Custody vs. Adoption if you are given custody can you put child up for adoption?
ByI have a friend that her nephew has been placed in foster care. They are going to give her custody of the child. The biological mother’s rights are going to be terminated. Does this mean if she has custody the child can go through an private adoption with me being the adoptee or does this mean that the state has to put the child up for adoption and I apply for adoption through them?
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6 Comments
April 27th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
o gosh… why would they give her custody of a child she does not want? geesh… please take the child if you mean well, he desevrves a good life!
April 27th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
If she is getting custody of the child from an agency[which I infer she is getting the child as a relative placement---and there is a Big difference between rel foster care and rel custody]. An NO you can not get the child from her—you will have to contact the agency. Also,remember the parents have NOT lost their parental rights—not in custody cases and the court retains jurisdiction over ALL Custody cases.There will not be any private adoption here. The court is involved.
You will stand no more of an advantage of getting this child than my next door neighbor.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
No. And it’s disgusting that his aunt is going to do this to him.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
This is totally appalling. Ugh.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Whatever happens, YOU won’t be the adoptee, you’ll be the adopter. Also, wtf are the placing a child with someone who doesn’t want it and is planning on giving it away – thus reinforcing its belief that it is an person unworthy of love… and trust me, that really IS what it’ll grow up to think, since not only does it get taken away from its mother (which is the worst thing EVER that can happen to a child, according to research), but it then also gets abandoned by the next person in its life too.
What you SHOULD be doing, if you actually give a toss at all about this child, is talking to the Social Services (or whoever is placing it with its aunt) and telling them that while you are mentioning it as an interested party, you think that they should know BEFORE the child becomes even more traumatised by being abandoned that the aunt does not want to parent the child and is planning on giving it away.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
first, custody is just custody and not the legal parent so she cannot put child up for adoption. The bio parents rights will not be terminated till a family is approved and waiting to adopt or the child will go into the National data base for available children to adopt. If the child is in foster care and they give an aunt custody, that child is still a ward of the state so the state has control or where that child goes. If you are truly interested in adopting then get a hold of the case worker immediately. You will need to pass an adoption homestudy done to get the child though.