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Jun. 7th, 2019 09:54 amSo my older sister and her husband have been going through the adoption process for something like a year or more already, with various hurdles to overcome and setbacks along the way
They received the go-ahead yesterday to move forward with the matching process for a sibling group of a little girl and boy, aged two and one!
Of course, nothing is ever quite as simple as it seems, so at the same time they were given this news, they also learned that although they still have several weeks worth of red tape ahead of them before they can begin the introduction-and-moving-in process, the children’s current foster carer (who has had them since the little boy was born) needs them to be removed from her care within a week, due to a crisis in her own family
But wouldn’t it be terribly unsettling for the children to be placed with a second temporary carer, before being transplanted again within a matter of weeks to their forever home? Why yes. Wouldn’t it be simpler to instead speed up the whole process and allow D&R to take them immediately, as a foster placement, for which they are fully trained, while the adoption process grinds along? Well, you would think so. Will this actually happen? Your guess is as good as mine. There are three separate social workers in the mix, all of whom have different opinions on the best course of action, some of them based on the best interests of the children and others based on the strictest possible interpretation of the rules, regardless of the needs of the children.
But whether this week, next week, or two months from now, it is almost certain that this little girl and boy will become my new niece and nephew! I can’t wait to meet them!
They received the go-ahead yesterday to move forward with the matching process for a sibling group of a little girl and boy, aged two and one!
Of course, nothing is ever quite as simple as it seems, so at the same time they were given this news, they also learned that although they still have several weeks worth of red tape ahead of them before they can begin the introduction-and-moving-in process, the children’s current foster carer (who has had them since the little boy was born) needs them to be removed from her care within a week, due to a crisis in her own family
But wouldn’t it be terribly unsettling for the children to be placed with a second temporary carer, before being transplanted again within a matter of weeks to their forever home? Why yes. Wouldn’t it be simpler to instead speed up the whole process and allow D&R to take them immediately, as a foster placement, for which they are fully trained, while the adoption process grinds along? Well, you would think so. Will this actually happen? Your guess is as good as mine. There are three separate social workers in the mix, all of whom have different opinions on the best course of action, some of them based on the best interests of the children and others based on the strictest possible interpretation of the rules, regardless of the needs of the children.
But whether this week, next week, or two months from now, it is almost certain that this little girl and boy will become my new niece and nephew! I can’t wait to meet them!
