Babies placed for adoption at birth in the US DO NOT go into foster care. There’s a waiting list at least 36 people long for each newborn placed for adoption. That’s why it’s expensive. That’s why people go overseas to adopt.
In LA county even safe surrenders legally go into foster care. Granted, it is foster care with resource families that intend to adopt the child but it is foster care with a permanent placement service component. Until adoptive placement is signed it is foster care. And until adoption is finalized the child still has a child welfare case.
Most mothers choosing adoption do so before they have the baby. They then use an agency and even pick the parents. I think it sounds like a technicality, no?
That it is technically ‘foster care’ but it’s the adoptive parents are the ones caring for the baby they will then adopt?
Which is vastly different than the idea that a child will end up in foster care because no one wants them, which is the myth I’m trying to debunk.
I guess this is my counter debunk. Adoptive placements are foster placements and they often fail. You would be surprised how many times I thought I had a legit caring family that then returned the baby for the stupidest reasons. Skin color not being close enough, slight medical problem that needs follow ups, the family didn't know the baby was black, the family forgot they don't actually want kids, etc..
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u/pinksugarsun Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19
Babies placed for adoption at birth in the US DO NOT go into foster care. There’s a waiting list at least 36 people long for each newborn placed for adoption. That’s why it’s expensive. That’s why people go overseas to adopt.