In the next phase of our researching, while we were looking into smaller agencies, Matt discovered that if we were to adopt a "waiting child", we could bring that child home even faster and some countries loosen their restrictions to adopt. That sounded great to me, but I had no idea what a waiting child was. Well, the term basically refers to a child that is in an orphanage or foster home waiting to be adopted. These children, for whatever reason, are unwanted, and haven't been connected with a forever family. If you're like me, that doesn't sound much different than what I would think of on my own when I think about adoption in general. I guess the biggest difference is that these children often have some sort of special need that makes it hard for others to choose to adopt them.
It turns out that some of these special needs aren't really that major. For example, birth marks can be a special need depending on the country. That's no big deal to us, but culturally that may be a big deal to someone else.
We found this website called Rainbow Kids that has a list of special needs, their definitions and what a child with that special need may need to become healthy or how their life may be like down the road. We were able to create a list of special needs we thought we were equipped to handle and decided to pursue a waiting child.
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