Hello everyone!
My husband and I are considering adopting an older child (Aged 10-15) in the United States. We’ve already been in contact with our adoption service and have been informed of quite a few older children/teens in foster care. We already have three children – ages 15, 14, and 2. However, I have heard from several friends (with adopted children) that the adoption system for older children here isn’t very good. Its hard to find older children outside of the states that aren’t special needs, so we were really hoping to go through with an adoption here. Granted, we aren’t against adopting a younger child but with our youngest being special needs we thought it would be easier to have a more independent child rather than an infant or toddler. Does anyone have any experience/ advice regarding this system?