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Has anyone used parentprofiles.com? It sounds like a great idea, but I'd love to hear from folks who've actually posted their profiles. Did you really get responses? How much work was it to go the route of private adoption? How much cost was involved? Are the bmothers who contacted you generally serious (even if they ended up not choosing you?) Are there bmothers in GA who use this service? Or do you have to count on an out-of-state adoption? Any/all information is welcome! Thanks!
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We started out on the road to adoption almost 2 years ago. We spent our first 7 months with a private agency and then switched our homestudy to our county DFCS office. Immediately we were identified for a sibling group. Didn't work out, but we were offered a foster to adopt placement which we finalized just this a.m.!!! Unless you are going through a private adoption of a newborn, DFCS are the people who removed the child from the bparent's home, so dealing with them you basically have "first dibs". I know in our county there are a lot of meth problems. Many children are removed and the bparents are unable to complete their plan. Termination is filed and then the child(ren) is placed for adoption. Unfortunately this results in a good number of children being available. Each county should be able to give you a statistic for terminations if you should ever decide to consider foster to adopt instead of just waiting for a child to adopt.
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You must be so thrilled that your adoption is complete today! All my best wishes to you and your family! I am SO scared to do foster-to-adopt because I think if I had to give up a baby I'd been caring for I'd just die. May I ask you: how were you able to emotionally deal with this possibility? What kind of statistics were you given in your county? We live in Dekalb. And you mentioned meth problems. Does DFCS make sure you're aware of potential problems? Will they tell you honestly if the child was born with illicit drugs in his system? Are you aware of infants who come through the system with a clean bill of health? Or is this unlikely? Thanks for chatting with me, and if you want to contact me by my email privately, that's fine too!