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The first step is to find someone to help you. Contact an adoption professional like Lifetime Adoption Center to help. 1-800-923-6784

www.LifetimeAdoption.com

You can also find help at the National Adoption Answer Line

www.NationalAdoptionAnswerLine.com

Good luck to you!

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12y ago

If you are mistreated or abandoned you have to report to the police or social worker. To get adopted as a teen is very difficult unless you know someone, a relative or someone else and then foster home is usually the start. Foster homes are more common. If it works the discussion about adoption can come up. The social worker has as a job to sort out the living situations and remove you from biological family if necessary. They can help with a adoption agency etc. Adoption is final and you don't have contact with the biological family again unless the adoptive parents allow you to. Finally a judge decides if they can adopt you or not after listening to the social worker.

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10y ago

It depends on what type of adoption you are looking to pursue: foster care, domestic or International Adoption. All types of adoption require a home study, so that is one of the first steps that you will need to complete.

You will also want to pick a reputable agency to work with. Stay away from "pilot" programs and be sure to ask how many adoptions the agency has completed.

This website can provide you with the processes of various countries in international adoption: http://adoption.state.gov/adoption_process.php

We adopted our little boy from the Congo about nine months ago and he has been such a joy to us! You can read our adoption story at http://africatoamerica.org/our-adoption-story/

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15y ago

I think this depends on the state you reside in. Generally you need to be 18 and be able to care for a child, and the general baby stuff. Check with local adoption agencies and they will tell you what you need and give you a packet about adoption and what to expect.

You need to be prepared (if you are adopting an older child) for the child to take a while to attach to you. -------edit------- also, the older they are, generally the more problems they come with. a caseworker will probably come to your house and see whether the house meets the requirments (windows a certain size, railings on all stairwells, nothing blocking the exits and such. You will be interveiwed to see whether you will make a good parent, and are stable with income and such... generally they want 25+ year-olds, unless you're adopting kin... then you can be 18 (as a general rule).

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13y ago

You would essentially be abandoning your child. The state is not going to turn your child away, however, you could have criminal charges for child abandonment filed against you. The state will likely also order you to pay child support unless the child is able to be adopted.

The exception is that some states have a baby Moses law that allows a parent to leave a very young infant in a safe location without legal repercussions.

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14y ago

Looking up all that you can when you are ready to adopt a child.

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15y ago

they would have to signall parental right over to you and you will need to get a lawyer to do set this up and do it for you, but it depends on your situation and the state your in to.

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15y ago

You can go online and look at parent profiles or look up adoption attorneys in your state or the state you wish your child to be adopted in.

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12y ago

you have to go in court and change your child's last name

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