Hello

We are embarking on the adoption process ourselves. We had our first meeting with Johannesburg Child Welfare yesterday. I'm sorry to say but you are being unrealistic if you think you can adopt within two months. We waited two months just for the first appointment / introductory meeting with the social workers. I understand that the process takes anything between six months (at the earliest) and a year. Remember that there are a whole lot of legal hoops that you need to jump through. When a child is put up for adoption the welfare agency first needs to go to court and get the child made a ward of the State. The birth mother then has two months to change her mind - and that's just the beginning of the court process. Plus there are medical tests that need to be conducted, counselling, psycological assessments, home visits, references, criminal record / police clearance (which takes at least 6 weeks) - alot of red tape and waiting for court dates. Be prepared to wait nine months if you are lucky.

Don't give up - good luck!

In 2004 they told us at CMR 4 years. At Abba 2 years. We went to PROCARE in 2005, and our 1st Adoption took 8 months, 2nd Adoption in 2007, 3 weeks. It differs, lot of paper work, approval, availability of Babies, etc depends on the time frame...
Sometimes a birth mom would get 3 profiles to look thru, other times up to 7 so you could be passed because there a to many profiles to choose from...
Also it could be there is only 2 or 3 birth moms at that moment in the safe houses. A lot of things happens that we are not aware of. just enjoy this last few months together because once the baby is in da house! no more alone time for a while