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As you all know, we are very passionate about adoption in our home! I have promised to share any potential adoption situations that I become aware of for those of you who are currently in the waiting process at various adoption agencies, or know of people who are…

I received this email from a very close family friend this morning, at the request of one of his closest friends. I entirely trust our family friend, who has been part of my church congregation for over 15 years and is now a Bishop in the LDS church. My guess is that these will be Utah placements, but if you live outside of Utah… feel free to inquire anyway.

If you are interested in adopting, or know of a family that is looking to adopt, please pass this information along to them!  I have seen the photos of these children and they are all gorgeous!

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Dear Friends,

As you know my wife Debbie and I have adopted three children from eastern Europe, two brothers (7 and 13 at the time) from Stravropol, Russia in 2005 and a 13 year-old girl from Mariupol, Ukraine in 2009. We have been very happy with these kids and they have bonded very well with our family.

Now we have the opportunity to bring 13 kids from Ukraine here to Utah to look for adoptive families. These kids are from the same Ukraine orphanage as our daughter. I am in the process of organizing their visit. That is why I am writing you. I am looking for potential families for these kids. The possible list of kids who will be traveling here includes 8 boys and 5 girls, including two sets of brothers, although one of the brothers is too young to travel to the US (see the list below). Their ages range from 5 to 14. The list of kids coming could change as we get closer to the time of their arrival. We expect them to be arriving in Utah on July 22 and staying until August 4. (The children’s photos, in PDF format, can be made available by email upon request).

Boys
Dmytro F. (Age 9)
Yevgen (Age 9)
Sergiy (Age 13)
Dmytro S. (Age 13)
Ruslan (Age 14)

Girls
Viktoriya R. (Age 6)
Yuliya (Age 7)
Viktoriya T. (Age 13)
Mariya (Age 14)
Tetiana (Age 14)

Siblings (all brothers)
Sergey & Maksym (Ages 13 & 5)
Volodymyr & Yuriy (Ages 13 & 6)

Typically when a family wants to adopt from a foreign country they meet with the adoption officials of that country. They are then given a referral of a child. The family then travels to the child’s orphanage and after meeting and spending time with the child the family then decides whether to adopt that child or not.

The benefit of this kind of adoption program is that the kids that are coming here have been hand picked by our adoption worker in Ukraine and the orphanage directors as the kids most likely to adapt and bond to an adoptive family. These kids aren’t selected by an adoption official in Kiev that has never seen let alone known the child but by someone who knows them very well and interacts them on a daily basis. A prospective adoptive family gets to spend time with the child here in the US. The family can host the child for a couple of days or longer in their own homes and see how the child adapts to them.

If you know of a family that might be interested in adopting one of these kids, please forward this email to them and have them contact me via email (robjolley@msn.com) or my cell phone (801) 259-7034.

Better yet, please forward this email to your email contact list and FaceBook friends. The more people that see this email the more likely potential adoptive families will be contacted. Even if you don’t think one of your contacts would be interested, please send this email to them anyway. They may know someone who might be interested.

Below are some statistics regarding orphans in Ukraine and why it is critical to find families for these kids:

• After the age of 5, a Ukraine orphan only has a 20% chance to be adopted.
• Orphans “graduate” from the system at the age of 16.
• They will be homeless, alone and lacking the education necessary to provide for themselves.
• 10% will have committed suicide by their 18th birthday.
• 60% of the girls will end up in prostitution.
• 70% of the boys will enter a life of crime.
• Only 20% will find work.

And… over 80% of the children who come to the U.S. on hosting programs like the one we are doing with these kids meet families who adopt them!

As you can see from these statistics, the future of these kids is very bleak if they are not adopted. So anything you can do to help these kids find their “forever” families will have a life-changing impact on their lives!

But equally important, the families that adopt these kids will have a life-changing impact on their own lives as well. This has been the case for me, my wife and family. We are so grateful that we found three of our children through similar hosting programs.

Thanks,

Rob

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As always, there are inherant risks with any adoption so please know that we at Adopt a ‘Do – Cute Girls Hairstyles are simply informing you of available situations when they are available. 

The successful or non-successful placement of any situation is completely out of our control.  Also, if you are considering adoption, it is a very good idea to be ‘homestudy ready’ so that you can quickly act when an ideal situation is placed before you.

All the best,

I have been thinking about this for a long time, and for some reason have been feeling a huge sense of urgency about it.  Many of you have already had a chance to read Our Adoption Story.

In reading it, you have recognized that at the time we felt that our family was not complete after our youngest daughter was born, and we could no longer have another child on our own. That amazing journey led to the adoption of our beautiful son. We love him so much and he is such an integral part of our family!

Well, that little longing feeling has again begun to creep into our hearts and thoughts! We have debated whether or not our family is “complete” because, let’s be honest… five children is already a BIG family! But, we also feel strongly that there is room in our family and that our little guy needs a sibling that looks like him. We don’t want him to ever feel alienated, on an island, so to speak, because he looks so different than the rest of us. 

Before signing with an agency, it is common for adoptive couples to reach out to friends/acquaintances and let them know of their desire to adopt, should anyone know of a situation where a birthmother (for her own reasons) would be placing a baby or child. We never did this the first time, because we were very private and unsure of all the unknowns going “out of system”. We did not want anyone to know until we knew for sure it would happen.  This time around, with a different perspective, we thought we would give it a try.

We now have our homestudy completed, and after much thought, we have decided to post about our desire on my website. It’s a deeply personal desire, but we have received such warm feedback from all of you on our 1st adoption experience that we thought we would reach out to all of you. Since I consider each of you friends,  who have come to know my family over the past few years, I would ask that if you know of a potential adoptive situation… could you let me know?

Although my blog passion is for hair and little girl fashion, with a dabbling of adoption spread throughout… my true passion is as a mother. We have a happy, happy home full of little children giggles and family time! It is evermore apparent that we truly feel like our family is not yet whole or complete.

We are hoping for a child under one year of age, preferably newborn, but would be open to all situations. We would obviously prefer an AA or a biracial mix for reasons mentioned above, but any ethnicity is welcome. Gender doesn’t matter… as we are sort of hoping for a surprise with that! 

No matter the many situations we are presented with, rest assured that I will post about them here.  I know there are many of you who either are in the adoptive system now, or know of someone who is waiting also.  I want this site to contiue matching beautiful babies to wonderful adoptive homes, as we have done over the past two years.

Somewhere out there is a mother who is about to make the toughest decision of her life, one that she feels will be of the best interests and benefit for her and the child. For our case, if that choice is adoption – we sincerely hope she would consider our family.

Thanks for allowing me to share these very personal feelings.  I love you all!