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Originally Posted by joskimo
No offense to foster care, but do you deem that as a better situation then being placed with a loving family prepared to make a lifelong committment to a child? All things are not equal. We were selected by H's bmom, would she have selected an AA family instead? Perhaps, but with the agency we used, there were no AA families. None.
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Jos, often there are waiting lists of aa adoptive families willing to accept foster-adopt placements. That may not be true in the area where you live, but it's not uncommon. So turning a child over to foster care does not mean that he/she will not get a permanent home or that it won't happen quickly. I don't think foster care is, on the whole, better than a permanent placment, but I do think there are institutional reasons why there are so few aa families, hispanic families, etc. available for pbmoms to choose from among most traditional agencies.
http://www.nysccc.org/T-Rarts/Barriers.html
Tracy, there have also been studies done on this subject...I'll include one article; you're welcome to email the author for her resources. I'm sorry that some of you are hurt by this idea, tho. It's not new.
http://www.chswpirc.org/scripts/Nort...?ArticleID=354