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All You Need to Know About The Implications Kinship Adoption

All You Need to Know About The Implications Kinship Adoption

Kinship adoption, especially in the form of grandparent adoption, is actively sought out by public agencies. In terms of whether or not the adoption process changes when family get involved, especially when adoptions are processed without the use of an agency or without money changing hands, the process may be quicker and easier. 
As noted elsewhere, grandparent adoption is the most common form of kinship adoptions, and adopting grandparents may be given first choice to adopt as well as subsidies to help raise the child. Just the same, this does not exempt relatives from completing adoption procedures in full.
However, sometimes the motivation to adopt will be mitigated by financial considerations. When out-of-pocket expenses from the adoption process loom too large, especially in the case of application by a grandparent, adoption may be contingent on some form of assistance when a steady flow of income is unrealistic (i.e. after retirement or if the relative is already receiving Medicaid and other help). If the family member does not qualify for such aid, though, or a State does not offer public funds to kin, he or she may seek some other arrangement.
There are important implications for prospective adoptive relatives, but there are implications for birth parents as well. Going back to the goal of reuniting birth parents with their children, the desire of parents to regain primary custody of a child may wane if they are granted regular access to visit by the adoptive kin. This assumes that the adoption process is actually completed in full by kin. Grandparents and other relatives may be able to assume custody through legal guardianship or foster care. 

Understanding Kinship Adoption

Understanding Kinship Adoption

A sad fact of our society is that men and women have babies of whom they cannot take care. One possible solution to this dilemma is the birth mother or birth parents agreeing to a kinship adoption.           
Kinship adoption involves the placement of children with relatives of the birth parents. Depending on the preferences of the new adoptive parents, family adoptions may either undergo more involved preparation procedures involving parent training, financial support and license of the parents to adopt or more informal transfers of parental duty. Kinship adoption often works on the basis of preference in individual states. 
Within family adoption, there is often a hierarchy in place based on the nature of the familial relationship. Usually, family adoptions award first preference to grandparents, barring any physical, psychological, or mental impediments to them taking proper care of their relative child.         
Family adoption implies that adoptive relatives and children must be tied together by blood. In some jurisdictions, though, close family friends may be considered “family” of sorts for this purpose. Such individuals are known to the law as fictive kin. While they may not need to be biologically related to children to take care of them, they still may have to undergo a criminal background check to be certified as caretakers.
As noted, not all applications for family adoptions may be granted. In instances of some sort of infirmity that may hamper a relative (like a grandparent) in the day-to-day care of the child, kinship care would be ill-advised. In addition, family adoption would be less than appealing when children are dead-set against their adoption by a relative or said relative could be harmful to their well-being.