A ministry for adoptive families in need of short-term housing while in Kiev

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Booked!

Hello adoptive friends!  I'm headed to southern Ukraine to do a camp for the these last two weeks of the month and while I'm away I've got two sets of adoptive friends staying at the hospitality house-- so I'm booked through about July 3rd at this point!  Email me after that if you are interested in July dates...I'm headed to no email access for the next couple weeks!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

New Ukrainian Adoption Statistics

Below are recently given adoption statistics for Ukraine.

These are the official Government stats on adoptions in Ukraine for the year 2010.  You will first see a break down of adoptions by foreign families in the first grouping of numbers, and then a break down of adoptions by Ukrainian families in the second grouping.  The left hand column is the region of Ukraine that the adoption took place.  The first list of numbers is the total adoptions in that region (grand total at bottom) and then the following columns break it down by age of the child that was adopted.  

Unfortunately the statistics do not provide information to special needs kids, HIV+, downs syndrome and other health issues.  In my opinion, these cases would make up most of the foreign adoptions of children aged 3 year olds and younger.

You will also notice the large percentage of adoptions from the eastern regions and low numbers in the western regions.  The main factor in this is the socio-economics in the two sides of the country.  The east side of the country has a higher percentage of drug users, alcoholics, prostitution, broken homes and as a result more orphanages and orphans.  In contrast the economy and life style in the west are a bit better and as a result, so is the family unit.  There are also more families in the west that are willing to take children into care.

Here are the numbers.....

Adoptions in Ukraine by Foreign Families by Region
Total Children
Under 1
1-2 yrs
3-5 yrs
6-10 yrs
11-17 yrs
Crimea
70
2
11
11
33
13
Vinitsa
22
0
2
2
12
6
Volyn
0
0
0
0
0
0
Dnipropetrovsk
86
2
12
13
43
16
Donetsk
187
1
48
46
66
26
Zhitomer
31
0
3
6
18
4
Zakarpatia
17
0
2
6
9
0
Zaprozhzha
101
4
19
17
40
21
Іvano-Frankivsk
0
0
0
0
0
0
Кyiv
102
3
9
21
48
21
Kirovograd
56
4
9
12
18
13
Lugansk
94
6
15
12
33
28
Lviv
8
0
2
2
4
0
Mikolaev
44
0
13
12
15
4
Odessa
108
4
23
25
36
20
Poltava
29
3
7
7
8
4
Rivne
4
0
2
2
0
0
Sumy
31
0
7
2
4
18
Ternopil
4
0
0
0
4
0
Kharkiv
54
2
8
13
28
3
Kherson
16
2
4
2
6
2
Khmelnytski
23
1
11
4
6
1
Cherkasy
29
1
3
6
12
7
Chernivtsi
6
0
1
2
2
1
Chernigiv
39
1
11
10
11
6
Kyiv city
27
1
3
5
7
11
Sevastopol city
14
1
3
4
2
4
Total adoptions:
1202
38
228
242
465
229



Adoptions in Ukraine  by Ukrainian families
Total Children
Under 1
1-2 yrs
3-5 yrs
6-10 yrs
11-17 yrs
Crimea
145
55
42
33
12
3
Vinitsa
64
22
17
16
7
2
Volyn
45
19
10
10
4
2
Dnipropetrovsk
200
95
52
38
10
5
Donetsk
279
133
78
44
17
7
Zhitomer
52
18
19
13
1
1
Zakarpatia
77
26
17
24
7
3
Zaprozhzha
111
60
28
13
6
4
Іvano-Frankivsk
24
9
5
4
4
2
Кyiv
118
47
26
23
19
3
Kirovograd
84
33
24
17
8
2
Lugansk
163
87
41
25
9
1
Lviv
62
30
10
13
9
0
Mikolaev
52
18
20
8
5
1
Odessa
143
59
48
27
5
4
Poltava
68
28
15
20
5
0
Rivne
50
11
15
17
7
0
Sumy
38
16
16
5
1
0
Ternopil
20
4
5
6
5
0
Kharkiv
105
58
30
13
4
0
Kherson
79
36
21
12
9
1
Khmelnestsky
27
9
13
4
1
0
Cherkasy
57
33
13
6
4
1
Chernivtsi
23
5
9
5
3
1
Chernigiv
45
14
18
8
3
2
Kiev city
78
40
15
9
10
4
Sevastopol city
38
19
7
7
4
1
Total adoptions:
2247
984
614
420
179
50

Hope you found these helpful and interesting.