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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's this organization: https://www.facebook.com/secondchanceadoptions/

They are constantly looking for adoptive parents for children in the age range you describe. They are almost all physically healthy.[/quote]

Those folks are getting a serious side-eye from me.  What on earth?  A private adoption that may or may not involve a home study and is illegal in at least 4 states?  [/quote]

It may not even be a legal adoption.  Sometimes its just done informally where the parents give the new parents a letter.  Most adoptions require a homestudy but sometimes, in these, they don't.  It still happens in those states but they just work around the laws.  We know of one situation it was done in and very very shady.[/quote]

I am not an adoptive parent, nor am I working for this agency, but I do think they are doing necessary work. All of you are warning OP about the pitfalls of older-child adoption. Too many families are unprepared, and there needs to be a remedy for these children besides foster care.

This particular group is an adoption agency; the reason they are illegal in some states is that some states will not work with an out-of-state agency:

These children in Second Chance are not currently state or foster children, but were originally adopted from either the U.S. foster care or from overseas. They have experienced adjustment problems, and their parents want to help find a new family to adopt them. [b]The new adoption will be done fully legally and recognized by the child's first state and the new family's state. A private home study by a state licensed social worker or home study agency will be needed for an adoption of one of these children. [/b]

This program is to help parents with a new legal secondary adoption, not a guardianship or conservatorship. All state and federal laws are followed.

A disruption of an adoption is often the result of unknown issues the children bring with them from whatever situation they came from, whether from a foreign country or foster care. Families are often not prepared for the extreme behaviors these children exhibit. We do not condemn these families; we understand their frustrations and feelings of despair.

The Second Chance program was designed to give disrupting families a way to locate a home study approved family and make sure that the adoptions follow state laws and are ICPC approved. Our adoptions are more expensive than the ones people do by independently advertising on the internet because we work hard to find the best homes available for these hurting children and we ensure that all parties’ needs are met.

Second Chance adoptions are Direct Consent adoptions. [b]This means that the placing family has an attorney working with them on the placement and the adopting family also has an attorney working for them. All applicable state laws are adhered to and the ICPC is approved by both states. [/b]
Our program has had successful re-adoptions for the last three years. We have the children’s best interests constantly in mind when we work with their disrupting families. Second Chance is a program with a state licensed adoption agency, Wasatch Adoptions, located in Ogden, UT. Wasatch has been licensed as a full service child-placing agency since 1997.
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