This isn't completely true, if you adopt through foster care you continue to get adoption support payments from the state, so whether to foster or adopt usually isn't a financial decision
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
It is true that adoption through foster care has a lot more variables than private adoption and it's much more common for the process to get interrupted because the bio parents come back into the picture etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect
oh huh. I thought it worked like, you buy INTO an adoption and buy OUT for fostering
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
You get paid to foster, yes, if that's what you mean But once the kid's bio parents get TPRed the state starts looking for someone to become their new parents pretty aggressively
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Adoption support payments are lower than foster support payments by a fair margin, I think it's like 75% of the original payment But to foster at all you have to prove you're not financially dependent on the payments in the first place so hopefully that's not a big issue
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And as long as you're a foster parent and not an actual parent you have to run everything you do by the state. Most inconveniently you can't delegate custody to anyone else without their permission (you have to do paperwork even to get a babysitter as "respite care")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
So if the foster parent chooses not to adopt (after getting first dibs) then yes it's reasonable to assume there's some kind of issue that means they actively don't want to Which is unfortunate, because those kids carry that stigma into any other adoption conversation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I mean you could call it "financial issues" in a certain sense of the word, like it's a sibling group of five or something and the foster parents just don't want that many kids (especially having to pay for college for all five)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Anyway, re: the topic at hand, it is sadly still relevant A lot of foster-to-adopt cases are still contracted out by the state to private agencies which are often affiliated with religious institutions, because the workload is so high
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And so even though the system itself is not supposed to discriminate you still get a lot of soft discrimination, where if you're a traditional cishet couple of the kind churches like you'll have a much easier time finding an agency to help you work the system
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A policy change like the one proposed here would just take a queerphobic pattern and make it explicit policy
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