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To foster to adopt. We got our license and have had it for two weeks now with no call for placement. I found some children on our states website that just sort of tugged at my heart. I had actually noticed them when we were considering fostering. Not actually knowing the process, we didn't realize that they were legally free to be adopted. We just thought that if they were in foster care, they could come and live with us once they were licensed and we could enventualy adopt them. Anyway, we went to an adoption information meeting the other night and found out the real scoop on what the process was. I also found out more info on the children in question. The worker called me yesterday and said that there was a selection staffing for those children today and that she was going to try to submit our homestudy. I rushed home and made a quick photo album of our family and sent it with my husband this morning to take to work with him so she could pick it up on her way to the staffing. She said that it was down to us and two other families, both from out of state and that we have a pretty good shot. Right before the meeting, she called and said that they were a little hesitant about accepting our homestudy because I take antidepressants for mild depression and my husband once suffered from depression after being laid off 4 years ago before we were even married. I don't know if their problem is just with these particular girls or if we are going to run into this problem all of the time. If they start banning people who take antidepressants they are going to find themselves severely lacking in adoptive parents. I know that the imporatant thing is that these children get adopted but it still bugs me. We haven't gotten an answer yet but I am not getting my hopes up too high. Please keep us in your prayers.
Any thoughts on this situation?:hissy:
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Offer to go to a therapist for an evaluation. Dh takes anti-anxiety meds. In his history he has alcohol rehab (twice) and a "suicide attempt". that happened when he was drinking and on anti-anxiety meds, over 10 years before we got our homestudy. He went to a therapist our case worker recommended and they spoke for an hour. She wrote up a paperr saying he was of sound mind, did not present a risk at all, that the problems were all in the past and he had dealt well with them.
It must of worked. We have just gotten our third foster-to-adopt placement. See my signature?
Hang in there.
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They chose an out of state couple with no history of depression to adopt the girls. I guess it just wasn't God's plan for us to have them. We will keep trying. We just haven't gotten a placement yet and are anxious. We will probably go the foster to adopt route like we originally intended.