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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing I'd like you to consider is having the adopted child being the only one in the family of a different race.  We have 5 children, two of whom are adopted, and both are hispanic. We specifically wanted the second adopted child to "match" the first so they would each have someone who looked like them (a little bit) in the family. They're already different by virtue of being adopted.

The other thing I'd like you to consider is that many medical issues are chronic as long as the child stays in their foster/orphanage environment. Once their water supply changes or they're not sharing close quarters with other children, what medical documents say on paper is a permanent medical condition may diminish or disappear entirely.  Our son, for example, was presented as having severe respiratory issues that require lengthy and frequent hospitalization.  Because we knew we were having other children, we didn't want one parent to be stuck in a hospital multiple times a year, so he was - on paper - not a good fit for our family. However upon closer inspection, he simply had untreated asthma. He went from spending close to a month in the hospital 4-7 times a year to taking daily asthma treatments, to now having a few inhalers around the house, which he needs less than once a month.

Lastly, we adopted an "older" child, who was only 3. We hear older child and think like 11 or something. But even a 3 year old is considered "older." Please consider the preschooler set. [/quote]

We are interested in adopting a child between newborn and in the preschool set. Ay advice on how to do this would be welcome. Most postings seem to be about adopting newborns so we are not sure if we need to follow a different path to look into preschooler adoptions. We are not inclined to foster bc of the possibility of not getting the child in the end. We have a bio toddler who we need to consider first in this process. [/quote]

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