{"id":15579,"date":"2020-11-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.mom.com\/momlife\/what-to-know-if-youre-adopting-through-foster-care"},"modified":"2024-11-06T23:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T04:13:59","slug":"what-to-know-if-youre-adopting-through-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.com\/getting-pregnant\/what-to-know-if-youre-adopting-through-foster-care","title":{"rendered":"What to Know if You&#8217;re Adopting Through Foster Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>November is National Adoption Month. Started as Adoption Week, it began over 45 years ago as a way to shed light on the need for families to adopt children in the foster care system. In 1976, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis spearheaded the idea in hopes to connect children in need of forever families with foster parents who had it on their heart to grow their families through adoption.<\/p><p>Eight years later, Ronald Reagan officially proclaimed the week before the start of the holidays as official National Adoption Week; the holidays being a time when children are longing for a home and a sense of belonging. In 1995, President Bill Clinton expanded the week and proclaimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/cb\/faq\/adoption14\">November as National Adoption Month<\/a> to highlight the increasing need for matching children and youth in foster care with forever families.<\/p><p>One of the ways of growing your family is adopting through the foster care system. &ldquo;There are several different ways to get started in the adoption [sic] process. One of the ways is through the Department of Social Services (DSS). From time to time you&rsquo;re called on to be a foster parent, sometimes those foster parent situations turn into permanent situations, sometimes they don&rsquo;t,&rdquo; South Carolina family court lawyer Nancy Jo Thomason explained in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NnINSnOILgY\"> YouTube video<\/a>. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a lot of hard work; a lot of meaningful work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November is National Adoption Month. Started as Adoption Week, it began over 45 years ago as a way to shed light on the need for families to adopt children in the foster care system. 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