Orange County families are growing increasingly diverse as more adoptive parents find their children abroad.

On parent-child night at any school in Orange County, it’s hard to ignore the cross-cultural families who are gradually becoming the norm. Whether you see single parents, infertile couples or even large families who want to balance out gender ratios, their stories are similar; and they all lead overseas – to China, Guatemala, Russia. Every year, as infertility rates rise and the number of adoptable babies within the U.S. drops, more prospective parents look to foreign orphanages for help. According to the U.S. Department of State, our country adopted more than 21,000 foreign children last year from countries as far away as Haiti, India, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and Thailand.

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