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Hi,
We are stationed overseas and will not know leave for our next duty stationed until November 2005 !!
We have two sons whom we've adopted as newborns and working on adopting #3.
However, after three infant adoptions we are looking to adopt an older child.
I found a handsome boy thru adoption.com state listing. Can we foster- adopt even though we are not stationed in the U.S. ?Texas is DH home of residency.
Or do we have to wait until we are stationed back in the U.S. ? I would really hate to wait another 2 years to adopt an older child.
Yasta... mom to two
working on #3
and desire 1 more to make our family complete
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We have just finished our Home Study overseas and you definately do not have to wait to start.There are different ways of getting started, but we are going to adopt a child out of foster care who is released for adoption. Depending on which service you are with, you could contact the Family Center, Social Work services, etc. They may be able to direct you towards an individual who could do your home study. Some services will offer some of the legal help, and others won't help with adoptions at all. You aren't in Germany are you? Our Social Worker has been fantastic! Good luck getting started on #3! Michelle
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micki/mommy,
How did you do it ? How old is your son or daughter? Which state did you use to adopt your child?
We are having our homestudy done privately, however, maybe we should have our family service center do it ?
Did you use social services from the hospital ?
We are stationed in Japan ?
Thanks in advance for giving me hope.
Yasta
OK, so I typed out my reply and it disappeared and logged me out at the same time! I will type faster this time, I guess!
We searched online for a social worker who could do our home study here in Germany, and it turned out that she and my husband had worked a few cases together and they get along really well (he is in "law enforcement") and so we got started right away with her. I don't think anyone HAS to go through social work services, it just happens that she works there. She used to work in Japan, and helped people there with their homestudies while there, so it is definately do-able!
We have two biological children who are a 6 year old girl and a 4 year old boy. We are looking for a child (female) or sibling group who are younger than our oldest. We chose to look first at our home state of Florida just because we wanted to help "at home" if we could. We are done with our home study and looking at all of the web sites that we can find in hopes of seeing "that face", as well as calling about some. I think that for us this will be the hard part! We had most of the paperwork gathered because of always being ready for anything like we all have to be in the military! The hard part for us will be trying to decide on which child/children we will be bringing home...and finding them in the first place!
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I forgot to mention support groups, we don't have one here in Stuttgart either, because we have a clinic and not a hospital with psychiatrists and lots of help with special needs or interests, but I would guess that depending on the service, if the need in a community grows they would start up a group whether through our clinics or community services organizations.
This would be a great opportunity for you to meet some of the agencies or find the easiest route to go about it.
Let me know if you want any additional info about the symposium. It helped us out a lot with our adoption. By the way, would you happen to know Maurice Evans? He is stationed in Stuttgard as well.
Susi
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