Domestic Adoption

Seeing as other countries love the gay tourist money but don't so much like the gay's raising their kids, we decided to look at domestic adoption.

I might be simplifying this system but going through a private agency, we would apply to adopt, do six months of home study, talk to a whole bunch of social worker types, pay about $20,000 and then go on a list. If you are an unwed mother out in the world - opps, sorry - out in Canada - and you decide you want to put your baby up for adoption, you can specify what type of family you would like your little wee bundle of joy to go to. Then you get a few profiles of families and you can choose your favourite. Sort of like baby internet dating.

So, we might be on the adoption list for a week, a month, a year or forever. If we aren't an exciting two dad family saving the world, offering up private school and a home and cottage we might not make the grade. Actually, if we had the money to offer those things, we could probably purchase a baby on the internet somewhere - and it would be way easier.

We contacted a couple of gay families that had adopted domestically, chatted with them, learned they had no life other than their children. Right then and there we decided that we probably didn't want a newborn - nor did we want to pay $20,000 for a child. What are the two gay dads to do ...