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U.S. Foster Adoptive Families

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- Posted by NPNFEEF to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Sep 21, 2017 at 6:29pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Trauma Related

The children that my husband and I are adopting have older siblings that are placed in another pre-adoptive home. The kids’ Guardian Ad Litem talked with both families and we…
- Posted by FosterToAdopt to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Sep 14, 2017 at 6:46pm | 11 Comments | Post a reply
Adopting out of birth order

I’m curious about people’s experiences adopting out of birth order. We have one beautiful little girl, almost 3.5, whom joined our family at 14.5 months. We had had planned on…
- Posted by thegoldings to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Aug 23, 2017 at 3:54am | 5 Comments | Post a reply
Becoming a Party to the Action

Hi, We have been foster a sibling set and are trying to seek TPR and Adoption. We’ve had one 1 child for almost 15 months, 1 for 14 months, and…
- Posted by ccunningham to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Aug 22, 2017 at 3:31pm | 7 Comments | Post a reply
Perspectives on names

Wondering your perspective on this situation…. We are fostering a 9 month old, who came into our home at 7 months. The name on his paperwork and also conveyed by…
- Posted by zoe79 to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Aug 14, 2017 at 4:54am | 18 Comments | Post a reply
Disrupt or ride it out?

Two months ago we got a call for two siblings. Newborn and her sister 13 months old. Caseworker said TPR might happen but it’s still early. We fell in love…
- Posted by Charming_Ell to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Jul 29, 2017 at 9:47pm | 26 Comments | Post a reply
PhD study, Need Married Moms

Topic: Perceptions of Competence and Satisfaction in Parenting Eligibility: 1) Married mom who adopted her first child that is now between 5 and 18 years. 2)…
- Posted by CoquatMom to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Jul 29, 2017 at 3:38pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Newborn photo company

A while back someone posted the name of a company that takes photos of newborns in the hospital for parents to buy. What is the name of this service?
- Posted by Supdub to U.S. Foster Adoptive Families on Jul 15, 2017 at 2:56am | 2 Comments | Post a reply