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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My first cynical thought was OF COURSE she got a newborn six months after "starting the adoption journey."

A process that takes years for everyone else takes months when you know the right people, I guess.  [/quote]

Domestic adoption generally only takes years for people who are waiting for a healthy white newborn.

And, as she even said in her announcement, she expected it to take longer, but adoption timelines can be totally unpredictable sometimes[/quote]

She adopted a black baby, perhaps one from foster care? [/quote]

Highly unlikely to be from foster care. The child is a newborn. It takes time to adopt from foster care; parents have the right to work a case plan, birth relatives get priority, and parental rights need to be terminated in court. And if she hadn't officially adopted the baby I don't think she would have presented it as such. I am guessing it's a private adoption.[/quote]

It depends if you have already terminated your parental rights and then have another child then CPS may possibly take away the baby when he or she is born. [/quote]

The child may be removed at birth, yes. But removal is not the same as TPR, and TPR is not the same as adoption. Even if a child is removed at birth, it takes months or years to search for birth relatives or the sibling's adoptive parents (each of which gets priority in adoption), terminate rights, and formally adopt the child. The mayor announced she had adopted a child. I cannot imagine that she would have announced that unless the adoption had already happened and there was 0 chance of the child going elsewhere. And there is no way the foster care system finished the adoption process while the child was still a newborn. In general with adoption from foster care, even when TPR has already occurred, the child has to be placed in the adoptive home for six months before the adoption is finalized.[/quote]

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