Infant foster care

Foster to adopt is the most common method of adoption and the reason most foster parents decide to foster children. Learn more about adoption though foster care here.

With the possibility (let’s be honest, probability) of the children leaving, I’ve had this inner desire to make them more real to the outside world as if that would somehow prove they w…

A friend got a call today that she’s getting her first placement as a foster parent: a newborn baby boy. Her questions made me want to put together a list of suggestions to ask if you’re picking up a newborn. These are different than the questions you might ask for the placement of an older child.

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Speed up the foster care home study process by doing these 10 things. Have your home ready and your paperwork in order faster to become a foster parent.

To every foster or adoptive mom, it really is like you're parenting two children in one... emotional needs of an infant layered under age appropriate needs of your child

Here are six common misconceptions surrounding the youngest children in the foster care system and six explanations to set the record straight. #WaitNoMore #FosterCare #Adoption #Infant #Parenting #FosterParents #FosterFamily #Family

I remember receiving what must have been a dozen phone calls over the course of a week… just waiting for a placement. We waited… and waited… and waited. I thought, “Surely, there is a child out there for us. During training classes, we heard nonstop about the great need for willing families.”

In our state, all perspective foster and adoptive families are required to complete a checklist of characteristics as part of the home study. Couples and individuals must determine the "type" of children they are willing to consider. Questions include: gender, age, race, family history, medical conditions, mental and emotional health, education, personality, behavior, etc. It's…

The truth about foster parenting and the toll fostering hurt children could have on you and your marriage. #adoption attachment parenting