption process, developmental risk factors associated with children from the expected country of origin, and attachment disorders.

ThinkingOfAdopting.com has and will continue to provide courses that meet these requirements and we will be happy to provide you with certificates of completion or will forward them directly to your adoption agency. You can view the guide by clicking on the following link:

The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption:
A Guide for Prospective Adoptive Parents