In a number of places in the International Adoption community people are talking about children feeling that they were the parents "Last Choice".
In our case I have to say that International Adoption was not our last choice, it was just another choice.
We started out our marriage trying to have a child the old fashioned way, and we tried that for quite a few years before we started talking about other options.
After talking about it for a while and talking to friends who had adopted we decided to work on an adoption from China.
There were a number of other options available, but this was the one that we thought best fit our circumstances.
Even with the long and difficult wait I still believe it is the right choice for us, but that does not make it easier as we sit and wait with no information.