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Hello,

My husband and I have been considering foster/adoption for around 7 years now and we are wondering if now is the time. We have two kids who will be 5 in the next few weeks. One is our bio son and one is our daughter from Liberia. My concern is that we had to disrupt the adoption of the 8 year old boy we adopted from Liberia. He came home in August of 05, two months later we found out about significant sexual abuse in his past, in Nov of 05 he tried to molest a young girl, and in Feb of 06 we found out he had sexually abused at least 5 young boys in his orphanage and was planning to do this to our kids. So, it has been 3 months since our disruption and he is being adopted by a therapeutic foster care family. Our social worker and his therapist did not support him staying in our family because of the safety of our two little ones, so we didn't even have much of a choice.

We have already been approved by two agencies to adopt internationally or domestically through them in the next year. We plan on one or two kids younger than ours. So, would the state approve us? Would we have to wait a certain time period to start training classes? We live in an area where there aren't enough foster parents and we have wanted to do this for so long.

Also, is there a regulation about how many children per bedroom? We have a 4 bedroom house so I'm sure we would be fine, I just didn't know if they can share.

Thank you,

Melissa in Oregon