(Instead, he gets in the car and begs money from me!)

Now see, that is where the money should be begged from...

Now, lynne, all that money goes to where it usually goes to, lawyers...who have their mitts in everything...they write the papers out and, hopefully, they are legal when you sign them!
As for adopting in the US...well, perish the thought a couple, as did happen in CA, adopt a little boy, then abused him till he died...turned out the 'couple' weren't checked out enough and he and 'she' weren't...it was he and he and they were a bit NUTS...and violent. No, nothing against gays, just against anyone who would pretend being female and brutalize a child, toddler, BTW.

I do agree with WTH that we should be spending more time, money and energy with kids AT HOME...not only with adoptions but with spending money on education...on building...homes, schools, hospitals...which we say we are going to do in...name your impoverished country...today it is IRAQ...yet we have yet to do any good there. We are out to save the world while our own children live in poverty without medical insurance coverage, and now with budget cuts to education, ala ARNOLD...sheesh.
Pardon my political diatribe...