What is the difference between foster care or adoption ?

Question

its very confusing please help me

Answer 1

Adoption is when you have an atterny and go through a long process to get a child permenatly. Fostering is when you have to take classes and get a license. You then care for children until they find an adoptive family. It can be months or years.

Answer 2

The purpose of foster care is to reunify the child with his/her parents.  Adoption is permanent, and as Heather pointed out, pretends that the new family is the ONLY family the child has ever had, or ever will have.  Some children are in foster care waiting for new families, but the majority are there for the purpose of family preservation.

Answer 3

adoption is when the child becomes legally yours by the courts. They're name and birth certificate gets changed and its like the child was born to you. Foster care can be temperary or very long term depending on the individual situation. It is usually till the child can safely return to their parents or after a certain amount of time the child can be adopted. Its not uncommon for foster parents to adopt as they have usually had the child for a year or more and all parties are attached. The main goal when a child is put in foster care is to be re=unified with parents but some cases just make that impossible.

Answer 4

adoption you keep the kid as your own, fostering you only have them until someone else adopts them.

Answer 5

Foster care is a temporary living situation. Adoption is a permanent commitment to add a child to your family.

Answer 6

adoption you pay for the kid and foster care the government pays you to take care of the kid. And everything above me is correct to. Except Heather B.

Answer 7

Yep pretty much Fostering is where Foster parents take care of the child it could be any where from a few days to years. I was placed with my family as a foster baby I was only meant to stay the weekend but they had no where else for me to go at the time so I ended up staying and was eventually adopted by my foster family, when I was 3years old.   One thing to note is not all Foster kids are available for adoption, the ones that are yes they try to find adoptive homes for them , sometimes their foster parent(s) might end up adopting them , sometimes this does not happen.

Adoption is where a person legally adopts the child making the child legally their child.

Answer 8

In foster care, the child often moves from home to home, being taken care of that may not want a permanent child. they do this to give the child some since of a home life or stability rather than staying in  an orphanage where they wont get as much one on one attention. Adoption is where a child is taken in by a family and is legally considered their child. Many people adopt children from poverty stricken countries or where living conditions aren't as good. Sometimes people that foster a child will want them to be stay with them and adopt them. Adoption is a very expensive process, and takes a long time and a lot of paper work, but it is great for people who cant have babies, or want to do something to help a little child. I hope your not as confused anymore.

Answer 9

Foster care is when a state or local agency intervenes  for children who have been removed from the care of their parents due to abuse and/or neglect.  The court makes these decisions when they deem that theparents cannot safely care for the child.  The court then institutes a plan of reunification and reviews the progress, typically every six months.  If they parents fail to reunify with their children within that time frame, an extension can be granted, usually up to 18 months of total reunification services.  After that period, the court requests a study of adoptability be completed.

If the child is found to be adoptable then the court will refer the child to the local social services agency responsible for adoption who will search for a family and match a child with an appropriate family (that is, if the foster parents whom the child has been residing with do not want to adopt).

More than half of all children in foster care are placed with relatives who typically adopt or go with legal guardianship to ensure that biological ties are maintained and raise the child. The others are adoptive families who will adopt and care for the child as their own.  

States vary on the laws and procedures for adoption.  And there are also private adoptions or international adoptions that have nothing to do with foster care at all.

Answer 10

Foster Care is when you have children come and live at your house until they can be adopted. Adoption is when you find a child you would like to adopt and adopt it. In Foster Care, you get paid so much per month for each child.When you adopt a child, it takes a long process and it can even fall through. In Foster Care, people called DCS Workers come to your house I think about every four to six weeks and check on how clean your house is, how the child has been kept up,the child's grades, and to see if the child likes where they are staying. If the have suspecions on the child is being abused, they will most likely look to see if the child has bruises. Well i hoped that I helped a lot !!!!!

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Answer 11

adoption is permanent fostering is temporary until child can be placed with adopted family or returned to there home

Answer 12

All of the above and also the child in foster care keeps their identity and their original birth certificate.

When a child is adopted in most States of the USA their original identity is stripped away as if it never existed and the records sealed.  It's a cruel practice left over from the depression era that is long outdated.

Answer 13

Foster care you help raise a child and either the child will be adopted or at the age of 18 or out of high school there on the own. Adoption is where you are now the parents either way you get a big tax break and benifits where you have your own you have to pay for yourself.

   But if I had to chose i would take a child out of foster care.and adopted them just to make sure they always have a home to go to.  I have watched a friend of mine be a foster mother for years just to lose her children because she couldn't kick the ones aged out on the street.  Most of her children were teenages that had been through atleast 25 other homes. Now 2 years latter 3 of the girls are pregant and the others are close behind the other ones. The 2 she didn't kicked out are in jail. After being forced to make them move out they couldn't take care of them self and broke the law they were both very slow learners and close to being mental retarded.

Answer 14

Adoption is permanent care and Foster Care is temporary

Answer 15

interesting what people think foster care is!  

Mom of Many gave the best most accurate description

Answer 16

Foster care is when you are taking care of a child for social services. Adoption is when you become legal guardian of that child.

Answer 17

foster parents usually have the kids until they are adopted out and foster parents get paid while the child is in their home and those who adopt a child have them as their own kids and they dont fet paid but my friend started out as a foster mom but ended up adopting the girl

Answer 18

1st answer is correct.

Answer 19

foster care is temporary care for child who has been taken from a family that is going through a hard time or thats waiting to be placed for adoption.

adoption is taking a baby/child into your home and you are the legal parents forever.

Answer 20

Foster care is temporary care for an individual while adaption is taking someone in as a family member. in adoption you become one of the family