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❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Loved hearing your story

That is so wonderful Amy stayed in touch with both the boy and his mother .

I have a story about fostering I would love to share . Although I was not the foster parent I had a small part in seeing fostering and adoption bloom for a little boy . Sound interested lmk .

🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Prayers for all of you . I really enjoyed hearing your story .

What a beautiful testimony! Thank you so much for sharing! I love hearing their hearts in all this! I hope Amy and Rob will have many positive experiences to come!

All of the selfless, good hearted, and goodwill help being provided by all of you into making this world a better place is so admirable and inspiring. 💚

I'm adopted 2

Great interview!! Rob and Amy and their kids are amazing humans!! Together, they are model foster parents who reflect Christ daily! My family and I are blessed to have them as friends! You're my boy, Rob!

Comment below, questions you have for future interviews with foster and adoptive families 👇

Oh, how lovely ! Be so happy. You are blessed 😘

@maryshellsmith6627 You are entitled to believe whatever you choose. You clearly have no desire to even respect what anyone else believes

@christinaconkle4987 That would require the adoptee to tell their story. How can they do things from the child's perspective? Do you but realize these are young children?

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Glad for them

Can you tell me what the experience is like for adopting with grown or mostly grown children of your own

Excellent video thank youvfor taking time out to do it.

Keep in mind everyone, your state will be different, here in New Mexico it is way more relaxed there is a growing need for foster parents majorly!

I don’t understand why CPS doesn’t take the children with lice to the lice clinic first to get them removed! Oh my goodness

Definitely will try the chart of morning and bedtime routine . Thank you for the tips

Hi, foster to adopt mother here ❤👋 Have you ever had a birth Familie member/parent follow you after you pickied up the child from the visit?

Like, If you have a pool, what type of license do you have to pass? Thanks for sharing.

I do agree with everything that you're saying for fostering the foster children or child just saying that now

Can you even choose who to accept? What if you can't handle the trauma if you are simply not able to navigate? I am a bit shocked you are given just some random situation...

I'm 36 years old and I've lived in Alabama all my life. My husband and I have been married for 17 years, and we do not have any children of our own. Now, I have been interested in learning about what options were available and more affordable in becoming a foster parent that would like to adopt a child in waiting. Now I know some families don't luck up as fast in finding a newborn baby, but their has been some foster parents for a child in waiting that was able to foster a child as young as 16 months old and then later adopted that child. I wonder if the foster care will be honest with us and tell us the reasons of why this child is in waiting. Does this child have any physical or learning disabilities. Or are they perfectly healthy and just in need of a safe and loving home. And when a child is in waiting, does that mean that the adoption is closed and there will be no conrinued contact of the biological parents with the foster parent who might asopt the child later on? Cause I know some adoption cases are open and the foster mother keeps in contact with the bio mother. But I do worry about how to provide a home for a child that meets all needs required. For one, my husband and I are planning to move into a 60 year old house once we finish restoring and repairing everything and remodeling. This small white house has a new tin roof on it. But we are going to have new floors put in and new windows and I'm going to have new kitchen cabinets put in. There is only a living room, dining room, the kitchen, I want to find a space in the house to have a walk in pantry built. And possibly one with a lock so I can keep cleaning supplies in a basket together away from children that cannot have any access to it. I'm not really sure what most foster do in order to protect their children from cleaning supplies in the house. There is only 2 bedrooms in this house. The master bedroom and then the 2nd bedroom is just next roo ot and it's a pretty large bedroom. I imagine 2 children could share the room either with a double bed or 2 twin beds if they are the same gender. But old houses didn't always have a closet. And this 2nd bedroom does not have a closet. I was going to have one made though. But I'm not sure how long and deep the closest should be if it's ok for 2 children to share closest space. You mentioned something about led in paint. Well, there is not telling I this house would pass that test or not. It's 60 years old. And so before I go and repaint both the inside and outside of the house? Who do I call to coke check the house to make sure there is no evidence of led. And if there is, how can I remove it. Now another issues for safety you spoke of if clean tap water that is safe to drink. Well, it's been issued that we the residence in our city is not suppose to drink the water in our tap. Not even bpiling the water will make it safe to drink. But I do use the water to shower and to wash dishes and clothes. So that is why I and my neighbors stock up on gallons of water plus bottles of water for drinking. We are always in supply of good water to drink. But not from the tap water. And I'd hate to think that something like led in paint or my tap water could keep me from becoming a foster parent. I cannot fix the problem with our water system. But I do stock up on clean drinking water. So will a social worker and foster care accept that? I mean all of my friends who are my neighbors who have kids of all ages do just fine but don't drink the tap water. Only frank water that they stock up. So if it works for them, and for us, can't we do the same? Now I've heard that you have better chances of getting picked to be a foster parentfor a child in waiting that you may choose to adopt 6 months later if 1 parent is a stay at home parent that watches over and takes care of the child at home while the other spouse works. I don't mind being a stay at home mother. But as the child gets older and in school, I might want to work part time or even do a stay at home job of some kind if possible. But I want to know what type of parents are most likely chosen. And what questions foes a social worker ask you about your past and how you were raised and yoir marriage? What specifically do they want to know? And I heard that the government will provide for the foster child's medical bills until they are 18 or sometimes even 21 years old. That they may provide an additional check that isn't much, but is some means to help provide for all of the childs needs for nutritional food, and clothes, shoes, school supplies etc. And I heard some foster children can go to college for free. Now I don't know if it's possible for them to do that I Alabama, but it would be great for the child if they did do that. I don't know if they pay for tuition and books and everything though. I'm also not sure if they wish for the foster parents ro write down every little thing they use that money to spend on in providing for your child's monthly needs. I know it's probably not going to be enough without investing more money into providing for the child, but I just want to have a better understanding of what financial and mecical support we can expect to help us provide for a child in waiting in hopes of adopting. And how long would we more in likely wait if we wanted a baby as young as possible or atleast 1 years old? So how would you suggest for me to fix up this 60 year old house we are restoring and transforming. Who should I call to inspect it to make sure it passes safety standards for a foster care or adoption agency.so that way while I'm at the beginning stages of stuff, I can do what is needed to fix this house in the way it needs to be to pass safety rules. And also, how can my husband and I prepare ourselves and our marriage for the major change that is parenthood in the future? And how can we best learn how to properly raise a foster child d and how to reward good behavior and give unpleasant consequences for bad behavior and do time outs, grounding or taking privileges away when they break the rules etc? Now one more safety concern I have is allowing a child to play outside the house. We have alot of land for them to run and play. But still, they could run towards the highway and there is no fence to stop them. Now, I will have a large portion of land that will be ours. Must I fence all over it? Cause that's ALOT of fence. Or is it possible to just have a certain portion of the yard fenced in so the kids can play maybe in the back yard instead? I just wantto make sure I understand all the rules. And we so not have a pool. But way off in the distance but in plain sight on somebody elses property, there is a pond. So is that an issue that will come up? I mean, it's not like I would ever have small kids outside not being watched by an adult. We would make sure they was in a safe area to play.

How about the adoption story for a child...what it is like for a child child?? How about the struggle...we are not cabbage patch kid dolls!

Can they appeal the adoption if it’s open? The visits are retraumatizing her and idk what to do. I don’t want them to appeal it and keep having visits but I also don’t want her to see them the rest of her life

Thank you!!

This is the first video of yours i’ve come across and I’m so excited because we live in Rhode Island and have just started the process for foster care/adoption ♥️

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I truly thank god for your videos ,because I’m going through this now and this really help me mentally,love your family ❤❤

In California you do need a dresser as well but the county did offer to provide one.

He is so adorable tysm for sharing your story

How do you have time to get childcare in place if you work?

I'm happy for you and for him. But my heart aches for the birth family. Only saying this because if the rules were different, if parents could have more access and time with their child, generally, maybe reunification would still be a possibility? Some reunifications might take more time? It makes me wonder if parents are even okay with adoption in the first place, even when they agree to it. Are they doing so because they feel that time is up? :( Sorry, I don't mean to be critical, I understand how touchy and hurtful this is.

I live behind a locked gate and EMS won't come up here, guess that puts us out?

Hello. Do you have to do a fence around an index above ground pool that is not permanent. We have a chain link fence then a deck with a gate. Ty

How can you say “God’s plan is always better than ours”? That is so incredibly false, and just outright ridiculous. What about the people who die young from cancer, automobile accidents or murder? What the about people who suffer from disease and illness? What about the people who are poor and homeless? Look around you! There is suffering all over the place! Is that all “God’s better plan” for those people? Do you believe that certain people deserve to have bad things happen to them? Life has NOTHING to do with “God ‘s plan”, because there is no such thing as “God”. The concept of God and religion is used simply to control people, so they believe they need to do “good things”; so they make it to the afterlife and don’t go to hell. I just don’t understand, and can’t get over how so many people around the world fall for the idea that there is some “God” in “heaven” who plans their lives. That’s just crazy! What if that new baby of yours gets sick and dies? I bet I know- you’d say it’s “God’s” plan” so that you would feel better about such a loss. Religion and God are a crutch people use to get through life, where crazy things happen, and there’s really no rhyme nor reason to any of it. It’s chance, luck, good fortune or bad fortune. Some babies are born into wealthy, decent families, and are likely to have good lives. Other babies are born into poverty stricken, drug addicted families in the ghetto, and are likely to have miserable lives. But I promise you, there is no “God” “up there” controlling everyone’s lives, and planning things for them, and it’s just ludicrous that people believe such nonsense.