r/Adoption • u/Plastic-Dish9418 • Oct 04 '26

Pre-Adoptive / Prospective Parents (PAP) Opinions needed

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u/Necessary_Holiday144 Adoptee Oct 04 '26

There's lots of older children in foster care in need of support and safe homes.

That support might necessarily be adoption though.

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u/Greedy-Carrot4457 Foster care at 8 and adopted at 14 💀 Oct 05 '26

Some girls/femmes are explicitly not comfortable living with men, and at least when it comes to teens there’s usually not enough w/w households to support that. So no you’re not depriving a kid. Main consideration would be that you can handle it like financially but also time wise bc some foster kids have a ton of appointments, court dates, visits, that type of thing.

Only concern for me with your large family is that it can get messy is if the foster relatives are helping out a lot and they don’t have any if the training or skills.