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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.

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I guess it depends on how you are defining small and 'few' infants/toddlers.  
Most recently- Arlington had 90 children in care and Alexandria had 88.  Of those Arlington had 5 children under the age of 1 and 26 children under the age of 5.  Alexandria had 5 children under the age of 1 and 23 under the age of 5.  http://www.dss.virginia.gov/geninfo/reports/children/fc.cgi

In terms of adoption- Arlington had 31 children with the goal of adoption- 15 of them in the 5 and under cohort.
Alexandria had 37 children with the goal of adoption, 13 of those in the 5 and under cohort.  I would not consider having more than a 1/3 of the population to have a goal of adoption to be a 'low adoption statistic.'

I also disagree about the statement that there is a preference for a stay at home parent-- I think this is simply false.[/quote]

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