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[quote=Anonymous]Go to your local children and family services and explain that in time you would like to adopt from foster care.  You will have to go through the Home Study and take training classes to become foster parents.  In MoCo this was 24 hours of training when we did this several years ago.  While the goal of family reunification is a good one, my sense is that there's more emphasis of finding a "forever" family now than there used to be.  The sad reality is that some parents, for lots of different reasons, just aren't able to be the parents their kids want, and need, them to be.  In MoCo, when we were foster parents, about 75% of the kids in foster care were there because their main parent was drug addicted.  In our case our daughter's BM has mental health challenges that caused her to neglect her child.  The BM never showed any interest in reunification, despite being given the opportunity to participate in a reunification program.  The social workers have a good sense for which children will become available for adoption.  [/quote]

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