Category: Adoption process

Fostering is temporary care with parental rights elsewhere. Adoption is permanent. Why many US states require adoptive applicants to be licensed to foster too.

Single people adopt from foster care in every US state and Canadian province. What agencies actually assess, and the one province with a marital status rule.

Home ownership is not a requirement anywhere we could verify. What is assessed is space and safety. What that means in practice.

US federal law sets a specific list of permanent and five-year bars. An old conviction outside those categories is not automatically disqualifying.