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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope to foster a infant/toddler with the intention of adopting them if they become available for adoption within the next few years. If you have fostered and adopted an infant/toddler in Northern Virginia, can you:

1. Tell me if you went through the county (Arlington, Fairfax, Alexandria) or a private agency?
2. Tell me how long was the entire process from the time the child was placed with you until you adopted?
3. Tell me if you fostered/adopted one child or a sibling group?

Thanks![/quote]

1.  Over the past 12 years, went through the training and was certified in both Alexandria or Arlington.  Both are small and both place few infants/toddlers.  They now tell you that you are primarily a "resource parent" with the goal of fostering until the child can return home.  Adoption stats for both places are pretty low. The preference for infants/toddlers was having a stay at home parent. Cuts down on their costs and admin overhead in terms of getting children to appointments, paying for daycare vouchers. etc.  Private agencies by and large deal with therapeutic and harder to place older children.

2.  Both times, the classes and home study were completed in a relatively normal time frame - maybe 9/10 mths at the most.  As a single parent, I never had any placements and I ended up both times adopting privately on my own and never ended up fostering. I am considering going back to do it again but would only do emergency short term or respite placements nothing long term/

3. I was called about taking a few placements and all were single children. I am sure there are siblings that need placed together.

If your goal is really to adopt, I would suggest that you go ahead and pursue adoption via private domestic adoption or international adoption. It is possible to privately domestically adopt a child who is older than an infant. [/quote]

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