[hope2adopt777]

I am 21 and my husband is 24!
We became licensed to adopt on December 6 2011.
Here's are little short story: We got married at a young age. I was only 17...after we got married I found out that I had female problems and there would be a chance I could not get pregnant which didn't bother me much because I have always wanted to adopt from foster care!! So I waited till the day I turned 21. In October, my birthday fell on a sunday so that Monday I called and started the process. We were licensed in December, which from what I heard is extremely fast...(classes were divided into 2 8 hours days for 16 hours and home study divided into 2 days) Anyway back to the point with us being so young, what do you think our max age should be? We went ahead and said ages 0-5, any race, any gender, up to 2 sibs...My question is do you think this age range is appropriate for our young ages? If we are not matched at what point should we consider increasing our age limit? I'm sure we could handle an older child, I just worry it would feel more like a siblingship, then a parent/child relationship. Do you think 7 would be to old right now?

[AranciaRhapsody]

Congrats! My husband is 31 and I am 27. Since we are also on the younger than most we have decided to do 0-7yrs mostly we decided this because our oldest niece is 8 and we didn't want to disrupt the flow of our family since we are close but we are also trying to keep in mind not having teens because it would feel more like a sibling my youngest brother is 18 which would just add to our awkward family. You have to do what you think is more comfortable with. Keep in mind it could take a while for everything to go through so kids that are 5 that you start pursuing now may be 7 by the time the adoption is finalized. You have to choose an age you think you would feel comfortable parenting as of right now, 7 may not be too old but would you feel comfortable skipping the younger ages and go straight to the pre-teens?
Good Luck!

[polkadotz40]

You are not alone! I got married at the age of 20 and soon became pregnant but ended up miscarrying With all the complications from the miscarriage and after 4 years of trying to conceive on our own, we were told by my RE that it would be best to try egg donors or surrogacy. We stopped trying and soon found that maybe adoption would be best for us. My husband is 26 and I am now 24 almost 25. We were pretty much laughed at by one agency who only does private adoptions and soon became scared others would feel the same. We found our adoption agency 2 weeks later by the grace of GOD. We started the process on Jan 23 , 2012. We are almost home study ready as we have completed all our training

We are doing Foster-Adoption with children who have parental right's already terminated meaning they are healthy children who were forced from their parents homes or were abandoned at a Safe Haven location in the State of Colorado. BTW I am from CO
We are doing a single to 2 sibling adoption and even have the possibility of getting two infants who are the same age and race. We are looking at the age group of 0-24 months. Which may seem steep for most States but our agency places at least 3-4 infants a month with Foster Parents or adoption ready couples. My husband is active duty military so our process is going super fast in case we are to be stationed in another State. We will be considered Foster Parents for at least 90 days, in which time we are able to file paper work for full adoption. In the state of Colorado children under 6,who are adoption ready ( parental rights terminated), the State likes for them to be adopted finalized within 45-60 days after the paper work has been filed. Of course there is not an appeal period because the rights have already been terminated <3

If you have any questions PM ME!

[Jensboys]

I was 25 when we were placed with our sons that were then ages 3 and 4 You are not alone.

[polkadotz40]

This give me much hope Jensboys!

[kryp2nite]

Thanks for posting this!
My husband and I are also young, and we have two young children. We have just started looking into the process and are considering all avenues of care (adoption, fostering, foster to adopt). I am a newly 24 and my husband will be 25 in June. We got married when we were 20. We have two boys (biological) 17 months apart (2 months old and 19 months old). (I hope we dont sound crazy! HAHA) We discussed the age max, and i think 0-7 is it. But we are open to other ages. I would love a 2-4yr old though.

Best wishes to you and yours on your journey!