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Originally Posted By shaun

Welive in the UK,our homesudy has to be done by our local Council Social Services Dept,they have a policy of not placing children older than the youngest bio child.We wish to adopt a child from Russia,he is 5 and we have a 1 yr old baby ,we also have 3 other kids,8,13,19.The social services are wanting us to give them reasons why we dont think the adoption would be detrimental to our youngest child.Does anybody know good proven reasons that we can use to argue our case,we know our kids and they are delighted that we want to have another member to our family.The baby naturally can not voice his opinion on the adoption

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Originally Posted By Jean Erichsen

Dear Friends,

Good social work practice decrees that the adopted child should be the youngest in the family.

However, when a new child enters the family, it is not usually the new child who has the most difficult adjustment. It is usually the existing children. In your case, it would be the one year old.