What is the difference between adoption & foster care?
September 24, 2009 by Adoption Information and Laws
Filed under Fostering & Orphanages
Can you answer Stacy & Ryan’s question about Adoption?:
What is the difference between adoption & foster care?
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What is the difference between adoption & foster care?
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Adoption Feedback: foster care is when you are just temporay parent to help out with the organazation that needs your help, you would care for the child as if he were yours, adoption is that they are yours in the eyes of the court system and you are resposible for them untill they are 18 years old or they die of old age..lol
Adoption Feedback: Foster care is temporary.
Adoption makes the child permanently yours, just as if the baby had been born to you. Once you adopt, you are legally the PARENT of that child, with all the rights, responsibilities, and sleepless nights of every other parent.
Adoption Feedback: Foster parents care for children in the system. They are legally responsible for the kids needs & care. They also get financial & medical aid for the foster kids. But the biological parents can regain custody. In an adoption, the kids are legally & permanently yours. You are then responsible for all the kids needs with no assistance from the government
Adoption Feedback: The main goal of foster care is to provide temporary shelter to a child while the biological family resolves whatever it is that brought the child into care…or sometimes if a single parent has a serious illness that requires someone care for the child…but it is temporary and the goal is always reunification.
Adoption is placing the child in a new legal family….the biological parents no longer have any rights to the child at all. There is usually no further communication between them. It is forever.
In my state people who adopt children over the age of 3, or under 3 with special daily needs or under 3 with siblings, continue to receive money after the adoption until the child turns 18…..but they are legally responsible for the child. The state no longer carries responsibilty.
Adoption Feedback: Kids enter the foster care system usually do to abuse or neglect and stay in care until the parents achieve their service plans, whatever that may be or the family or the courts terminate rights. This usually lasts 2 days—several years.Coming into care the goal is return home but that goal sometimes gets changed to adoption. At this point if the foster parent chooses to adopt the child oe children they have that choice. While the kids are in care the foster parent will receive a board payment for the child’s care[this is not considered income] and a medical care. In some states and some areas there are Foster Parent Support Specialists who are trained to assist you with any questions or problems that may arise.
In adoption the parental rights to the child have been severed and the foster parent can adopt the child and he or she is their forever child. In some states the board payment will continue to be received [as a subsidy] until the child reaches 18; sometimes longer if he attends college along with the medical card. these are some of the things that come to mind at the moment.
A home study will be done before you are approved to foster and an adoptive home study is done before you are approved to adopt.
Feel free to e-mail me if you have any other questions.
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Adoption Feedback: Yes, foster care is temporary, and until the biological parents get their act together, the state has temporary guardianship over the child. If the child goes up for adoption, the state becomes their legal guardian (making all final decisions) until they are adopted.
Adoption is permanent and once the official papers are all signed by the courts and yourself, you then become the guardian.
1) Are the children for adoption generally healthier than the children for foster care/adopt?
2) How long is the process to get from foster care to foster adopt with a child in california?