Actual Adoption Vs. Foster Care Adoption - The Differences Demystified
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios


Defined Tag: Foster Care Adoption.

Some people often mistake adoption with foster care, which should never be the case. They are two different processes with two different sets of results. Whereas basic adoption permanently transfers parental authority over the adopted child to the adoptive parents, foster care adoption grants a temporary and limited parental authority over the ward. A lot of couples who cannot conceive a child of their own often resort to either of these two options, believing that they are synonymous with one another. They are not, and this fact should be made known before any action will be taken.

Parental authority, as exercised by the natural parents, may be stripped off either voluntarily or involuntarily. Parents may abandon their children, for example, or leave them with an institution where they will be taken cared of. Such is a voluntary cessation of parental authority. But when the parents are declared unfit to care for their children, and such declaration is made by an agency mandated by law to make such a pronouncement, the same constitutes an involuntary cessation of parental authority.

The child, who is always the victim of such circumstances, is made the subject of foster care adoption. The child may be temporarily placed with a willing family who will take care of him or her, pending his or her reunification with his or her parent or parents. Or it may be a precursor to actual adoption. The temporary shelter will provide a home for the child until a suitable permanent placement is arranged for his or her benefit.

There have been arguments that foster care adoption is actually detrimental to the psychological and emotional wellbeing of the child. He or she is being forced to live under different environments, after all, and such quick changes will make it difficult for the child to cope up. This is a legitimate concern, and in 1997, then President Bill Clinton approved the law that decreased the amount of time that a prospective adoptee has to stay in a foster home before he can be made eligible for adoption. This law actually promotes immediate adoption, so that the child can have a family - a permanent family - that he or she can truly call his or her own.

Indeed, the process of foster care adoption has changed, much to the benefit of the children who are up for actual adoption. If you and your partner are looking for a child that will complete your family, do apply for actual adoption instead, as this is what you really have in mind.

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