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