Laura: How can my husband and I become Foster parents?
My husband and I have tried for over a year now to have achild and it isn’t working out, so we are thinking about being foster parents.
What are the requirements in the state of georgia and how lond does the process take?
Answers and Views:
Answer by Camille
if I were you and you husband I would suggest to adopt if you want to have children. more then 70% of the kids in foster homes go back with there parents after 2 years. I don’t exactly know the requirements in Georgia but I know that all foster parents most take a course at your county to be a certified foster or adoption parent. The good thing about adoption is you can adopt in any state but it is easier to adopt in your state. I will give you a few websites you can check for requirements and for kids in adoption.
Answer by Captain
Contact DHS in your state and they will guide you were to go.
The process will take at least 90 days, possibly longer. Classes, background checks, employment verification, house inspection, and more is part of this process.
You can let the agency know what type of child you are looking for (age, gender, race, and ask for children who are placed with the intention to be adopted).
Answer by Tree-Geek
What does being unable to conceive have to do with Foster care?
They do not become your children.
They are not your children, you are caring for them for the state.
Why do people always see Foster care as a last resort of the childless?
If you choose Foster care because you can’t have kids, then you’re going into it with the wrong mindset.
I personally find that the best Foster carers are those who have raised children already- as foster kids come with a whole lot more baggage.
Protip: If you want to be foster carers, great! But do it because you have the skills to help these children adjust to family life while waiting to be reunited with their own family or adopted into another. Not because you can’t have kids.
See, when you say “We have tried for over a year to have a kid and we can’t so we’ll foster” you are changing the REASON for caring to be about YOURSELVES and not about the many children, Social Workers and hordes of potential therapists who will be walking into your life. Foster Care is for those who are willing to open their whole lives and person up for scrutiny.
It sounds like I’m trying to scare you away- I’m not- but as a foster carer, I think it’s important people understand that Foster care is first and foremost about the children- and it rubs me the wrong way when I see people making it about *themselves* from the get go.
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