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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Around here it's pretty much Barker or Adoptions Together if you aren't going through your local agency and trying foster to adopt.

The training and homestudy and costs are similar. I got the sense that Barker is much more directive in making a match--they did more of the searching and presented you with kids whose workers thought you might be an option (some kids don't want to leave their state or only want families with/without kids, pets, a city, certain religion, single parent, same-sex parent, etc.). Adoptions Together lets the prospective parents do more of the searching and inquiries. Barker also requires that you be open to adopting a kid aged 12+, knowing that most kids younger than that whose workers are seeking out of state placement are either part of a larger sibling group or have more severe special needs. Adoptions Together will let you specify younger kids, but it doesn't change the underlying fact that if you are placed with an elementary school-aged kid who's been legally freed for adoption and their local agency can't find someone, that the kid is likely to have been through a LOT and will probably have the trauma and behaviors that come from that.[/quote]

The county does home studies and adoptions for free.  [/quote]

Most counties won't let you use their homestudies for out of state placements, talk to workers from outside the country, know anything about icpc or out of state adoption subsidies, or how to get a kid on to your states Medicaid. So they are a great option if you want to adopt from your county, but not otherwise.[/quote]

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