trying to adopt a foster child in new york foster care system

Adopting from the foster care systems needs to revamped. The family that wants to adopt the freed child has no rights. The current foster parent with whom the children are living with has all the rights and control over the children. Most children that are freed for adoption are placed in pre -adopted homes ( the agency doesn't give them a time limit) and the foster parents keeps the children for years, collecting the checks , but don't want to adopt the children. Then when the children are placed on their state photolisting and a family comes forward to adopt the children are matched with them and when its time for placement , the foster parent is scared to lose the income from the check, decides that they want to adopt the children last minute, after the children have been matching and bonding with the new family. Then filing for a fair hearing to keep the children and check in their homes. Then the pre adopted family have to wait until the judges decides whether to keep the children in that home where the used them for their check or to place them with the new family so they could finally have a forever . This is currently going on in new york with ms Zihov and ms Irrizarry in the Bronx. The mayor and the governor need to make some new laws to protect their children in the ACS foster care system. Is anybody else going through being matched with a child /children then , whoever they are staying with changed their minds last minute and now you have to start your search all over again? view less