Older children face numerous obstacles while awaiting adoption, to include legal adoption by a relative, and should the adoption process be open or closed.
The road to adoption begins with a loss that affects members of the process. Adoptees are people who have been given up by their birth parents at birth or before the age of eighteen, children placed in foster care due to death of their parents or, those removed from unsafe environments (D’Amato, 2010, 54). Children typically stay in foster care for over three years prior to being adopted, and as each year goes by, the chances of their being adopted is lessened (Groh, 2012). Foster care is no longer obligated to care for the child once they turn eighteen. This means the young adult goes
The road to adoption begins with a loss that affects members of the process. Adoptees are people who have been given up by their birth parents at birth or before the age of eighteen, children placed in foster care due to death of their parents or, those removed from unsafe environments (D’Amato, 2010, 54). Children typically stay in foster care for over three years prior to being adopted, and as each year goes by, the chances of their being adopted is lessened (Groh, 2012). Foster care is no longer obligated to care for the child once they turn eighteen. This means the young adult goes