Hope For Foster Children

So you think you want to be Foster Parents in order to adopt a child? Consider this!
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Grief and Loss from the Foster Care System
There are many honorable people who feel the call to become Foster Parents and they have assisted many children in need. However, other wonderful people long to be parents but do not feel called to foster children or go through the lengthy process of becoming a State Licensed and Supervised Foster Home. There are many loving people who do NOT want the children that they have developed a strong emotional attachment with, to be potentially torn from their hearts and families.

Adopting Parents are good people, who only want to bring children into their families for a permanent placement through a legal adoption, as they do not want to be forced to grieve an emotional disruption. The Foster Care System is designed as a temporary shelter for children during the time that the biological parents are attempting to reclaim their parental rights through dependency court, and most children are returned to their biological parents or placed with extended family members. This reality has literally broken the hearts of many kind and emotional foster parents who have had the very children that they love and have been providing care, in some cases for years, suddenly removed from their home.

Due to our current the Florida Court system, the children were often returned to a biological family member simply because they are “blood”, although they may be less capable or committed to be a parent. Then for the sake of the children, sometimes these foster parents attempt to overturn this legal ruling to have the children they love returned to them, but without success. After being so bereaved and devastated, many people give up being Foster Parents and make the decision that they only want to adopt.
Our Interstate Adoption program eliminates these concerns as the placements across a State Line are for permanent placement only as there is no interstate fostering.
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Children that you have become attached with may be removed from your home after you have emotionally bonded:
http://adoptflorida.com/information-guide.htm#facts

From the Florida Adoption Information Guide
“foster parents must never assume that a foster child will become eligible for adoption because almost half of our foster children eventually go back to live with their biological families. Most foster parents who become adoptive parents have cared for and relinquished dozens of children before they are matched with a foster child who is available for adoption.”

Myths About Foster to Adopt
Robyn Harrod, LCSW
Is it possible to adopt a child from fostering?
this depends on many factors; including how long the child has been in foster care and where they are in the court process, as all children in foster care are dependents of children’s court. Sometimes a child placed in your home is reunited with their birth parents or birth family. If that is the case plan for the child, and the birth family follows through with what they have to do for reunification, that child will be reunited and returned to their care. It is more than likely that if you choose to adopt through the foster care system you will be able to adopt. It just may not be the first child who is placed in your home.
Our Interstate Adoption Process can help avoid these sad and stressful situations.
Many people are frustrated with the foster care system:
http://www.adoptivefamiliescircle.com/groups/topic/Frustrated1/

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110214103126AAH1rjM

http://www.ripoffreport.com/child-protective-services/florida-department-o/florida-department-of-children-adcwc.htm

http://fost-adopt.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/florida-foster-care-being-sued
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