So, Ukraine's president dissolved their parliment last night. This is something many people have been waiting for him to do for many months now, and he finally did it. Of course the Russian-allied parliment refuses to follow this new order and have barricaded themselves in the parliment building. Here is the story on my favorite Kyiv news blog(written by an American expat living in Kyiv):
http://blog.kievukraine.info/
So, no one knows how or even if this will affect adoptions in any way. During the Orange Revolution back in 2004, adoptions were only disrupted for a month. Most people think there will no affect on adoptions this time though - the only thing slowing dossiers and appointments down right now is the new director of the SDA. Since the most recent one was removed from office, along with her deputies, no new director has officially been appointed (or they have, but havent taken office maybe?). The interim director is a man - a first time for the department of adoptions! Maybe that is good - men tend to be less emotional than women, so maybe things will be more predictable and less variable from day to day? Men also tend to delegate more - also something that may be good since the director's time is limited and under the women-directors, all adoptive parents met with the director, thus creating a bottleneck.
This political turmoil also means that the proposed bill to ban singles from adopting from Ukraine is also on hold since it never made it to its second reading and vote. When the new parliment is seated sometime in June(?), they may well have a completely different view of singles adopting. Lets all pray that they do! I have many single friends who want to adopt kids from Ukraine, and all of them would make great parents.
This is our new blog to document our journey to adopt three older Ukrainian girls. We live in Atlanta, Georgia USA
