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My husband and I have just started looking into adoption in the last few months and on a photolisting we fell in love with a set of twins who are pre-teen. They are whats pushing us to move more quickly now and all the sudden i ran across a site that says sometimes you have to be at least 20 years older then the child your adopting and that you have to have married at least 2 years...Does anyone know if this is the case in colorado? please help if you have been through and adoption in colorado did you have these requirements?thanks
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I've adopted through Colorado. Special Needs, in fact.
You do have to be married a minimum of 2 years before you can adopt.
And yes, sometimes you do need to be at least 20 years older than the child. This isn't always the case as there are some exceptions.
And the minimum age to adopt is 21 years of age.
If you would like an agency recommendation, let me know and I can pm one to you.
Crick
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You may be able to access the State Child services site and see and get more facts about the requirements.... I will tell you however that in nearly all adoption cases (not all I am sure there is sometimes an exception) The marriage needs to be at least 2 years....and especially with Special Needs children the states almost always will insist on it....
As for the age spread I believe there may be some standards and I think that in general most caseworkers are not going to place if the children are too close in age to the parents....The implications and issues are huge and socially difficult....
Do not give up hope everything happens for a reason. I would caution you to try NOT to fall in love with children you find listed on the internet. In most cases these children have far more issues then will be disclosed on a public website--due to confidential reasons NOT everything will be written in the listing... Often families want to adopt children from the web sites and do not understand why they hear nothing about these children....in many cases the kids caseworker has looked at the Honestudy and found that there are things about the child that you have infromed you will not or can not deal with....In these cases you may or may not hear back...
This is a long hard road and one that requires a number of hoops to jump--don't get too wrapped up in 'The Child' at this point....try to work past the whole proccess and try real hard not to fall in love until someone says--You are matched and the transistion is ready to start....It will simply cause you to go crazy if you have to fall in love 12 times before a child is placed....
Best of luck and keep on moving forward....It is a long road.