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Originally Posted By Vicki

Hello, I have just started looking into foster adoption. I really do not know anyone who has done this, and just wanted to know your general experiences. How is the match paired up? Do you choose gender, age, etc? I am a single professional woman, do they prefer married couples? Any help is appreciated.

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Originally Posted By Amy

We're still going through the process but this is what I understand:

1. you tell them what you're willing to accept, i.e. age, gender, development, etc. You and the child both need to be comfortable with each other. When a child who meets your criteria is found that child's social worker will contact your social worker and review each other's files. If everything seems ok then your caseworker will present the child's file to you and if the child is older, the child will be given information about you. If both are interested then a meeting is set up.

They don't prefer married or single - they do look at your support system though.

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Originally Posted By TnT

Me & my husband are registered for Fost-Adopt in LA county. I can't imagine San Bernardino being too different, but who knows. In our adoption class, we had a lesbian couple and two single working mothers who were all licensed without a problem. You have full reign to choose the type of child(ren) you want. You may go broad (boy or girl, any race, ages 2-6) or you may be very precise (2 year old chinese baby girl). You will probably complete a questionnaire which will help you decide. The licensing process is somewhat long - it took us 9 months to complete our county adoption and state foster care licenses and we tried to be somewhat quick in getting everything done. The worst part of adoption is the waiting afterwards. We've been waiting seven months and aren't even looking for a baby.