[Prettyboicris]

I see alot of people saying that they have 6 children in their home and one of the instructor for my MAPP classes has 12 children all by Foster Adoption. Some have moved into their own place but she has claimed 12 children as her own. This amazes me because she is a single mother to these children. Granted she only takes teens but still this sort of thing I find amazing.
I dont know if my wife and I could do it.

So I was wondering How many guys do you have (if you are at your desired number)/ Want (If you want more children)?
How did you decide on this number?
was it determined prior to the Foster/adoption (or conception for the Bmoms and Bdads on here) OR did you just go with the flow?

[fostapeepz]

We have 3 kids right now, which was what we originally set out to have. We adopted our son at birth, and he was 9 when we started fostering. We were signed up to take 2 kids. We were first placed with a teen, that we assumed would be heading home soon. She ended up being with us for over a year. We ended up increasing our license up to 3 when our twins came. We were an adoptive placement for them - so that's how we justified the increase. They decided to pull the twins little brother and place him with us - so once again our license was increased. But it was only for a week, as our teen was set to go home. 4 was challenging - but mainly because the little one was just a lot of work. He was sent home, and we are back to just our adopted son (now 10) and our twin girls (5yo). 3 is a nice number and we don't feel as exhausted - but if either of our previous fosters were to need a home again, we would be happy to have them.

[Withay]

Right now I have 1 little one I am adopting and 1 that I am fostering (wish I could adopt this one too).

I started fostering with no intention of ever adopting, however my heart didn't know that. I don't know if there will be more who become my forever child(ren) or not. It depends on what God tells me about any one child.

[fredalina]

We have no children, and i would love to have about 4 kids when all is said and done, but ideally they would come in groups of 1 or 2.

[Prettyboicris]

I guess I should answer my own question. My wife and I currently dont have any children in our home (unless you include our 3 fur kids, two cats and a dog). In one sense we want whatever amount of children we are blessed with. My wife says that she could deal with up to 6 children her preference being 3 boys and 3 girls. The minimum she would want is two,1 boy and 1 girl but open to 2 boys or 2 girls. My personal preference would be minimum 2 children either 1 boy and 1 girl or 2 boys. If we end up with 2 girl I would be fine but my wife is already a "Diva" and our cats and our dog are female. So for me I would prefer at least SOME male energy. In terms of the maximum right now the max would be 2 but if we got a bigger place I would be fine with as a many as we can safely and comfortably fit in our home. I think 4 would be nice number but if my wife and I could manage 6 then so be it. I love kids so we would find a way. When it comes to the max we will go with the flow and stop when we feel right.

[Biblemom]

I have always wanted four children. Even if we are able to adopt our current fc I am still considering to have/foster/adopt one more. Just don't feel 'done' yet. When my children are college age we would like to start fostering teens so am sure the number of 'our' children will continue to increase into old age!

[millie58]

I currently have 4 although I started with 2. I could probably have one more but the 4 I have now (all adopted from foster care) aren't healed yet. I'd probably wait a year or two before I took another one.

[shycar]

When we started we decided to just foster two children until we could adopt. We were lisenced for 4, but that did not mean we would take four. My dh gave me a speech on how we can do one and maybe two if it sounds good, I agreed we had no kids. LOL the first call was a sibling of 3. DH was so excited and said yes we can do this honey. So I said yes with fear of what I was getting into. They had tons of issues, but Im so happy we said yes. From then on we always had more then two kids in our home. We adopted our ds and dd and starting the process on our fs. We want to adopt one more-hopefully a girl that way we would have 2 boys and 2girls.

[evillemomndad]

I want to have 4-6, but our van will only hold 5, so that's pretty much my limit unless we want to get a larger vehicle.

[o2b30again]

We currently have 8 children. 5 will be staying permanently and the other 3 have a really strong case for staying but their case hasn't officially been changed yet.

We always wanted a large family, around 4 or more. We just didn't want to do it the old fashioned way. We felt and still feel that there are plenty of children out there that need a home. If we are blessed with more then we will defiantly find the room. We will continue to keep our license and just see what happens. Both sets of birthparents are REALLY young so you just never know what the future will bring. I never thought that we would end up with 6 new kids within 6 months. It does take some adjusting...I just gave my daycare parents notice that I will be quitting as of May1. We have 3 with FASD and 2 that are RAD. Our hands are full. My husbands job requires frequent traveling so I am basically a single parent most of the time.

We were really open with special needs, gender and race. We wanted a sib group under the age of 10. Boy we never expected 4,3 and 2! Then 11m, 3 and 7 year old! Statistically we should have 2 or 3 boys around 8-10 years old and AA. I think for us we were truly blessed with our children. They just started life somewhere else.

We drive a Yukon and a 15 passenger van so transport isn't a problem. We even have 2 children not sharing rooms at the moment and an unfinished basement. I say the more the merrier. Bring on the children!

[stilldeciding]

We have 2 bio boys, aged 12 and 10 and are waiting on a match through adoption of 1-2 kids max as well as we still are considering 1 more bio child. We are hoping to adopt a girl this time as DH jokes that he can't make girls! If we can't find a match soon, then we may go on for another bio child and wait on adopting and possibly go through Guatemala when and if they re-open. So for us, 3 is our number, but 4 wouldn't be out of the realm for us. We have a 4 bedroom home, but have 2 twin beds, a set of bunk beds, a full sized loft bed which equals the sleeping space for 6 kids not including our master for DH and I. So our home could comfortable sleep 6 or 7 kids. The rooms are nice sized too. But 4 is still our max...I HOPE! LOL

[Singlemom619]

I'd like to have 3-4 at a time... And as one moves out to go to college I could take more placements. I feel that more than this would mean they wouldn't get as much attention.

I am a single woman. If I ever get married I'd like to have biological children and if I had 3-4 foster/adopted kids at that time then I'd be willing to go to 4-5 kids to include the bio kids...

It's just what I feel that I have the space and energy for. I also drive an SUV that seats 8 and so that means I could still have an extra spot or 2 or 3 - for friends, the dog, ect.

[jazzysmom]

We have 3 bio who are grown, 5 adopted and are looking for a sibling group of 3 or a special medical needs child. I love a big family!

[Joei_in_NJ]

Although we are still awaiting our Licensing - I would like a max of 4- We already have our biological daughter who is 8 and would love to def have 1 more girl she says she is really lonely- the rest we are open

[mommytoEli]

5- 4 adopted, 1 nearly adopted. i want 6. i will stop at 6. but if the phone calls and someone has an unexpected sibling.....i guess it will be more.