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For us, we very much wanted to adopt, and not have foster children that would for sure have to leave our home- so we did legal risk for foster, but also asked our FAD worker to submit us for striaght adoption cases that matched us.
But our very first foster placement was legal risk, and we instantly fell in love. (TPR trial is coming up soon, and we are hopeful that we can adopt him.) So we asked our FAD to close us for additional placements.
If you truly want to adopt, and to protect your heart, but decide to do legal risk, then make sure you ask lots of questions when placement calls you. Ask to speak to the child's case worker. Try to find out what has been done to try to place the child with a relative.
But nothing is for sure- our FS had "no suitable relatives" and was "legal risk" but then the bio-dad comes out of the woodwork 6 months later and requests a homestudy!!!!!!
In the future, we will probably just do striaght adoption, or ask for legal risk infants only.
I think that one reason we did legal risk/foster-to-adopt, was because we wanted very young children who were healthy... and there are more children in the foster system that in the straight adoption system, so we felt we needed to cast the net wide. Does that make sense? lol. '
By the way, our second foster/legal-risk placement was a very healthy infant that we picked up from the hospital, TPR this month!!!!!
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