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