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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thinking of adoption at some point... and would love to hear from others experiences with the process!
1. Did you already have kids?
2. Did you adopt privately through an agency or through the foster system?
3. How long did the process take?
4. What age was your child(ren) when you adopted?
5. How much did the adoption cost?
6. Anything you learned along the way that would be helpful to someone considering adoption or anything you did differently you would share?)[/quote]

1.  No
2. Foster to adopt.
3. about a year -- we fostered first, then they were released for adoption (bio parental rights terminated) 
4. 3 and 6 -- bio siblings 
5. O. Everything was free -- including home study (which had to be done for fostering -- it was just updated for the adoption), workshops,/trainings etc
6.  We had fostered our kids  -- b/g bio siblings for about a year -- before being offered/completing the adoption, so the kids already considered us Mom & Dad. You will not just adopt right off the bat. Be prepared to foster first for several rounds of placements.  We are unusual in that we adopted the first kids we fostered. It will much easier to foster/adopt if you can take a sibling group --usually 2-3 kids.  I (mom) was able to stay at home the year we fostered and then the year when  we adopted due to the no -cost issue. (Then i returned full-time.) That played a great deal in our favor.  I don't think social services is looking for families where both parents plan to work full-time/overtime and plan to leave their new children with a nanny. We were fully bonded with our kids by the time we went to court to make it legal. [/quote]

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