Shared List Stats

A China adoption advocacy blog, Red Thread Advocates, recently wrote a blog post about the make-up of the Shared List.  The CCCWA maintains what is called a "shared list" of children available for adoption who have not been matched through orphanage partnerships, from an agency's designated list (made up of files agencies pull from the Shared List) or on release night when all the files newly prepared are released to the Shared List.  Under all three scenarios, young minor needs children (especially girls) are matched almost instantly.  Over 2,000 children at any one time wait on the list to be chosen. Many wait years to be matched and some turn 14 and age out.  Since it's become a personal mission of mine to change the public perception that the only children available for adoption from China are girls, I want to mention that almost three-fourths of the children on the Shared List are boys.