Hi,I just posted a long reply to you,but it didn't go through. I will give you a short response and tell you more later how it works.
Yes you can tell them the age race and sex. We are wanting a cauc.,or his,or asian, girl 0-3. They will ask you this.
Yes the child has been through some kind of hardship or they wouldn't have taken them in the first case. They will tell you all they know that the child has been through.
You have to have a homestudy done,and take 9 classes of foster pride(teachs you what the children have went through and how to handle it,it is taught by someone who knows,our teachers had foster many children and apdopt they were great) that are 3 hours each. You can't miss a class and your hubby must go too. Are's were every monday 6pm-9pm. You have to have physicals you pay for,tb test,ect.
You get liscensed(if you are in the clear)about a month after classes.
So we expect to get liscened by end of this month (October). We started talking to them in June. But classes are only offered so often.
I will tell you more later. There are more older children than younger. We signed up as adopt only. You can choose to foster,foster to adopt,or adopt only.
There goal is to return the children back to the parents. Only if the parents make an effort. The parents rights cant be terminated unless they have had them in custody for around 9 months(i think it is 9 or 6months). So in other words you won't get a baby younger than this unless something really bad has happen like the parent was a murderer and rights were terminated right away.
They will try to convince you to adopt older children.
Hope this helps for now and I can tell you the good and the ugly later
