Adoption of Haitian Children

So I know that my current event this week was also on the earth quake in Haiti, but what can I say it's just really been on my mind this week. I wanted to use this "personal post" to talk about specifically about one of the impacts the earthquake in Haiti has had on families here in the United States. The other night on the news, in the midst of the coverage of the status in Haiti, there were clips of American families who had been planing to adopt a child from Haiti. I totally had never even thought about this before, and it just really made me think. These families had made it through all the paperwork and interviewing and background checks (which can be an extremely long process), and had met the children they were adopting, and were simply just waiting to bring them home. It was really sad to see the pain these families were going through as they loved these children as their own, and now some of them are not even sure if their child survived the earthquake. For those families that learned that their child had survived, they were also told that the orphanages had collapsed, and that all the paperwork had been destroyed, and that it was going to be very difficult to have a legal adoption anytime soon. I cannot imagine what these parents are going through seeing pictures of the suffering in Haiti and knowing that even those who have survived are struggling to get water and food.