Wow, and I thought California was difficult! I called our county and they said, "call this number". Called that number, disconnected. Tried numbers on the internet (yellow pages for my area), disconnected. Called LA county, they said, "You need to call Sacramento, here's the number - disconnected. I called Children's Bureau. If you are currently with an agency (we are going international), you cannot sign up with them to even get paperwork started. We cannot even take any classes - even if we paid for them! She said they wouldn't be of any value. If I already have adopted children, how can they be of no value? No one at the county or state level can even answer the question of how to get started. They just send brochures that have no real valuable info. It's no wonder children stay in foster care! No one can find out how to adopt them! When I did ask about adopting, they told me, "our goal is to reunite them with their birth family" No incentive there to try to build a family. Just more heartache. And they wonder why we are going international....
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