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Originally Posted By barki

I think we are bound by how many bedrooms we have available. Since we are adopting thru the state foster agency we have to comply with foster regulations for having a child placed in our home. The children are placed as foster children until the paper work is transferred to the other dept. and they are then an "adoptive" placement until finalization. The foster dept. has guidelines about how many children may be in a room, age and gender spread of the children in the same room, etc. With only two bedrooms available for child occupation I don't think we COULD adopt 6 children...LOL!

There can be special variances for special circumstances, but one has to have the branch manager write a special dispensation to do that and it isn't a COMMON thing, although they do it on occaision. For example, no child over the age of two may sleep in the foster parents' bedroom. However, in order to accomodate another waiting foster child whom they couldn't place elsewhere, they allowed the 2 yo to stay a few months more in a crib in parents' bedroom so that older child would have their own bedroom.

In order to REALLY know what Illinois has on the books you should look it up in their info packet or ask your caseworker. (It was IL, right?? not Indiana? if it was IN, just replace IL with IN in the sentence. LOL)