Adopting from foster care

If you want to get a realistic picture of what it's like to be a foster parent, the best thing to do is talk with the folks who are living it.

It was tucking-in-bed time. He’d been quiet, withdrawn, and I could tell why. My son is an older foster child, whom we are in the process of adopting. At 5 years of age, my foster son entered the system. He came to us at age 7. He is now 8. Not to say his life […]

Foster to adopt is the most common method of adoption and the reason most foster parents decide to foster children. Learn more about adoption though foster care here.

This free printable Homestudy checklist for adoption and foster care will make gathering documentation easier.

Have questions about adoption from foster care? Here are some of the answers including waiting children lists and past issues with potential parents.

This is a post I originally wrote in April 2013. Many of you are new here, so I thought I would bring back some of the basics in the following weeks. Hope you enjoy. ************* In Chris Cleave’s…

I adopted three older children and I've learned a few things along the way. Here are five things to remember when adopting an older child.

Welcome back for the second installment of my series about preparing for an older child adoption from foster care! Steve and I have been doing little things here and there for our kids' rooms since we began our homestudy. We knew we wanted to adopt a sibling group, so we began preparing both of our guest bedrooms to accommodate up to two children each. Now that we know the specific children that will be moving in, we are making more specific changes. We went in with a strategy of keeping…

Learn the first steps to becoming a Foster Parent and Adopting from Foster Care. Where to start, what to expect, how to get answers to your questions.

Older child adoption has given me more joy, more sadness, more fulfillment, more stress and more gray hairs than anything else in my life.