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Originally Posted by Dakotabluebaby
If you go through the county or state through Foster/adopt there is more risk involved in the parents turning their lives around and 'earning' the child back, but the process is usually 6 months to a year.
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Like Dakota said, this is not the case if the child's parents have terminated their rights. This will be the case in the majority of older children in the system. Our daughter's parents had terminated their rights years before we got her, and unfortunately she'd been shuffled to 14 different placements before she got to us. It just absolutely sucks for those older kids, since it seems like all anybody wants are the babies.
On the other hand, one can totally sympathize with the idea of wanting them little. With the older kids you get a whole different set of challenges, and still miss out on the infant-toddler years.
If I ever meet my daughter's real mom I may likely punch her in the face. She has no idea how selfish she was and what she did to that girl.
