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U.S. Foster Adoptive Families

For parents of children adopted from U.S. foster care.

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Newbie Looking For Direction

Hi all. My husband and I are wanting to adopt an older child from foster care close in age to our son (biological) who will soon be 5. We’re really…
- Posted by MSGrayum to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on May 17, 2013 at 8:27pm | 8 Comments | Post a reply
Adoptive family experiences with kids from US Foster Care?

Hi! I’m a single female (43yrs) living in MN and have started the adoption process. I’m interested in adopting a child or sibling pair. But, after going through all the…
- Posted by DGmarie1127 to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on May 17, 2013 at 2:23pm | 8 Comments | Post a reply
Experience with Concurrent Placement

I thought I’d ask this here again to hear some additional experiences…if you’ve replied already, again, I think you. We are in California and are awaiting our finalization of being…
- Posted by mumstheword to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on May 16, 2013 at 7:52am | 2 Comments | Post a reply
certified for fost/ adopt waiting a long t for a lower risk placement.

It has been more than a year since I started the fost/adopt process and I definetly underestimated how long it would take. I accepted one placement since becoming certified and…
- Posted by jam mom to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Apr 30, 2013 at 1:27pm | 7 Comments | Post a reply
Last visit for biological mom

Our foster girsl ages 5 and almost 4 are seeing their bio mother for the last time this week. She has relinquished her rights and we plan on adopting them.…
- Posted by k9kaos to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Apr 29, 2013 at 7:36pm | 3 Comments | Post a reply
Last visit for biological mom

Our foster girsl ages 5 and almost 4 are seeing their bio mother for the last time this week. She has relinquished her rights and we plan on adopting them.…
- Posted by k9kaos to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Apr 29, 2013 at 7:35pm | 2 Comments | Post a reply
video

there is a nice video at http://www.youtube.com/user/NACAC called as big as my heart in case the link doesn’t work I went to you tube and wrote in nacac and as…
- Posted by Regina to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Apr 26, 2013 at 5:12pm | 1 Comment | Post a reply
setting limits during transition

How do you find that middle ground between what the professionals are telling you? Im a first time single mother. Ive recently had a 5 year old girl placed with…
- Posted by knb820 to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Apr 26, 2013 at 1:56am | 13 Comments | Post a reply