Adoption time frame delay

Before our vacation, J. called up our social worker to see how our profile was doing: had it had any visitors, etc.  And our social worker told us that no, no one had looked at it yet, and, unfortunately, the time frame for the average time frame for a placement had gone from 10 months (which is what they told us when we applied) to 18 months.  He said it was a supply-demand thing that was readjusting itself. 

In my opinion, decode this and you will find that all of those would-be adoptive parents who had applied for the Russia program (now closed), the Guatemala program (closure is imminent when America ratifies the Hague Convention for Intercountry Adoption), and the China program (tightening its process) have now worked up profiles instead of dossiers and switched to domestic adoption.

I have to admit that, at this moment, I'm feeling on the pessimistic side that this second adoption will happen for us.  First we have to get picked, then someone has to commit to us and follow through with placement - not changing her mind - and then it all has to be legally finalized.  What are the chances that's all going to happen?  It all seems - well, out of our hands.  Really, really out of our hands.  And not likely to happen soon.  I know that an average of 18 months leaves room for the placements that happen just like that, but today I'm feeling our luck is the double-or-nothing kind: 36 months or not at all.