<!--quoteo(post=350804:date=Feb 20 2009, 09&#58;58 AM:name=The Skipper)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Skipper &#064; Feb 20 2009, 09&#58;58 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=350804">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->And, the truth is??<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />aint that right.....<br /><br /> <br /><br />I just finished reading the first part of the Barriers &amp; Sucess factors in Adoption from Foster Care this is the report to Congress which outlines the findings of two adoption-research studies conducted as part of The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids. <a href="http://www.adoptuskids.org/images/resourceCenter/barriersReportCongress.pdf" target="_blank">Report</a><br /><br />In the first study, which is the one I focused on was a nationwide purposive sample of 300 families seeking to adopt children with <b>special needs (you are told at orientation that all the children in the system have &quot;special&quot; needs)</b>from the public child welfare system was selected, interviewed, and surveyed to determine actual and potential barriers to the completion of the adoption process.and after some dropped out for what ever reason it boils down to about 115 families  and this I thought summed it up prtty good...<br /><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Ninety-eight percent of the 98 families who had finalized adoptions and 82 percent of the 17 families with disrupted placements identified adoption process logistics as an agency barrier. <br />In fact, adoption process logistics generally were reported as an &#8213;overall barrier by increasingly more families as they moved further along in the adoption process<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />