Originally Posted By
Pam
First off, any child under two is going to be hard to adopt. The best way to adopt such a young child is to do foster care and try for a placement where the child looks like he or she won't be able to come home. There are no guarantees, but a lot of people do adopt their foster children...some adopt many of them. My friends just adopted a sib group, ages 1 and 2, from Iowa and they liked Iowa (they were picked as the family out of 150 homestudies sent in!). We liked New Jersey a lot and Delaware. I've heard good things about Minnesota lately. We liked Kentucky. Ohio can be good. Many people like Oregon. Mixed reviews: North Carolina, California (but you will pay your own travel expenses AND the childs in California, which we could not afford) Illinois, MO and Maine. What I have experienced as bad adoption states (not cooperative, don't call back, etc. plus what I've read here): Indiana, Wisconsin (I live here, yuk...it's awful), New Mexico, and most of the smaller, poorer, underfunded states just don't have enough money to do much advocating or helping their children or people who want to adopt them. I've called several. If you want to adopt a very young child it is best to be open to all races, but, even with that, unless you foster, you may not get a placement. A few here have...it happens. It isn't easy though. Good luck
