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Originally Posted by seabird
Thank you C.A. So a legal risk placement is only for babies? Do they do this for toddlers? We are hoping to adopt one day a girl 3-5 years of age.
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Not quite - a child is legal risk until the birth parents rights have been terminated. If a child goes into foster care at any age - baby, toddler or older child - they will likely be legal risk for a couple of years (at least).
Children who go into care as babies - and then become legally available for adoption are often adopted by their foster parents. As in my situation, by the time my son became legally available - we had been raising him for more than a year. We were all attached and could not imaging letting him go to another family.
But that doesn't mean that you won't get a child 3-5. There are many reasons that a foster family may decide not to adopt. Those children then are available for families who have applied for straight adoption.