What are the main differences between fostering and adoption?
When you get your training, make sure you go for a foster/adopt license. Then, if the children are released for adoption, you will have priority in getting to adopt them. If all has gone well with the children in the home, you will be their adoptive family, and no one else, other than bio family or an adoptive home with a sibling, will be considered. If you are fostering, you may get called the day you are issued your license, or any time after that. For fostering, they don’t do as indepth a match as they do with adoption. I can’t imagine the age gap would make a difference, as long as you are both healthy and want to do this. Also, in foster/adoption, the parents don’t pick the adoptive family, the state does, and like I said, as long as nothing goes wrong, it will be the foster family. So whether you want an open adoption or not will not make a difference if you adopt your foster child. In fact, the state greatly advised me NOT to have an open adoption, but once it was final, I did o
