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My husband and I are currently in the process of hopefully finalizing our adoption approval with SD county by late summer/early fall.
During our PRIDE classes we were informed of concurrent placements for newborns/infants and were told that more often than not, the foster family who is currently caring for a baby who later becomes legally free to adopt are given first priority to adopt him/her.
Although the social workers stated that when they place a concurrent placement with parents who are looking to adopt, they usually feel pretty confident that reunification will not be successful and TPR will be issued. However, there are no guarantees and there is always a higher risk with these types of placements.
I'd like to hear from foster parents who have had concurrent placements of newborns/infants. How did it work out? How many were reunified? Did you seek adoption once the child became legally free? Would you recommend it based on your experience (either with placements or knowledge of the process)?
Any info or advice is appreciated! As of now, we are still uneasy about it.
Thanks. :thanks:
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You might want to put this question to one of the boards that gets more traffic like "foster parent support". But from what I understand it takes time to contact all the relatives involved in a case on both the maternal and paternal side. There is always a good chance you could end up adopting the baby as the first and only foster parent. But there is probably an even better chance for reunification with the parents or going to family (cousins, aunts, uncles and especially grandparents).
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Your chances are better if you take a placement from a bio that has already lost children to TPR AND that child did not go to a relative. Sadly your chances are also higher if the parent is a long time drug user or a user of harder drugs such as cocaine, etc. That's just statistically though. There is always some risk. My nephew was concurrent and he went to adoption. Several of my friends also have concurrent that went to adoption no problem. All in CA.
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We are a concurrent home and have adopted one little guy that was placed with us at 3 weeks of age. We also currently have a 9 month old sweet girl and her 23 month old brother with us - they will likely be placed with a relative in the next few months.
Hi SofieB, Sorry I just saw that you had replied to my post. We finalized the adoption with our little guy when he was 16 months old. According to our adoption worker, that was "lightening speed". It went pretty smoothly, reunification services were terminated at the 6 month in care mark, then parental rights terminated at 12 months. It was a complicated case and I credit our social workers for completing the tons of paperwork in such a timely manner. The sibling set, we were told, were likely to be available for adoption without any snags. Until just recently bio dad hadn't wanted any involvement at all. Now he's in the picture and saying he wants to raise the kids himself. Although his resources are limited he seems to be trying hard to be involved. We are doing our best to support him in his efforts, he is a nice guy and they are delightful kids.
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