| There are great differences between adoption and | | | | Before this option of adopting the child under the |
| foster care. However the people hoping to adopt | | | | foster care comes. The couple or single mother that |
| should know those significant differences and all that | | | | is providing the foster care might have made up their |
| is entail in adoption. In adoption the couple who have | | | | mind that this is exactly what they wanted and that |
| adopted will become responsible for every thing that | | | | they are ready to be there for the child, if finally |
| concerns the child until the child grows up, and when | | | | being adopted by the foster care provider, they |
| everything about adoption is completed, the child will | | | | cease from receiving financial support for providing |
| be given the last name of the couples. To provide | | | | the care to the child, The child therefore will be their |
| foster care to a child is not the same as adoption. | | | | responsibility from that moment. |
| Firstly the Childs last name will never be changed to | | | | When you are ready to move from being foster |
| the name of the person providing foster care to him | | | | parents to adoptive parents, you will be sure that |
| or her, also a social worker must be involved at all | | | | you have decided to make this type of commitment |
| times, to keep track of everything going on in the | | | | for the sake of the child that is involved and the |
| Childs life. It is also the social worker that will be | | | | whole family members. Although the road is not |
| providing information's that is needed about the child | | | | always easy, but the process can change the life of |
| in the foster care. | | | | everybody involved for good. This may be the point |
| When some one is providing foster care to a child, | | | | in life time where you realize how important your role |
| the child may stay very long in a foster care, but he | | | | as an adopted parent is and the effect it will have on |
| or she will not stay permanently there. There are | | | | the child who is depending on you. |
| times when the child will take from you when you | | | | From the time of going through being a foster care |
| are fully attached to the baby, and this may be very | | | | provider to being an adoptive parent of this child, a |
| disheartening to you. However there may be option | | | | lot could be learnt and this could be the opportunity |
| available for the child to be adopted at last. This may | | | | for you to know the difference about adoption |
| be a great opportunity to adopt that very child you | | | | compared to foster care, as this will help in making |
| have provided foster care for quite some time if you | | | | the final decision on whether to choose to adopt the |
| so desire. | | | | child under your foster care or not. |