Unexpected adoption agency shutdown leaves 140 B.C. families in limbo
The couple spent $12,000, underwent numerous background checks, had a home study and took part in an educational course. They were registered in the domestic adoption program and on the wait list to adopt a South African child when they received an announcement from Choices last week. The email informed them Choices was closing as of May 31, staff were working to find another agency to take on the Pearsons' file and they would be in touch, Patricia Pearson said.
WATCH: U.S. couple couldn't bring adopted Ethiopian child home after country changed its laws. Story continues below.changes to international adoption policies Fewer children in Canada are being put up for adoption as well, Cowell added, as the stigma around teenagers or young women getting pregnant has been reduced.to save the agency that has garnered more than 800 signatures. She hopes the ministry might step in and provide some funding.Isabelle Smit, 10, with her mother Kristen Lundgren in Esquimalt, B.C., on Tuesday, February 20, 2018. International adoption rates have dramatically decreased in Canada in recent years.
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