Adoption Readiness Assessment

Friday, January 22, 2010

No, we did not get the night off. We got the "Adoption Readiness Assessment" last night, that means we get to answer 19 more questions! These questions included:

• Infertility
• Relationship Issues (e.g. "Do you and your spouse feel the same way about your desire to adopt a child? Briefly support your answer.")
• General Adoption Questions (e.g. "Describe your concept of the “ideal” adoption experience?")
• Adoption Disruptions (e.g. "What possible factors do you foresee that would cause you to “disrupt” and adoptive placement after you had legally finalized the adoption and Covenant Kids was no longer involved with your family?")
• Special Needs Adoptions (e.g. "How do your friends and family feel about your desire to adopt a “special needs child?”)
• Open Adoption (e.g. To what degree are you willing to provide an “Open Adoption?”
• Adoption Cover Story (what we say to people who ask us about our foster care children or adopted children)
• Transracial Adoptions (e.g. "How will your adoptive child learn about his or her own racial or ethnic heritage, history, and customs?")

It really takes quite a while to answer these. On everything we fill out, Melinda and I work independently (and not group think). Our answers are quite different. When we hit questions about general discipline and how we would handle particular problems, we DID work together since as a team we would be enforcing discipline in the same way.

We really wanted these done on Friday since anything we turn in by Saturday (or more specifically Monday morning) gets worked on that week. We know that the sooner all our paperwork is in, the sooner we can get the home study done!