[Aphi86]

We have our first homestudy individual interviews coming up soon. What types of questions does the sw ask? Especially related to your family. We are not close to my family, but don't want to go into why (it is not anything serious, other than I just don't like them, plus we live 1000 miles away from them)

[cr4cr]

The best advice I can give -- is to tell the truth. Answer the questions honestly, but with reserve. In other words, if you don't like your relatives, just say, "We live so far apart that we can't say we have a great relationship, but we try to touch base from time to time and catch up with each other." Don't give any more information than is being asked.

Our social worker was great. We didn't feel like any of the questions were intrusive -- and we certainly didn't feel like she was 'out to get us', so to speak. Chances are that when it is all over you'll wonder why you were so concerned in the first place. Good luck.

[britfish]

They asked us questions about how we will discipline our child, and about daycare, and about ourselves and our lives growing up. We have guns and pets in our lives so safety was talked about and also questions about smoke detectors, fire extinguisers, etc.. It was really a comfortable situation all though weird to talk about w/ a stranger. They also asked about how we were disciplined as children. I agree, answer the questions, but we didn't over elaborate on too much. Mostly just responses like; give a time out and take away a privlige; and left it at that.
Good luck.

[waiting4agirl]

We had our first about two weeks ago and did just as they suggested.

We are not close to my husbands family even though they live in S. Calif. and we live in Sacramento. The SW was a bit curious as to why we were closer to my family out of state than we were to his. We just answered that his mom had been the one holding the family together and with her passing they kind of drifted apart. Obviously there's a whole lot more to the story but that answer satisfied so we didn't elaborate.

I was amazed how simple and easy it went. i was expecting a lot of prying into our personal lives. I was also expecting a white glove inspection of the apartment which she barely looked at. Basically her questions were about our family background growing up, our discipline methods, our relationship with our adult daughter and what we would do to keep Rita connected with her culture. Very simple, straightforward questions. Just felt like someone trying to get acquainted and become a friend.