What is Adoption?
Adoption is the permanent, legal transfer of parental rights and responsibilities from a child’s birth parents to the adoptive parents. Adoption involves a life-long commitment to provide a child with a loving and stable home. Adoption gives the adopting relative all the authority and responsibility of a parent so that the relative can care for the child without the supervision of the court or social services.
Adopting Through the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)
Adopting a child from the child welfare system has unique aspects that require adoptive applicants with special characteristics. These don’t have to do with income, age, marital status or any other type of cut and dried requirement. A checklist does not measure the qualities that children need in a parent; these qualities show up in the everyday actions and words of committed and caring people.
Most of the children adopted through DCFS have suffered some form of abuse or neglect. In addition, they have had the difficult task of adjusting to new families, neighborhoods and schools while in foster care. Sometimes they have had to leave the place they called home at a moment’s notice. These experiences would be challenging enough for an adult; imagine how they feel to a child.
Children in the public child welfare system need caregivers that are patient and loving. They deserve people in their lives who will do whatever it takes to provide the nurturing, secure and stable environment all children desire to develop their full potential. Commitment to the relationship is essential, even when the child does not conform to the parents’ fantasy.
Adopting a court dependent child also means developing patience with a complex bureaucratic system. The Los Angeles County DCFS is the largest public child welfare agency in the country and it must follow federal and state government regulations as well as orders from the juvenile court. Sometimes the wheels of public child welfare appear to grind very slowly, but there is a lot at stake.
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Merced County Animal Shelter: Adoption fees for pet of the week are $35 for dogs and $15 for cats. If an animal is adopted before the newspaper comes out Saturday, another animal can be chosen in its place. For more information, call (209) 385-7436.
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I would never put my child up for adoption nomatter what the situation is .
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