My husband and I want to adopt, he's paralyzed fromt the waist down, can that keep us from being approved?

Question

We are planning on a domestic adoption for a newborn or twins. My husband also has MS, but it's remissive/regressive and will not get worse (not that it's even bad now).

Answer 1

no. you can be approved if you have a good home and life style for the kid.

Answer 2

In order to do foster care/adoption in the United States you must go through a physical to make sure you are healthy enough to have children. They want to make sure they don't get children into a situation where they are taking care of adults, when they themselves are only kids.

My suggestion is to talk to a case worker.

Answer 3

That really depends on the adoption criteria. If you’re planning to adopt an infant and go through a birthmother it would be her decision what parents to place her baby with.

A handicapped parent can be just as good as an able body parent and nothing guarantees that an able body parent is not going to one day suffer some sort of accident that will make them handicapped.  Really you all just need to find an agency that will be willing to work with you all and there most be some out there.

I watched on TLC a baby story about a woman who was paralyzed from the waist down. Now even though the baby was her biological child, if she can parent a baby with and accepting help.  I see no reason why anyone else can not do the same thing.

Answer 4

For US adoptions, absolutely not. I don't know about other countries and their policies. The US cannot discriminate against you for a disability. It is ultimately about the needs of a child. The only reason I could see this being an issue would be if you wanted a child who is medically fragile or needed care that your husband could not provide. For a healthy child, his disability shouldn't be a problem at all.

Answer 5

i dont think that it will keep you from being apporoved.

Answer 6

Maybe you could adopt a child who's paralyzed.

Would you want that? Hmmmm.

Answer 7

I think you're safe, dear.

In the U.S., there are laws about discrimination because of physical disablity, so if that's where you are, you'll be able to adopt. Being paralyzed from the waist down doesn't affect someone's parenting skills.

Answer 8

NO. that shouldnt. In fact I would think it would work in your favor.. If you two are a loving providing parents.. God bless you for your efforts of wanting to home a darling baby!

Answer 9

It depends on what specific country that you're adopting from, but to my knowledge they cannot. If you reside inside the United States it's illegal to discriminate in such a fashion, against your husband's disability that is.

Answer 10

Unfortunately, in the US and other non 3rd world countries, yes. Try adopting an older child. In some 3rd world countries you will need to come up with a big chunk of change for them to overlook his disability. They are thinking what happens if you die? Is this child going to be his caretaker? Unfortunately, children are adopted for this reason. You'll have to pay a facilitator or organization off.

God bless you and your husband!