Rewind to May 2005

We are the Young's from Long Island, New York. My name is Ann, and the reason for this rewind is to replay our adoption journey in its entirety, including this time the unnecessary heartbreak we as a family endured. As many visitors of our original blog have read ( Young Family Adoption Miracle ) we successfully adopted our daughter Leah from the city of Ust Kamenogorsk in Kazakhstan. However at the time of our adoption a private story was also unfolding and it became painfully clear 6 months after signing a contract with AIP that this agency had questionable and unethical practices.
Since the completion of our adoption many other families who signed on with AIP experienced the same type of devastating emotional pain therefore I feel compelled to document my experience in the hopes that our story will warn others about these types of adoption practices. What you will read in the following days are my opinions,observations,experiences and perceptions of the journey our family experienced adopting our beautiful daughter Leah.
For anyone in the adoption community who knows of our story, was a part of our story, or would like to add their opinion about our story to this blog I invite your comments.
As I begin this blog I come to realize this will be a living blog with a story that is continuing to unfold with a criminal investigation on going in California and a group of people coming together in the process of filing a civil suit to stop AIP and its owners from ever hurting innocent people again.
I pray this blog will help effect change and make the International Adoption journey just a bit easier....