Foster Care / Adoption

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Comment by Captain Bret on March 10, 2012 at 8:57pm

Hi, Bonnie.  We have 8 adopted children.  The Homeschool Channel recently featured a video titled "A Day at Green Acres Farm with Captain Bret."  You may want to watch; it features our children, and my wife has a bit to say about our adoptions.  Feel free to call us if we can help.  Our software features a lot of good information as well, at www.E6-4.com.

Comment by Bonnie Comer on March 10, 2012 at 6:10pm

There does not seem to be any new updates on this group but my husband and I have just submitted our foster care paperwork in NM and are ready and willing to follow God's calling!!!

Comment by Sarah Brown on September 19, 2011 at 10:07pm

Julia, we are in Florida and are currently considered "relative caregivers". We have had my husband's niece in our home for about 15 months (since she was 9 months old). It's strange to say niece...to us she's our daughter and we're her mommy and daddy. Anyhow, her natural parents' (my husband's brother and his girlfriend) rights have been terminated and we are waiting for the state to finalize all of the legal mumbo jumbo. I have a close friend who has a foster daughter (in home 17 months). She is having a hard time getting the states (AL & FL) to communicate effectively. She is trying to legally adopt her daughter but the states each have their own "rules" and they simply don't mesh well. I would recommend thoroughly researching the laws in both states. Document EVERYTHING you're told and keep every piece of paper you're given. Also, get in touch with the children's Guardian Ad Litem. They can be a powerful force in making sure the children's well being and best interest is kept. In my case and my friends, we haven't had to pay out of pocket for anything except some basic day to day needs that the monthly assistance didn't quite cover (clothes, diapers, etc). Finally, PRAY! The LORD knows your heart and He knows the needs of the those precious children! Through the trials you may face going through this journey, rest in knowing the children belong to HIM before they belong to any of us (either biologically or through adoption) He will see that their needs to are tended to in accordance with HIS will...not ours. And thank goodness! What a huge amount of pressure! We could never live up to apart from Him! God bless you and your family as you move to change the lives of these sweet children!

Comment by CRAIG & BARBARA SHEFFER on September 17, 2011 at 5:03pm

Julia, we adopted my half-sister's youngest daughter.  The county's foster care system paid all the cost of the adoption.  Does the county that the son is with offer any such compensation?

 

Comment by Bev Hobbs on September 16, 2011 at 5:51pm

My husband and I were foster parents and adopted our daughter thru  foster care. We are looking for other adoptive families that homeschool in the Indpls. area as well a homeschool preschool group.

Thanks so much,

Bev

Comment by Julia on September 4, 2011 at 4:41pm

We have come into the foster/adoption world b/c of a niece who is unable to care for her children.  We are in TX and she lives in AZ.  We are trying to adopt her infant son, who is in foster care, and an unborn baby due soon.   We really need some legal advice, probably from an AZ source.  We don't have a lot of money for attorney fees.  Any suggestions?

Comment by Alesia McDaniels on May 4, 2010 at 3:28pm

I have to say I am very happy to see so many suggesting adoption through the foster care system. Those children are just as deserving. Though there may be challenges that go along with it due to their environment that led to foster care, it is worth it and those children benefit so much from a stable home and loving environment. God bless you all for what you do and following God's lead.

Comment by Holly Myers on May 4, 2010 at 2:29pm

Thank you for the ideas...I'm sure it will happen in God's time.

Comment by trudy otwell on May 4, 2010 at 8:40am

Holly, consider going through foster care for adoption. In Florida, you have to go through the same classes foster parents go through, but it's no cost. The only cost for adoption is the few hundred dollars for the attorney fees. Check in your area and with your local DCF (department of children and family) to see how it works there. Half of the people in our class were in for the sole purpose of adopting. Foster care loses most of it's families because they adopt so many children that they can no longer foster.

Comment by Beth on May 4, 2010 at 8:14am

yes, this is a struggle and prohibitive for many families. There is (or at least used to be) a tax credit where you could take it off your taxes for the next 5 years or so. I don't know how expensive it is with the fostering-to-adopt programs mentioned. When we adopted, we were living in the country overseas, although it was still expensive to us, it was not nearly what you're looking at otherwise. Some families do fundraisers and invite support to help, it would be a good thing for churches to take on as a project...might check with Focus on the Family and see if they have helpful suggestions in this area

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