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State Agency: Help or Hindrance?

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We have now adopted five maternal brothers out of our state’s foster system. We started the process when we took the first child in February, 2003. We were finally free of all responsibilities to the state when the fifth child was adopted in January, 2006. Frequently, the people working for the state were a hindrance to the process. I can give several examples. By May, 2003, we had the first four boys, one of whom was a newborn, in our home. In a short period of time, they had moved from an abusive home, to a shelter, to a foster … Continue reading →

The State Adoption Home Study: Getting Started.

Kathy and Rachel have done a wonderful job explaining the Home Study process for Private Domestic Infant adoption and International adoption. I thought I would write a Blog about the Home Study process for adopting a baby or child from the United States Foster care systems. In most states the cost of a Foster to Adopt or Straight Pre Adoptive Home Study is FREE. The fact is our income taxes currently pay to support more then 500,000 children in the foster care system with a third of these children waiting for adoptive families. Every working American currently supports these children … Continue reading →