PARENTING OPTIONS
- Adoption - The method approved by law to establish the legal
relationships of parent and child who are not so related by birth.
- Legal Risk Adoption - A situation
in which the court recognizes that the agency has
made reasonable efforts to reunify the birth parent
and child but the birth parent has not made
sufficient progress for the child to return home.
The child is not legally free for adoption and is
placed with a family who intends to adopt the child
when termination of parental rights occurs.
This family must be licensed as a foster home.
- Foster Adopt - A situation in which
a child is being placed in foster care, and whose
family situation makes it seem unlikely that the
child will be reunited with them. Reunification
between parent and child could occur. The court
would not have sanctioned adoption as the plan at
this time. This child would be in the family's
preferred gender and age range and would be
placed in the home without any assurance of
permanence at the time of placement. If the child
became available for adoption, the family's
application for adoption would be given priority.
The family must be licensed as a foster home.
- Legally Clear Adoption - A situation
in which a family chooses to adopt a child who
is legally free.
- Foster Parenting - A family who
provides temporary care for a child and is committed
to working in partnership with the agency toward
the birth family's reunification until otherwise ordered
by the court.
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