In my Hoping to Adopt blog my last post was about the difficulty in finding happy stories about adoption in the news. It seems like all anyone wants to write about are horror stories - disruptions, biological parents returning to claim the child, paperwork filed incorrectly, scams. I did finally find one hopeful adoption story on page 34 of Google's News search (as long as I took out the word "Madonna") but that's it.

So I'm looking elsewhere for the feel-good stories. The International Adoption Articles Directory, which usually hosts articles about medical problems and problematic situations in international adoption (they're not trying to be negative - it's an informational source), happens to have this article: "Patience and leap of faith overcame infertility and fears of parenthood," by Marie Pruden. The article is about how the author and her husband adopted three Russian children, ages 10, 10, and 9, when she and her husband were in their 50s.

Read the article if you want to feel good. It's the story of a couple who married late, couldn't have children, and basically worked for 15 years before they both, separately and simultaneously, decided they wanted to adopt. The way they went about the actual adoption (selection of children by picture, one trip to meet and adopt them, etc.) is a little unusual, but perhaps they were working with a program I'm not familiar with. In any case, it seems that this is truly a happy, successful adoption story...