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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

  1. Introduction
  2. Getting started
  3. Who can adopt?
  4. How to pay for adoption
  5. Finding an agency to do a home study
  6. Orientation meetings
  7. The application
  8. What does a home study involve?
  9. Pre-adoption classes
  10. Foster parenting
  11. Viewing photolistings
  12. Definitions of “disorders” and other terminology
  13. Sexual abuse
  14. Adopting from other states
  15. Waiting, waiting, and waiting some more
  16. What can you do while you’re waiting?
  17. Once you have been “matched”
  18. Preparing your home for your new child
  19. Scrapbooks and Lifebooks
  20. Discipline
  21. Subsidies
  22. Transitioning a child into your home
  23. Waiting period before finalization
  24. Staying home
  25. Follow up visits
  26. Reading with your child
  27. Your child and school
  28. Filing a petition to adopt
  29. Finalization
  30. Celebrations and anniversaries
  31. Are they your real kids?
  32. Post adoption resources and services
  33. Post Adoption Depression
  34. False Allegations
  35. Disruption and Dissolution
  36. Adoption attorneys
  37. Wisdom from other parents
  38. Other sources for information
  39. State resources
  40. Sources and Resources
  41. Checklist of Behaviors and Disorders
  42. Child Information Sheet
  43. Sample Foster/Adoption Application
  44. ICPC Form
  45. Training Hours/Classes Required by Each State

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