What are the views on adoption in teen versus babies?
ByMany adoptions sites and agencies advertise the adoption in babies but not in teens? I need more help and info on this topic please. Please post site to credit.
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5 Comments
January 31st, 2010 at 5:54 pm
babies are better
January 31st, 2010 at 5:56 pm
There are quite a few teens in foster care waiting to be adopted. I’d imagine it’s pretty difficult for a teenager to accept a brand new family, but that’s no different from an infant…just the infant can’t voice his/her opinion on the matter. Teens who don’t get adopted will age out of foster care at 18 with no “home”, no family support, no help. There are a few programs now, but they’re not enough. Babies don’t have any problem getting adopted – everyone wants a baby. But teens need it most.
January 31st, 2010 at 6:47 pm
It’s a very sad situation, but there are thousands of teens to adopt, as well as all children above toddler age. There are many views of why people want infants, and as any mother knows, once a child is here on earth, it’s much harder to place it for adoption rather than to keep it, and even harder to find a parent(s) to adopt an older child.
On the other hand, we’ve been wishing to adopt an older child, and ended up with a newborn by networking with friends. It’s a wonderful opportunity, and we couldn’t be more thrilled (he’s 13 months now), but there aren’t the agencies available that deal with older child adoption, like newborns, and the sad but true fact is to look at the adoption fees for newborns. Try googling foster children, available adoption, sibling groups, international adoption, chilen available, and with some of these, also try to add the word adoption to it. Your local department of human resources might even have an available person to come talk to your class about foster parenting, and adoption through the foster care system. That’s one thing they don’t normally teach in school, and it would be great if they could. Good luck to you!
January 31st, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Hey. Goto adoptuskids.org
There are tons of teens looking for famillies. And I respectfully have to disagree with Gaia…most kids want a family. In fact, when you get a certain age in foster care, you can decide that you no longer wish to be adopted….but most kids DO NOT choose that. Most still want someone to be a family….
They may be “more difficult” in the sense that they are dealing with adoption shit, past life shit, and “being a teenager”….but they are still wanting a home.
And in cases of older kids, you can actually meet with them and spend time with them before you agree to the “trial period.” For instance, you might go out to dinner with a teen a couple of times (whereas in younger foster care, they just drop you off at some place).
Adopting an older teen would be wonderful. No one wants them. In fact, most kids are too old by the time they hit 7.
January 31st, 2010 at 7:08 pm
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