[rharrison]

My wife and I are a Caucasian/Filipino couple here in the USA and we would like to provide a fosterhome or adopt a Caucasian/Filipino infant. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions for where to start?

Thank you!
Rharrison

[Sam-N-Tony]

If you would like to become a foster home, you would check into your local licensing agency. If your from a state that has both state and private, you will need to decide which is best for you.

Just google _(your state)_ foster licensing agency and you should come up with some hit.

Good luck.

[Kat-L]

Originally Posted by rharrison

My wife and I are a Caucasian/Filipino couple here in the USA and we would like to provide a fosterhome or adopt a Caucasian/Filipino infant. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions for where to start?

Thank you!
Rharrison

If you want to be a foster/adopt home, you have to contact your local county to be licensed. However, if you are only looking to adopt a caucasian/filipino infant, you must go the domestic adoption route. Even with a private infant adoption, you have to wait until: A) An expectant mother carrying a filipino/caucasian child decides on adoption, B) This expectant mom happens to call your agency (or sees your advertisement), C) She would have to choose YOU and not another family to adopt her baby, D) Follows through with an adoption plan.

Considering that the majority of infants placed for adoption are caucasian, african american, biracial or hispanic, there aren't going to be many expectant mothers who fit your requirements.

Filipino women DO choose adoption on occasian-however, it's not as common as white, black, hispanic adoptions because Filipino women make up a VERY small part of our population.

As for FOSTER/ADOPT

The majority of children in foster care are african american, hispanic, caucasian or a mixture of those three. There are VERY FEW asian children in foster care. Of the 3478 children waiting for adoption on the adoptuskids website, 12 are asian. That's less than one percent- and none are listed as caucasian/filipino mix. This is typical. If you search through your states foster/adopt listing, you can also see the number of asian children listed in your state. In Maryland, where I live, there are none.

And VERY VERY few asian infants who are filipino/caucasian mix are placed for adoption through foster care. In my county, they wouldn't even consider someone as a foster parent who would only accept a filipino/caucasian mixed child because there are none available. And again, with FOSTER/ADOPT, you would be fostering the child-not adopting. MOST infants (regardless of race) are reunited with their parents or placed with family. I have fostered 5 infants. One is Asian/Hispanic mix (not filipino). And I live in an area where there is a large population of Filipino families. My sister in law is Filipina. However, there are no Filipino children in foster care. Foster parents usually have many many different placements BEFORE they finally are placed with a child they will eventually adopt. If you are open only to filipino/caucasian children, you may never get a call. Your local foster care agency can tell you how many asian children are placed each year. Again, though, unless you live in an area with a HUGE amount of Filipinos/Caucasian mixed families where the kids are being abused and neglected to the point where they are being removed from their homes, the chances of a filipino/caucasian child needing foster care is pretty slim. And the chance of this child being an infant is even slimmer. And this is for the same reason that you have to wait for an infant adoption placement. To foster/adopt a filipino/caucasian infant, there has to be: A) a filipino/caucasian child removed from his or her home due to abuse/neglect. B) no one in the extended family can take custody. C) You happen to be the foster parent called for the placement

For fostering, it's just not likely to happen. In fact, even if you were open to ANY race, the chances of you fostering to adopt an infant is not common. Again, you can have many many different placements of infants (of different races) who are reunited with family BEFORE you finally receive one you can adopt. The reason is that MOST infants end up going to family members rather than staying in foster care.

[Chancey]

I'd say your chances of receiving a Caucasian/Filipino infant in either foster or adopt are slim to none. I agree with PP's that the majority of kiddos in care are Anglo, African American and Hispanic. I have NEVER seen an Asian child in foster or adoptive placements.

[MassachusettsMom]

Ahhh... but you don't know until you ask!

You can contact local adoption agencies who handle domestic infant adoption and ask them. In our area, most of the agencies have free info sessions and can give you stats on their recent placements. Same for adopting through the foster care system -- you might have better luck working with an agency that contracts with DSS to place children, rather than working directly with DSS.

We were told there were rarely Asian children and rarely infants available for adoption in our area through the foster care system. Then one of our first calls was for a legal-risk Asian infant. (Which we did not take for a variety of reasons unrelated to race or age.) You just never know!

Good luck!!