11 Steps to Legal Adoption Who may adopt?

Any person who has passed a thorough home study process to determine his/her sui tability for adoptive parenthood married couples, single, unmarried persons; Filip ino citizens and foreign nationals who have lived in the Philippines for at leas t three years immediately prior to application. 1. Submit a written application with a child placement agency licensed by the De partment of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Preferences in age and gender can be indicated. 2. The agency assigns a social worker to conduct a home study consisting of a. series of interviews b. home visits c. orientation forum with referrals to support groups of the Adoptive Families F oundation (c/o Kaisahang Buhay Foundation, tel. 9121159; 4211223, Email: affphil @yahoo.com) 3. The child eligible for adoption must be declared legally abandoned by the cou rt if, after publication in the newspaper and after three to six months, no one has claimed the child or if he/she had been surrendered by the mother for adopti on with written consent. 4. Matching stage. Factors considered: prospective parents who can meet the need s of the child; age and gender preferences; physical features 5. The DSWD grants Pre-Adoptive Placement Authority to bring the child home for a six-month trial period, which consists of: a. regular home visits by social worker b. participation in support group activities 6. Get a lawyer to file a petition to adopt in court 7. Publish a notice of your petition in a local newspaper, once a week for three consecutive weeks 8. Court hearing: parent petitioners and social worker 9. Court issues adoption decree 10. Go to local civil registrar and apply for an amended birth certificate -- ne w surname for the child and one that identifies you as parents 11. Post-legal adoption counseling 5 advantages and disadvantages of Adopting a child ? Advantages: 1.) It becomes ur child the day u adopt. 2.) Your responsible as a parent to this child and all that u'd do for ur own fl esh and blood kid applies to this adopted kid too, it no different, theres blood , flesh and a heart in this kid too albeit only fathered and mothered by some st ranger still a human being none the less. 3.) The child will call u father/ mother or watever u teach it to call but in th e end the child will always look upto u for support, love, comfort and security. 4.) U and ur partner are mother and father to this child u adopt and thus ur abi

ding by the bonds of love, u form a whole new responsible relationship. 5.) As parents to this child u'll be growing up a future so bright and help save a kid from getting lost in misery of orphanages, lack of food , security, love deprived due to desertion from it's biological parents. U will be his/her world and as a child no matter wat u will always be loved by the kids. 6.) U will contribute ur responsibility towards this world by adopting a parentl ess child and helping the child grow to someone in future with right education, u will be shaping up a childs life and in return u'll be paid back with love and satisfaction only a true parent will understand. A bond forms which is so preci ous that u will never even think of the child as adopted. Disadvantages: 1.) a strong chance by a coincidence the biological parents come in contact with this child and plan to take him /her away. 2.) If u adopted a kid from ur siblings or close family members a strong possibi lity of them realising maternal/paternal instincts. 3.) The child growing up with some genetic disease but which can be taken into s tride as u'd treat ur own blood kid. 4.) The kid after knowing that he/she was adopted decides to desert u at a later stage and goes in search of it's biological parents Coz being responsible u sh ud truly tell ur kid that he/she was adopted so that they realise u r really lov ing them as ur own kid and not some orphan. 5.) Oh the last will be the pain if the kids turn out to be monsters lol

Adoption Home PageSocial ScienceAdoption Adopting a child is an experience that promises to bring great joy as it changes a couple or individual's life forever. But what happens if the mother of that c hild wants to endorse their child? Those are the issues that many adopting paren ts and birth-right mothers are facing today. Many biological mothers want their child back. There are many concerns for adopting parents to know- that there is the possibly that the birth mother may file for the child. As a birth mother or the adopting parent one must realize consequences that could lay ahead. The legal and social transfer of all parental right, responsibilities, and roles from one parent or parents, usually biological, to a nonbiological parent or pa rents is the definition of adoption. In such a transfer, adoptive parents accept the same rights and responsibilities as the child's birth parents would have ha d, while the child becomes a member of a family that provides the social, emotio nal, and physical nurturing that children needs