How Much Do You Know About Foster Adoption? Quizzes

1. TRUE or FALSE: If you want to adopt a child from foster care, you are required to foster them first - and they may go back to their birth family.

True. All foster adoptions are uncertain.

False. About 1/4 of the children in the foster care system are legally free for adoption.

2. The fees involved with foster adoption are usually around:

$0 - $5,000

$5,001-$15,000

$15,001-$30,000

$30,000+

3. TRUE or FALSE: Only older children and teens are available for adoption from the foster care system.

True. Babies and toddlers can only be fostered with the possibility of adoption.

False. Children of all ages can be adopted through foster care.

4. In foster adoption, which the following scenarios can be considered "special needs adoption"?

Children over the age of 3.

Siblings wanting to be adopted together.

Children from ethnic or racial minority groups.

All of the above.

5. TRUE or FALSE: You have to be married to adopt from foster care.

True. Children being adopted from foster care need a two-parent home.

False. Single parents make great parents too!

6. Which of the following is the primary reason that children are placed in foster care?

They have exhibited extreme behaviors that their parents couldn't handle.

They are runaways.

They were experiencing neglect and/or abuse in the home.

All of the above.

7. Which of the following is true of teens in foster care?

They're too old to be adopted. They'll turn 18 and move out on their own soon anyway.

They need the love and stability that a family can provide them with.

They have too many troubling behaviors to be able to be successfully integrated into a family.

Are better off in the structured setting of a group home, rather than a foster or adoptive home.