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We had two infants placed thru foster/adopt thru a private agencies where the TPRs were in process in one case and in the other had already happened. In that state as well as in Los Angeles county infants who come into foster adopt are usually adopted by the family. They are most often chidlren who are born to mother who have two or more children in the system and the family memebers or foster family can't handle another child. Most of the people I know who adopted thru this county (or thru a private agency contracted by the county) had infants and toddlres placed. Most were drug impacted (as was one of ours) but none had serious long term issues. I doesn't hurt to check it out. In some places the policy with young childern is ALWAYS reunification but that is not always the case so you might want to just go to an informational meeting a see what the vibe is. At the agency we worked with they were clearly placing these kids for adoption and fostercare was only temporary but othr agencies really believe that foster parents have to "pay dues" and foster several chidlren before they are placed with a child that is likely to be adopted. Again in this county 90% of the kids placed in foster/adopt are adopted and most are under 3 year old.
lisa
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