If anyone knows of a possible adoption situation...please help my husband and me out. We have been attempting to adopt for over six years through agencies and foster care. We always seem to come in second for being chose. We have also had a couple fall through.
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have you tried foster to adopt? there are lots of local agencies here in Ft. Worth and I'm sure all over the country.
I'm sorry. I am sure it is disappointing.
Hi Kelly,
My husband and I have adopted two of our sons through Gladney in Fort Worth. They were domestic adoptions. Sounds like you need to find a good adoption agency if you have waited for 6 years!
I am not familiar with foster care and adoption but I would that that in time you can adopt. If you are looking to adopt an older child it would very easy and cost you nothing if you go through the State. If you are wanting an infant adoption there are plenty agencies around here to assist you and your family. Of course none of them are equal. Some require you pay for medical care of the birth mothers, give financial support during pregnancy and some do NOT allow for your money to move forward towards another possible adoption if the mother decided to change her mind. I wanted NO financial risk and decided on Gladney for that main reason. Most all agencies have orientations for their agencies you can get the info you need to make a decision. If you are trying adoption on your own with a private adotpion the risks are very high and you could lose alot both financial and emotional. It is very wise for you to have someone to represent you in this emotional, financial, legal journey.
It makes no sense to me that you have waited so long if you are using an agency. (?)
Caroline
Well, I was going to suggest the foster care system, but you said you have tried that. My husband and I were relicensed less than three years ago (we've done foster care off and on all our marriage), and are already probably on our third adoption, and we really only intended to adopt the older brother and sister of our little boy (didn't even know the little boy was conceived. In the end, mom got the older ones back, but reliquished her baby) Then our next foster child went home, and we got two little girls within two weeks of her leaving (they were not sisters). We adopted the older one, and the second one went to a relative placememt, and six days after she left, and three weeks after the adoption of our daughter was final, we were asked to take our daughters full sibling five month old baby brother, and he will almost certainly be an adoption, too. That will give us 10 children, seven biological, three adoptions, but how could we turn her brother down?
I think if you hang in there with foster care, you will end up with a child. Our first adoption, our son, was actually our daughters foster son, and we got to help care for him from birth. Our second, our daughter, came to us when she was two and a half, and her adoption was final December 20, she was four. Her little brother, who came to live with us nine days ago, just turned six months.
Hello! My name is Kenya. I have some friends that are tring to adopt also. They have been waiting for quiet sometime. Another friend in Florida, adopted from the church of christ. I hope that you get your child soon. You will be in my thoguhts and prayers. Just pray and everything will be okay....
Good Luck with everything....
Kenya
I second Gladney in Ft.Worth
Have you thought of international adoption? I know that it can be very expensive, but maybe you should at least look into it.
We've worn your shoes! In Texas there is a 48 hr. waiting period from the time the mother gives birth until the Adoptive parents can pick the baby up from the hospital (as you may know). My husband & I came so close that we waited the first 24 hrs. & then decided it was time to get our bags together, make a hotel & airplane reservation & pick up "our son".....well nothing went as planned. This was a private adoption & the mother changed her mind in the last 24 hrs.. Talk about hard! We've actually been thru 10 yrs. of infertility treatment & 4 failed adoptions. We tried to adopt privately, thru an agency, thru the state & out of state. All were very different. I would advise a private adoption if you could chose.
We miraculously were blessed with twins 2 yrs. ago thru fertility measures. God has HIS plan all along. You must trust that the child that was not given to you was designed for someone else. It is critical on your marriage to be on the same page. This process nearly split us apart & we are solid christians. Be patient & keep praying for the RIGHT baby! Best of luck. Feel free to e-mail me anytime.
Did you adopt your first son?
Judie
check out acresofhope.org for Liberian adoptions.
Hello
I just wanted to tell you to hang in there. I also think that you just have not met your blessing yet. Remind yourself that God has a plan for all of us and your child is yet to come. I also have foster kids and 3 kids of my own. I belive that you are helping the kids that are placed in your home threw the foster care and your willingness to surve others will not go without reward! Jeremiah 29:11 says For I know the plans I have for you,plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a furture! So, just keep praying and something will come of it. You should pray for a blessing for the baby and the mother that you have yet to meet. God Bless.
I am a foster and adoption parent through an agency dealing with CPS kids. I adopted my son in november, I have a foster daughter and a biological daughter. I suggest foster agencies. My family has been blessed with 3 adopted children in the last 2 years. I have heard that the gladney in ft worth is a good place.
Be sure the baby you adopt is not stolen by Hope Cottage:
By first appearance Hope Cottage seems like a wonderful place. Started to help abandoned children of Dallas. How admirable! Well, what if the child is not abandoned but has family that desperately wants him. According to a worker they don’t care! It is all about the mother relinquishing the child and them keeping them “safe”. Unfortunately, with the drug epidemic in US the mother may have no choice to get help for her addiction. After speaking with Hope Cottage I find this is the case often now. Now they want to yank the father’s rights away as fast as possible because now they have a baby and the baby business is very lucrative!
A child was born on October 2, 2017 in El Paso Texas at Del Sol Medical Center. The mother Carissa McLeod was distraught and asked for mental health from Hope Cottage. Hope Cottage took the child. They gave the father who was in jail 30 days. The parents of the son in jail hired a lawyer to stop any adoption wanting their grandchild. The grandparents (My husband & myself) wanted the child since we are currently raising/adopted Aiden’s brother. We wanted to keep siblings together. And we wanted to keep family together. Aiden has 10 cousins and 2 brothers – his family.
Hope Cottage ignored the fact the father and grandparents wanted the child and took custody of him . It is like a death sentence. Please, do not let Hope Cottage do this to any other family! Please
The Mother regrets giving the baby to Hope Cottage and thought the father could just go get the baby? I know, but remember she asked to mental help from Hope Cottage.
The child was not abused? Yes, his parents are drug addicts. But even CPS tries to keep the children with the family. I thought the courts did too. The parents were not offered help. Just the child whisked away before any relative could take the child and love him. His brother age (13) Jaden is a National Honor Society Member and Elijah age (3) are well adjust and happy. Jaden comes almost every weekend and lives with his mother. Elijah lives with us his grandparents and is a happy well adjusted (yes spoiled) child.
I am sure adoption is nice for kids that need to be adopted. In this case the child has a family and the family was not allowed to have any say in his pending adoption. He will never know who he is. He will not know his curly hair is because his grandfather is black (African America). He will not know his Grandmother is from a rich culture in the Appalachia hills of Southwest Virginia. He will not know all his cousins. Be he will be missed every time we get together for holidays and vacations.
My mothers neighbour is working part time and averaging $9000 a month. I’m a single mum and just got my first paycheck for $6546! I still can’t believe it. I tried it out cause I got really desperate and now I couldn’t be happier. Heres what I do…
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