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Update,Sept. 21, 2005: The Ukraine National Adoption Center advised that it will not be accepting any new dossiers. One of the reasons given is the failure of adoptive parents to provide the required post-adoption annual reports. Adoptions in progress will be allowed to continue unless adopting parents have not filed the annual report for a child adopted previously from Ukraine.

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I really think it's a good thing to see that adoption professionals somewhere are starting to get stricter about reporting policies, etc. I know that in the US, it can be very difficult to enforce reporting and "checking in" of any sort once a child is placed; most parents are so happy to have finally had the opportunity to adopt that once they add a child to their family, they tend not to take the time to check back with the agency and complete follow-up reports that can really help agencies improve the system for future adoptive and first parents, and ultimately could help decrease the amount of time, in the case of older children adopted, that children spend in foster care (which as has been discussed previously, is far too long!). And often because agencies are so inundated with work, and have so many children to keep track of, they give up and don't enforce some of the policies because there just is not enough time and money to do so. While this will make international adoption more difficult for those in the US, perhaps it will start making it a habit for adoptive parents to complete necessary paper-work instead of something that is forgotten, and ultimately help the system for everyone, and, particularly for the children.

This has to be a good thing for the children. If the parents are not following the requirements that Ukraine set out for adoption, then what else is going on in the home? I can understand forgetting for a little while, but don't you think that it would pop into your mind that you need to let the Ukrainian government know what is going on with the child that they allowed you to adopt? There should be strict requirements for any adoption and if this is one of the requirements that you knew about when you adopted the child, then you should definitely abide by it.

i was just wondering what stance the Ukraine has on gay singles adopting as im looking into adopting from the country at present.