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We were told that the term "foster to adopt" is a little misleading because it is all foster. The "to adopt" means that if one happens to come available you would want to adopt, but that doesn't mean that you have to adopt. They try to give foster to adopt families kids they think will go to adoption, but I am here to tell you that you will probably not adopt the first kid they put in your home unless you are really really lucky. They were 95% positive we were going to be able to adopt our first placement and they went back in 6 weeks! Now we have a little boy we got as a respit care situation, and now it looks like he may come up for adoption!! It's so crazy. I have a friend who is foster to adopt and she has taken in 5 kids at a time for 5 years and hasn't been able to adopt one of them! All of hers have gone back to the parents or to family. She keeps try though because she knows that these kids need us to try so badly.
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