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What is the easiest way to adopt a toddler?
Why not adopt an infant?
There is an insane waiting list to adopt a newborn in most countries. It can take years
to get an American born infant or even a baby from some other countries.
The easiest way to adopt a toddler is to become a foster parent open to taking in infants.
How does that help me adopt a toddler?
You’ll receive babies who were abandoned or who were taken from neglectful or addictive
mothers. After the child has been in foster care for a year or two, the parents’ rights
are terminated and you could adopt the infant.
Then we avoid the stresses of transitioning, taking a baby from the home he knows into
our home.
And there are no fees when you adopt from foster care. And if you take in the child
and he or she has too many problems, you can request that the child be moved to another
home.
Playing hot potato with a toddler is not something I want to do.
Better to find a good home when he’s little than wait until he’s older. But when you
adopt a toddler, you have to get intervention for whatever led them to be up for adoption
like neglect or abuse.
You make it sound like a celebrity rehab show with diapers.
And if you are adopting from abroad, you’ll have the terrible twos with a kid who doesn’t
understand English.
As if toddlers weren’t already incomprehensible.
And if you’re adopting from countries like the Congo and Guatemala, there is just plain
culture gap. Try teaching finger foods and the kid has no idea what you’re offering,
much less what to do with a sippy cup.
If I got a toddler from Guatemala, she’d understand “no”.
And that’s all you’d understand of her unless you learned Spanish.
So become a foster parent to get a baby or toddler for free, or learn a foreign culture
to get a toddler. Either way, it’s going to be hard.
Just think, you could skip the diapers and go straight to toilet training!