[wants2adopt1more]

DH and I are approved to adopt. At the beginning of the process we stated we wanted a cau girl between the age of 3-8. We have been approved to adopt for 7 months and we have been told that there are not alot of cau girls to adopt at the age we are looking for. So we have decided to also put on our list that we want to adopt a hispanic girl between the ages of 3-8. My question is...in your experience how long was the wait to adopt a hispanic child verses a cau child? Are there more hispanic children to adopt in the Texas adoption system than Cau?

[rsbg]

Just from what I've seen, there are a lot of Hispanic children in the TX system, but they all seem to be in large sibling groups (like from 3 sibs to 7 sibs). Again, that is just what I have seen.

I will keep you in mind though, should I see anyone that fits your description.

[tddjc]

I have to agree with the last poster I have been waiting Forever for a girl between 6-12 and would love a hispanic child, although i left it open to any ethnicity, and it's always a sibling group situation. If I didn't already have 3 bio and could take more kids I would not be waiting still!

[high5tou]

I found that most of the girls in this age group were being adopted by their foster parents. We put in for so many girls and even siblins and nothing ever came of it. We were fostering and we now have a sib set of 2, and another single. The sib set of 2 are going TPR and we just got them in October. Since we are their foster placement we will be first in line to adopt. We are very excited as they fit right in and were exactly what we were looking for

Maybe you should try fostering?

Lea

[sudeetoo]

I have to agree that alot of the hispanic children are in sibling groups. I am foster only, and have done this for about 7 years and all my hispanic children have been in a sibling group - I've never, ever had a "single hispanic". But, this goes for alot of ethnicities.
I am cau. and my husband is hispanic, our bio. children are a beautiful mix of both. There are so many "mixtures" out there that perhaps you ought to explore the possibility of adding other ethnicities. A child may be 50/50 but only one race can be selected as the identifier for that child and alot of times that child will favor the race that is not listed. There are so many beautiful children out there, and once you fall in love with one - eye, hair and skin color don't even factor in any more.

[jllambert]

We adopted our daughter from CPS. She is Hispanic. I think we were just very lucky, because we had not even received our license in the mail yet and they called to tell us that we had been matched to "C" in the selection staffing. She was almost three years old when we were matched. She had been in a foster home for 18 months. She did not have any siblings. I believe with all my heart God put us together, and I feel that is why we did not have a long wait. I know many people have waited a year or longer for an adoptive placement. Our CW has even told us it is a long wait to be matched with a Legal Risk Child and an even longer wait for a straight adopt child. She also suggested we foster. Saying that foster parents are first in line if case plan becomes adoption. We have been matched again with a sibling set for adoption, but have opted out (long story) and are now going to start fostering. We are so grateful to our daughters foster family. We feel like it is our turn to give back. Good luck to you! I know the wait seems never ending, but in the end when you hold your child in your arms it is worth every second you had to wait and every tear you shed! Good Bless you and your family

[dantheman2]

We are adopting a Hispanic girl - 7 years old - we waited 9 months for the placement.

[Barksum]

For some reason girls tend to be harder to get.

We tried for awhile (3 separate adoptions) to adopt a girl thru the state foster system (not TX, but still foster care). We were never matched with a girl, and were only considered 2 times for girls. We were considered for approx. 10 kids in all, and were chosen for 3. The 3 we were matched with were all boys. Not that I'm complaining! Our boys are wonderful people. So in our limited experience girls were tougher for some reason.

We were initially open to any child, any race, under age 5 or 6-ish, with a fair variety of special needs being doable. For the second adoption we were open to any child, any race, under age 3 or 4, due to the ages of our other kids, still a fair variety fo special needs being doable. For the 3rd adoption we were open to any child, any race, under 3 or 4, but preferred a girl.

We did adopt a little girl, but she is a relative, so I don't count that as wanting to adopt a little girl and being matched since we would have adopted her regardless of sex and we were fast tracked through the process because we were relatives and we had a foster license and adoption homestudy in place and made it clear to the cw's that we were interested from the first time we heard about the baby in care.