Here’s a good site for International Adoption. The founders of this organization, Harry and Bertha Holt, were the first couple to bring over Korean orphans. This couple started “International Adoption” as we know it today. After the Korean War they found numerous children without families or homes in a crowded orphanage. I don’t remember the exact number of Korean children they personally adopted but it was around 20.

Today the organization runs adoptions in the following countries:
• China
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• India
• Korea
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Uganda
• United States
• Vietnam

[Please register to see this link Register]

Thanks for the helpful post.

That is an interesting resource. I have a friend who adopted a Thai child, but did not go through this agency. I don't know why though.

International adoptions are definately on the rise and oftern becasue the process, though quite expensive at times, is not riddled with the red tape that often follows adoption in the states. I also wonder sometimes if international adoptions are so prevelant because of the court system in the US where it seems (almost) any decision can be overturned by the courts in favor of the birth parents who change their minds (sometiems long after an adoption is done.