The first major step in any adoption is the completion of a “home study” to determine if a family is ready and able to accept adoptive children. The home study is completed by a social worker and involves multiple interviews with all family members (both individually and as a group), background checks, completion of a personal biography for both parents, and a home visit.
Personally this is the one part of the process that I am most concerned with, even though I have been told that it is a lot less painful than it sounds. What if the social worker decides we wouldn’t be good parents? What does that mean for our poor bio kids? LOL :-) Seriously though, it is a bit stressful to have someone evaluating your family in this way.
We are currently in the process of doing the required background checks and hopefully we will move forward with the whole process soon after the holidays. Pray that we would have peace throughout the process, and will not be anxious about anything.
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