Where do they put the babies in the adoption agency they must put them somewhere for someone to take care of?

Question

them what are your thoughts on this? It is hard to run adoption agent for sure but what are your thoughts where do they put the kids that are not adopted for a certain period of time? want to here peoples thoughts?

Answer 1

They are placed in foster care.  Even babies that are immediately placed into the homes of the people who are adopting them are actually in a type of foster home.  Since they plan to adopt the child, they are not paid a monthly stipend for the child's care.  But, the child  has no legal parents at this point.  The adoptive parents-to-be have physical custody of the child, but the state still has legal custody since the natural parents have relinquished parental rights.  It is not until the adoption is finalized, which normally takes six months, that the child is no longer under state supervision.  At the point of finalization, the adoptive parents are now the legal parents; therefore, they now have both legal and physical custody.

Answer 2

File cabinets are perfect for that. Cuts down on the noise, and you can label each cabinet by child's name, age, and race.

Answer 3

Hi Mary,

Thanks for asking.  I'm sure other people must be wondering how that works too.

Social workers are not the people who actually take care of the children before they go live with their adoptive families.  In fact, the children do not even go to the government buildings or to the adoption agencies, that's where the paperwork is done.  The social workers have already approved what they call foster homes for the children to live, and the children are taken there.  Sometimes the children are moved around to several different foster homes before a permanent home is found.

Foster care is full-time substitute care of children outside their own home by people other than their biological or adoptive parents or legal guardians.  It is a state program that is meant to provide temporary care.  Foster parents are licensed and paid to provide care for children in need.  Some foster children are eventually returned to the custody of their natural families.  It is rare for infants to become available for adoption through foster care.

Please understand that there is a difference in the types of adoptions.  First, there are needy children in state foster care who are legally free for adoption and just waiting for an adoptive family to adopt them.  Adoption is meant to serve the needs of these children who truly need homes.  

Then there are infant adoptions run by adoption agencies, which are profit-based businesses.  They often solicit young, unmarried, pregnant women in order to recruit babies for their clients who are the prospective adoptive parents.  (Approx 99% of those women who give birth prefer to parent their own children.)  The adoption agencies earn fees based upon the number of babies placed, the types of babies placed, (yes, race & age factor in there) and the adoptive parents pay for all background checks, legal fees, plus hefty profits.  Most prospective adoptive parents insist upon healthy, white newborns so they skip over all those children waiting in foster care, put their names on agencies' waiting lists, and sometimes wait years to get what they perceive to be a more desirable child.  Sometimes those babies go directly from the hospital to an adoptive home.  Sometimes not.

To sum it up - Adoption in the U.S. is done through either state foster care, or through private adoption agencies.  Adopting through foster care is the better choice for the children.  

Hope this information is helpful.

julie j

reunited adult adoptee

(and former foster child)

Answer 4

I was in a foster home for three months while the agency made me their emergency ward and terminated my mother's revocation period behind her back.

Yep, foster care was great!  They drugged me when I cried.  Lots of fun.

Answer 5

they put them in foster homes for little children

Answer 6

an adoption agency only adopts out kids, if people go through you, liek say an expentant mother, there are typiclly peopel who want kids, but some may come from foster care and they wont go throught the agency till t heir adopted out

Answer 7

Foster homes and orphanages (now called group homes).

Answer 8

foster homes.

Answer 9

When babies are born and the parents cannot keep him/her, they put them in a foster home until they can find someone to adopt the child. Hopefully, the foster parent(s) decide they would like to adopt the baby and do. The child will stay in that one  foster home until they can be adopted or until the foster family doesn't want them anymore and they must go to a new foster family. After the child turns 18, they are able to leave the foster care system and move on with there lives since they are adults and the foster parents no longer have to care for them.

I think this is fair because orphanages aren't places for babies and foster homes are much better. However not every baby is lucky enough to be placed in the foster care system.

Answer 10

Just an additonal bit of info to answer your question. Adoption agencies often have their own foster parents to care for children prior to placement with the adoptive parents.

Answer 11

foster homes

Answer 12

I was put in a foster home for the month between my being released from the hosital and going to my adoptive family.  I think relinquished but non-adopted kids still go into foster care.

Answer 13

99% of babies are placed directly from the hospital after being born.  Others, icnluding older babies or children, are being taken care of by the agency's foster families, or group home if an older child.  There are no orphanages in the U. S. since 1970.  But they are still utlized outside the U. S. heavily in some countries.

Answer 14

i was locked in a safe for 5 months!.

Really i thought that would be obvious lol

in a foster home!!!

Answer 15

i was adopted when i was 11 days old and i was in a foster home for 10 days so they stay in a foster home.