Watch as John and Jacqui Receive Their Referral
For an adoptive parent, receiving your referral is a life changing moment. This is the phone call where you find out the name, age, sex, and date of birth of your child, in effect transforming you from a parent-to-be to a parent. We were lucky enough to be with John and Jacqui when they received the phone call that would change their lives. Click on the video below to watch as John and Jacqui officially become parents to Min Xin Pei, a little girl from China.
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Oh my goodness. Another video
I had tears in my eyes just watching Jacqui cry with relief. xo
I am very interested to learn about your movie and your site. I have recently begun the long wait to adopt a child from China. I am very interested in raising awareness of inter-cultural/racial families formed through marriage as well as through adoption. My goal is to challenge what a family is. I appreciate you making this film and I would love to know where I can see it. I am a member of an independent film society and would love to get the movie shown here in our local theatre. I will definitely be connecting to your site.
As an adoptive parent of a beautiful, two-year old boy, I cannot help but share in your tears. There is nothing more wonderful than becoming a mother. And for those of us who had to wait for this, the moment is even more joyous. Thank you for sharing your story.
We have two daughters from Chian and I was moved to tears watchign the video.
I am eagerly waiting this movie . I hope the writters will continue to look into adoption and really get the information accurate so that the many people watchign it really see how it is done. Adoption is a wonderful thing, I woudl caution that it does nto always go as planned.
Hoping not to sound to critical but for an example of something I can see I would change: Above on your intro to the movie it states that they recieved the call and how they are “officially become the parents”.
That simply is not true. There is tons of paper work and miles to travel before they are offically parents. I would caution making it that simple. I have seen and heard of many times when after the refferal the adoption of that particular child not going through. Sometimes the child gets really ill, or even dies.SOmetimes there are mix-ups in the referrals. Sometimes there has been little explaination but the refered chidl is no longer available.Either way there is heartbreak.
Yes, as the adoptive parents we are relieved after the referral but still there is an uneasiness as anything can still happen.
I woudl like for themovie to keep it real, not all roses. It is best for everyone for the movie to be real.
My agency promised by the end of February 2006 they would call us. I had forgotten the date and was at work when the called me around 10AM. I am not sure I know what happened the rest of the day. I called my wife and our extended families. The next day we met with the Agency and received our referral in person. It didn’t matter, we just took one look at her and signed our “Red Letter.” I think that night it finally set in what was going on and I realized, because of the wait, that the referral is not the end but just the beginning. We traveled 5 weeks later and returned back to California with XiaFeng, a very beautiful 8.5 month little girl on April 19th. She will be 2 in July and every day we realize how blessed we are to have her in our life.
It brings back memories of January 23, 2003, and the phone call we received that morning. Beautiful! Can’t wait to see the movie.