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Dissertation Survey

With permission I am posting the following: Hello, My name is Anne-Marie Fleckenstein, MA, LPC and I am a doctoral candidate at Fielding Graduate University. I…
- Posted by Anne-Marie to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Jan 17, 2019 at 2:57am | 0 Comments | Post a reply
ICPC wait times

We were matched with a 5 year old girl in OH foster care @ 3 weeks ago (post-TPR). The contract from the county in OH was just sent to our…
- Posted by nims to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Dec 21, 2018 at 3:55pm | 2 Comments | Post a reply
instant family

this is a new movie about adopting a sibling group from foster care. my friend just saw it and said she cried and laughed it was very good. Anyone seen…
- Posted by Regina to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Nov 30, 2018 at 2:04am | 4 Comments | Post a reply
Looking for advice on adoption party

My little girl turns 3 this year her adoption anniversary is a few days from her birthday. We was unable to do a adoption party for her after and wandered…
- Posted by Momma911 to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Aug 25, 2018 at 12:37pm | 4 Comments | Post a reply
Looking for advice to keep foster daughters

We’ve had our two foster daughters for over a year now. Birth parents didnt fo anything to complete their caseplan. The caseworker told us the case will most likely lead…
- Posted by Charming_Ell to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Aug 17, 2018 at 12:25am | 27 Comments | Post a reply
How did you summon the courage?

Hi all- Quick background: We have 1 biological child and are licensed to adopt from foster care in MA. We went through this process because I have always wanted to…
- Posted by maya to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Jul 24, 2018 at 9:22pm | 27 Comments | Post a reply
Foster as a job?

I’m going to throw this out here not to be a troll or start a fight but to give another perspective: as a FFY who was also adopted and then…
- Posted by NoraT to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Jul 21, 2018 at 8:23pm | 3 Comments | Post a reply
Early Parenthood Research

Dear Mother(s): You are invited to take part in the Transition to Parenthood survey conducted as part of a master’s thesis project at Mills College in Oakland, CA. All responses…
- Posted by TransitiontoParenthood to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Jun 18, 2018 at 6:53pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply

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