Still shocked. And grieved.
The adoption agency with which we were working has declared bankruptcy. We're done. I mean, we were likely going to be done this summer anyhow, since in 30 months we'd never even had any genuine birthmother contacts (a couple of phonies is all) and had decided not to renew our home study when it ran out this summer, but we certainly never expected this abrupt ending.
I don't think the agency did anything "wrong," as it were; I think it legitimately was a structural issue, that there are just a lot fewer birthmothers wanting to pursue adoption (due in large part to societal changes like the acceptability of being a single parent) than was true, say, 30 years ago; and at the same time, international adoption has become much more difficult so the number of prospective adoptive parents for domestic adoption has risen. Demand far exceeded supply and there's nothing really that an agency can do about that.
But geez. Sad panda here. :(
I don't think the agency did anything "wrong," as it were; I think it legitimately was a structural issue, that there are just a lot fewer birthmothers wanting to pursue adoption (due in large part to societal changes like the acceptability of being a single parent) than was true, say, 30 years ago; and at the same time, international adoption has become much more difficult so the number of prospective adoptive parents for domestic adoption has risen. Demand far exceeded supply and there's nothing really that an agency can do about that.
But geez. Sad panda here. :(