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There are great differences between adoption and foster care. However the people hoping to adopt should know those significant differences and all that is entail in adoption.

In adoption the couple who have adopted will become responsible for every thing that concerns the child until the child grows up, and when everything about adoption is completed, the child will be given the last name of the couples. To provide foster care to a child is not the same as adoption.

Firstly the Childs last name will never be changed to the name of the person providing foster care to him or her, also a social worker must be involved at all times, to keep track of everything going on in the Childs life. It is also the social worker that will be providing information's that is needed about the child in the foster care.

When some one is providing foster care to a child, the child may stay very long in a foster care, but he or she will not stay permanently there. There are times when the child will take from you when you are fully attached to the baby, and this may be very disheartening to you. However there may be option available for the child to be adopted at last. This may be a great opportunity to adopt that very child you have provided foster care for quite some time if you so desire.

Before this option of adopting the child under the foster care comes. The couple or single mother that is providing the foster care might have made up their mind that this is exactly what they wanted and that they are ready to be there for the child, if finally being adopted by the foster care provider, they cease from receiving financial support for providing the care to the child, The child therefore will be their responsibility from that moment.

When you are ready to move from being foster parents to adoptive parents, you will be sure that you have decided to make this type of commitment for the sake of the child that is involved and the whole family members.

Although the road is not always easy, but the process can change the life of everybody involved for good. This may be the point in life time where you realize how important your role as an adopted parent is and the effect it will have on the child who is depending on you.

From the time of going through being a foster care provider to being an adoptive parent of this child, a lot could be learnt and this could be the opportunity for you to know the difference about adoption compared to foster care, as this will help in making the final decision on whether to choose to adopt the child under your foster care or not.

By Uchegbu Ikenna
 

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