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
ah man, I didn't know that, that's disappointing
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Yeah to be clear on the kid's side the kid's caseworker is a government employee and their file is with the government But on the foster parent's side, the state lets private agencies be your whole interface with the system
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Handling the training, orientation and most importantly making a file for you and doing the research to try match you up with the kids who would be the best fit for you, something the state's employees have minimal time to do themselves
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
It is obviously appropriate and correct that the state's energies be as "child-centered" as possible but the fact that so much of "foster parent services" gets outsourced leads to problematic biases and incentives
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Basically in many communities the old tradition of "the church finds homes for orphans from their most respected parishioners" is still how it works, just with extra bureaucratic steps It's why being queer and in the system is so hellish
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