Adoption from Poland for a 50% Polish?

My husband and I are American, but my mother is ethnically 100% Polish, making me 50% Polish. We would like to adopt a child, and would love for he or she to be Polish, since we have a deep respect for and love of Polish culture. We are new to adoption, and are looking for a reputable American agency to handle a Polish adoption. I can only find one agency - St. Mary's. Does anyone have any advice about how to proceed? Thank you.

I wish you luck, I will re-introduce so that maybe someone who is knowledgable can help out..

I would check to see how Polish law concerns this. It may or may not have been updated in recent years. You want to make sure that there are no difficulties before you proceed.

Check the other threads on polishforums. There is some good info in there somewhere.

You might find an adoption agency in Poland who can act on your behalf.

Approach the Polish Embassy and ask them. They might have a list of trusted agencies.

It's very expensive and frustrating proposition I’ll tell you right now. Go for China or Latin America.

You might find this film on adopting from Poland interesting:

filmbaby.com/films/951
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_Miles

My brother, sister and several friends adopted from Poland. An older child is less expensive to adopt and siblings are easier to adopt or a child with minor defects.

It is expensive like all adoptions, but you get a tax credit for it. When adopting in the US you can get up to $10.000 tax credit at the end of the year even if the adotion isn't finalized yet. With international adoptions, to get the tax credit it has to be finalized.

With domestic adoptions many are "open adoptions" where you have to contact the birth mother and tell her about her child. There are cases where she visits the child and sometimes even takes it back.

With international adoptions you don't have to worry about that.

Poland is a party to the Hague Convention which regulates adoptions matters.
I was told by Mr Tadeusz Pudłowski, who heads Warsaw's Publiczny Ośrodek Adopcyno-Opiekuńczy, that foreign adopting parents stand a better chance if willing to accept three siblings, children of 10 or older or infants with birth defects.

He said prospective adopters should go through an accredited adoption agency in their area:

adoption.state.gov/hague/accreditation/agencies.html

Hi Sera. My wife and I adopted our son Mateusz from Gdansk Poland on December 23, 2004. I would be glad to discuss our adoption process with you if you like. I would be happy to give you my e-mail and/or telephone number. Have a great day. Mike

Hi Mike,
My husband & I are starting the adoption process and would like to adopt from Poland. We are both of Polish descent & speak it fluently. Can you tell me more about the adoptive process? Thanks.

Hi Janica. My wife and I went through Catholic Charities out of Chicago Illionois. We live in Pennsylvania but were still able to go through them to adopt our son. You can go to their website and they have information on it regarding the process. However, don't believe everything on it. It was a very frustrating process but in our case it was very well worth it. Mateusz is very bright and he does not have any cognitive, physical, and/or emotional disabilities. I would be very happy to discuss what we had to go through to adopt our son with you. However, it would be a lot easier to discuss it by telephone. If you like I would be happy to give you my telephone number. You can also reach me using my school e-mail which is mzeglen@carmarea.org. I am a school psychologist so I check this e-mail much more frequently then the messages on the Polish Forum.