What's taking so long?

It's coming up on two years (two years) since our all-important LID. So what's the holdup?

The simple answer is that the line got longer. The reason it got longer is that the Chinese began to refer fewer babies every month. And so a backlog grew. And grew. (And there are lots of theories as to why China began to refer fewer babies.)

Besides this, China changed the rules for adoption, and people hurried to get their paperwork in so they could be included under the old rules. This added to the people in line.


If you want to know more, here's a web site called Rumor Queen (a.k.a RQ). She does all kinds of projections, she has adopted two little girls from China and she is really into this stuff (though no one knows her true identity. Kind of like the Lone Ranger of Chinese adoption.)

Anyways, here's the link: http://chinaadopttalk.com/