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Foster Care Adoption
What Experts Say
There are lots of children in the foster care system, and they're in need of loving homes. This is especially true of sibling groups and older kids.
In Adoption: Your Step-by-Step Guide, Mardie Caldwell points out that almost a quarter of the children currently in foster care will need to be adopted into permanent, safe homes.
Foster-to-adopt is usually free or the adoptive parents pay minor fees to the agency that facilitates and supervises the adoption. Hopeful parents work with their social worker to work out what situations they are open to. Some things to consider are:
- age of the child
- singleton or sibling group
- special needs, including physical or mental health issues
- legal risk or whether the child is already free to be adopted
- drug or alcohol issues in the birth parents
- open, semi-open, or closed adoption
- race and sex of child
The social worker will also take into consideration the hopeful adoptive parents' personal experience working with kids, the presence of children already in the home, and their ability to help a child follow a case plan already in place.
Some children in the foster care system receive financial subsidies to help their parents manage their care. You and your assigned social worker should discuss the possibility of help as you consider what kinds of special needs you feel comfortable considering.
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