Some hopeful adoptive parents choose to adopt children who are very close in age (under 9 months apart) who are not biologically related. This process is called artificial twinning, and many in the adoption world discourage it.

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Many hopeful adoptive couples seek to adopt artificial twins through international adoption. Because there are so many children waiting to be adopted internationally, finding two children close in age to adopt is not hard to do (assuming the children's birth country allows artificial twinning). By adopting... more

A couple I know is pursuing an adoption from Vietnam. They are hoping to adopt two children (unrelated) at the same time, preferably the same age. this practice is called artificial twinning, and many adoption professionals counsel people against it, but my friends think that since they want to eventually adopt two children, that it will be simpler if they get two at once. Their agency is trying to dissuade them of this idea and frankly, I hope they succeed.

Here's a post I wrote earlier on my Russian adoption blog... more