Online Guide to Adopting from Foster Care
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Comprehensive and clear language guide through the process, procedures, and issues involved in adopting a child from the US foster care system.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Getting started
- Who can adopt?
- How to pay for adoption
- Finding an agency to do a home study
- Orientation meetings
- The application
- What does a home study involve?
- Pre-adoption classes
- Foster parenting
- Viewing photolistings
- Definitions of “disorders” and other terminology
- Sexual abuse
- Adopting from other states
- Waiting, waiting, and waiting some more
- What can you do while you’re waiting?
- Once you have been “matched”
- Preparing your home for your new child
- Scrapbooks and Lifebooks
- Discipline
- Subsidies
- Transitioning a child into your home
- Waiting period before finalization
- Staying home
- Follow up visits
- Reading with your child
- Your child and school
- Filing a petition to adopt
- Finalization
- Celebrations and anniversaries
- Are they your real kids?
- Post adoption resources and services
- Post Adoption Depression
- False Allegations
- Disruption and Dissolution
- Adoption attorneys
- Wisdom from other parents
- Other sources for information
- State resources
- Sources and Resources
- Checklist of Behaviors and Disorders
- Child Information Sheet
- Sample Foster/Adoption Application
- ICPC Form
- Training Hours/Classes Required by Each State
© Adoption.com Guide to Foster Adoption, published by Adoption Media, LLC
Credits: Kelly L. Killian
