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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You totally can foster as a single mom, but be prepared with a good explanation of how you will handle so many kids of different ages.  Paid help is fine.

If you are only willing to foster one child at a time that may make it harder to get placements, especially if you don't want to take infants.[/quote]

Is it odd that infants are who I would most want? [/quote]

It's not odd, but there aren't that many babies in care without siblings, and the goal is to keep siblings together. Also a newborn can't go to day care for 6-8 weeks (longer if there are medical problems) so you'd need to figure out who will watch the baby.

Depending on where you live, private adoption agencies sometimes need interim families for kids whose parents plan to place them for adoption. The baby goes to the interim family during the period where the parents are allowed to rescind their adoption plan--usually 30 days. If they rescind, the baby goes back to parents. If they don't, the baby goes to an adoptive family.

But this only works if you can care for a newborn and definitely do not want to keep the baby past that recission period.

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