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Originally Posted by journeytolily
Sharon did a great job of explaining the hurdles. We adopted twice internationally, but my DH had only one DUI, with a couple other minor arrests, years ago. It was VERY difficult, BOTH times. I am thinking that with 7 DUI's, it just won't happen.
My suggestion is that they look into domestic adoption. He would still have to prove himself, but to less entities. Our most recent adoption was just this past November, of a newborn. It was a cake-walk, compared to what we went thru for IA!
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I agree. I knew Sharon would reply in great detail, I will probably just cut and paste her answer and send it to this woman. I also think she should try domestic. She is already fostering. I know what a hard time she will have as I lived it - I had a college arrest for a silly demonstration I was involved in and it almost derailed my entire adoption. In fact it would have had I not had two different versions of the homestudy so the country never knew about the arrest. One stupid move 20 years ago and if not for the empathy of my sw, I would not have my daughter - ahh but that's another thread.
Thanks to the responders.