single parent adoption

I adopted three babies from foster care as a single woman. I was only 23 years old when I brought my first darling baby home. He was 5 months old, and is now almost 8 years old. My second son was 5 weeks old and is now 5 years old. In January of 2005 I picked up my newborn daughter. Her adoption was finalized already in December. None of these adoptions cost me anything and they recieve subsides and medical coverage till they turn 18. These supports have been a tremendous blessing to my family. I am actually a stay at home mom right now! I can recomend foster adoption very highly!

hi, i am so happy about your decission.I love good hearted woman.My name is James and am an engineer.i also joined this Adoption site so i could adopt a child.But I do not have a wife.I have alot to do to help you about the adoption.I will really want to get to know you personaly and see if we couild help one another.Here is my personal email, hhrudijohn@yahoo.comYou can also chat with me on my msn messager. hhrudijames@hotmail.com

I was always under the impression that foster adoption rarely involved infants. Is it more common than I think or is yours a special case? I'm single and looking to adopt an infant and never thought foster adoption would be an option. Could you elaborate more on your situation process, either here in a pm to me? Thanks!!

hi, am i am realy happy for you and i really like your corrage.My name si James and am a single man.I love to adopt too and that is my original mession in this site.i am just so happy that i could also have the previlage to chat with other parent here.As much as i will love to have a child adopted here, but i have no woman in my life.i wish i could have a woman that will agree with me to adopt a child.I was so happy to find a good hearted woman like you.i hope i could get to meet you.here is my personal email address hhrudijohn@yahoo.comu can also chat with the same ID (hhrudijohn) also with msn messenegr hhrudijames@hotmail.com i will be really glad to read from you.

I know of several people who do foster care that have had infants placed with them. One of my friends got one directly from the hospital because the mom took drugs in the hospital. Of course it is important to note that they start as foster meaning that bio parents rights have not been terminated. They might get visitation. And if the parents meet the expectations of the social service plans then they might get the children back. If they don't then they will have the option to adopt them. Talk to a foster care/adoption agency regarding this and find out what your options are. Best of luck to you,Samantha

I'm also a single mom. My son was placed with me at 16 days -- there really aren't that many milestones to miss in the first 16 days! I used a private agency in my area for the adoption. I am now starting the process for a second child. I don't feel the same need to have a newborn and experience everything this time, so in addition to another agency adoption I'm looking into Ethiopia and a foster/adopt program. Today I'm leaning towards Ethiopia, but if you ask me next week I may feel differently.

I completly understand your feelings. I am a 42 year old successful female who has not met mr. right. I have decided to take action myself by adopting as a single parent. Where most view being single a handicap, I feel that is no longer true. There are single people who can provide for a child just as well as a married couple. Through my adoption agency and research about adoption over the last year, I have seen a growing amount of single parent adoptions as well as same sex adoptions. I would like to think that people are all "just tryin to get along".

:wings: I completly understand your feelings. I am a 42 year old successful female who has not met mr. right. I have decided to take action myself by adopting as a single parent. Where most view being single a handicap, I feel that is no longer true. There are single people who can provide for a child just as well as a married couple. Through my adoption agency and research about adoption over the last year, I have seen a growing amount of single parent adoptions as well as same sex adoptions. I would like to think that people are all just tryin to get along.

I am a single woman, who is in the process of adopting from Colombia. Some countries have restrictions on single parent adopting so please read and look around. Best of all, once you made the decesion to adopt the paperwork is not over all just time consuming. But , well worth it.

I am also a single foster/adopt mother. I finalized the adoption of my daughter in September. She was placed with me at 5 weeks old. I am also finalizing the adoption of my fs on Dec. 15th. In addition I have had 5 other babies under 3 placed with me to foster that have reunited with family. In my county we have had no problem getting infant placements. In fact there is a shortage of people able to foster infants here so I am called a lot with possible placements. It is a risk but also can be a great way to build a family especially if you are a single person.

I'm a single woman hoping to adopt too. I've finally decided that domestic adoption through the Department of Children's Services is financially the most realistic for me. I'm 38 and ready for a child. I've just started the process with paperwork and attending a mandantory class for prospective foster and adoptive parents. I'll be finishing the 30 hours of the class in March and I'm so excited and terrified at the same time.

:banana: 36, single. Likewise failed to find mr right. thought I had him for a while but c'est la vie. Looking to becoming a single mum. adopting in slovakia. good luck to everyone in the same position!!

Actually it's a falacy to think you can't get infants from foster care. In Massachusetts the average age of a foster to adopt child is 5 and infants are half of the kids that are adopted. In my Mapp training there were 8 sets of or single parents. Of those 4 have children now. 4 held off. One couple got new born twins they picked up at the hospital. The parental rights have been terminated (they are not a year old yet even) and they are now moving towards adoption. Another couple got a new born and a 1 year old. The new born has been with them 6 mos now...the mother doesn't show up at visits. The one year old had parental rights terminated and they have a court date for finalizing adoption next month (he just turned 2). I adopted my son who is now 10 when he was 9 and the other couple also has a 9 year old which they wanted that age as I did. This is in Mass so it's different everywhere but they move quickly here. You just have to be willing to understand that if you take younger ones that's parental rights are not terminated yet they are legal risk but if you can do that it's very quick. MAPP took 3 months and the couple that has the 1 year old and infant had the one year old 3 days after MAPP ended. We all had placements within 4 months.

I am a single foster/adoptive parent. My son was placed at 3 months & adopted at 2 1/2. He is a minority so he received Medicaid, a monthly stipend & college tuition thru Phd. I live in Houston, TX & foster thru CPS but transferring my license to DePelchan. Best of luck!!! You can do it!!!!

Hi, I am 37 and single, and I have mulled over international adoption the past year. A neighbor, also single, just adopted a newborn this week, and she went through an attorney. I am thinking of trying this route instead as I'd prefer a newborn also. haven't signed any paperwork yet, but will do so within the next several weeks.