Adopting a Child in the Foster Care System

The focus this month is on finding families for the more than 100,000 children in the U.S. foster care system who are looking for permanent families. The steps to adopting a waiting child are similar to those in private agency and independent adoption, with some important differences.What You Need to KnowThere are several ways to approach adoption through the U.S. foster care system: 1. Adoption of a child or sibling group who has already been, or will be within a short period of time, legally released for adoption (parental rights terminated or relinquished); 2. Accept placement of a child, where the child's reunification with biological family is still a possibility. If reunification or other in-family placement isn't affected within a certain period of time, the child will be released for adoption by you (known as Foster-Adoption or Fost/Adopt). The process of working toward more than one goal for a child (reunification with parents, placement with family, adoption) is known as concurrent planning); 3. Foster parent adoption[/URL], where licensed foster parents proceed to adopt a child in their care. Who are the children?Visit the https://adoption.com/photolisting/ and meet them.You don't have to be rich, married, own a home, or be a saint to adopt a waiting child. To learn what it does take, contact your State Adoption Specialist https://adoption.com/directory/