Have you ever considered adopting?
Does all the terminology leave you a bit confused?
I just published a new article that begins what will be a fairly regular series called Adoption 101. This series will answer adoption questions that those exploring adoption might ask.
The first article is Adoption 101: What is a homestudy?, and you can read it HERE.
If you have ideas for the Adoption 101, I'd love to hear them. What terminology is confusing? What are some questions that could be answered to help those looking into adoption? Leave a comment and let me know!
5 comments:
GREAT IDEA... Define EVERY SINGLE WORD! The whole thing involves a vocabulary that definitely is over our heads... I still don't know what SDA stands for???
I know, so much was totally unknown to us as well! By the way, SDA is specific to Ukraine and stands for the State Department of Adoption, their governing body for adoptions :)
Really good idea, as i plan to adopt in the future at some point it will be nice to know some terminolgy before. [i do know what a few things are]
I think one of the things that our family questioned (for a domestic adoption) is what legal rights the birth parents have.
While it I don't have a specific word for definition, helping prospective parents understand that delays are common and not always what they expect would be quite helpful. The timeframes published by agencies are more "ideal" than "realistic." I know they try to build in delay time, but you just can't go into the process counting on the timeframe given by your agency. Every adoption is a bit different just as every family is a bit different. We had documents get returned in the mail (bad address given to us by one of our professionals). Our home study sat for a week on the desk of an employee who quit before someone "found" it. We didn't expect things like that. While I know parents can't "expect" everything, they do need to know that the timeframe is a guess at best. They can't say, "Well, we're starting today, so X months from now, we'll have our child." If they do, every delay will be a huge disappointment.
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