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Originally Posted by crzydayz
Hi Jill, your journey sounds like it has been wonderful so far, I can not wait. We have 2 pride classes left, but have really not had any contact so far with anyone from our agency. We are also using Catholic Charities and we are very interested in adopting, I would love to hear more on how you did this. So a couple of questions, I think you said you became foster parents but paid for your home study, then you could also just adopt? When you adopted the first to children, how did you go about that compared to fostering out of the welfare system. I have a ton of questions, but will start at that.  |
Hi........Since we knew we wanted a family and adoption was the only route for us to go, we just pursued regular infant adoption first. We did a few respite fosters in between adopting our first 2 kids. Back in the fall, I mentioned to our SW'er that I would like to have one more (another son
) but at that time we could not afford adoption fees again. (We kept tying up our money in fees and finally needed it back from our taxes to do some things around our house) Then in December, we got the call for Baby C thru foster care. We were picked because A) we wanted a boy B) we were one of a few families willing to fost/adopt AA children within our agency. It seems to be going towards TPR and adoption but I don't want to get too excited yet. Anyway, I don't know if this helps but let me know if you have any other questions.