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I have enjoyed our decision to adopt from the foster care system. One bit of advice I would give is to find a worker who really advocates for you as well as the child. Our first worker took almost 18 months to finish our homestudy. We were a basic family with no issues, but due to her caseload, she could never get to it. I called the branch manager and had our worker removed and we were given our current worker. We love working with her and find her to be on our side.
In Oregon you submit a homestudy, the child's worker chooses 3 families to take to committee. Then a committee of adoption professionals picks the family. We were asked to go to committee for a 15 mo old AA boy. He is beautiful. We will find out in 2 weeks if we are his family. It's gut wrenching, but so was trying to get pregnant.
Really think about the foster care system. There are some wonderful kids who are not broken in the system. As a teacher, I see these kids daily and they are wonderful.
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