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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not going to answer all your questions b/c they provide to much identifying detail.  I  will tell you a few things.
1. Any agency is likely to tell you that they don't have a 'foster to adopt' program and they view potential parents who primarily want to adopt with suspicion.
2. All of the local counties you identify place with their own foster family first- it is highly unlikely that they will send an infant to a private agency.
3. It is very rare, at the beginning of a case, to know if it is going to end in adoption-- the first goal is always reunification. After that is relatives.  After that is adoption.
4. I can think of cases that appeared to be slam dunk adoption that ended in reunification.  Similarly, I can think of cases that were certain reunification that ended in adoption.
5. If you are going to adopt- it is always going to be more than a year before you finalize an adoption- frequently more like 2 or 3.  A birth parent typically gets about a year to attempt to reunify.  Then terminating parental rights takes about a year depending on how many appeals there are.   Then the actual adoption process takes about another 6-9 months.
6. I can think of 7 families off the top of my head who have adopted children who were under two when they were placed with them from one of the counties you identified in the last few years.  All of these families were on board with reunification if it had been safe.   They had mostly fostered other children who had been reunified-- e.g. they had 'proven' themselves to the county.[/quote]

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