So you finished the major part of the adoption application, now on to the hard questions. There is a section in the application asking what type of child you are looking for. I know this sounds like this would be an easy section but honestly it is definitely one of the hardest.
The questions range from what age you are looking for, to will you accept a child with disabilities. You and your spouse should put aside some time and start thinking, praying and discussing what you are wanting.
Some of the questions you should think about:
Do you want a newborn? If not what is the oldest you will consider?
Will you accept more than one child? If so how many will you consider?
Will you accept a child who was conceived from rape or incest?
Will you accept a child whose biological parents had cancer, aids, diabetes?
Will you accept a child whose biological parents are in jail?
If you will accept a child with disabilities Would you accept a child who is blind?
Would you accept a child in a wheelchair?
Would you accept a child with Downs Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy?
Some of the conditions that they have listed you really will need to do some research on them. Search the web there is a lot of information out there to help you with your narrowing down the decision.
Then you get to the questions about race, ethnicity and gender. Would you like a boy or a girl, a child who is Caucasian, African American, Asian, or any combination of them? When we completed our application there were a lot of questions that we could not answer yes or no so we checked will consider. With the will consider answer the Social Worker doing your home study will review those questions and hopefully help you make the decision.
On our own application we said we wanted toddlers, either a boy or girl and no more than two kids. If you read my bio you know that we have three children. We also selected we would accept any race or ethnicity and we have two Caucasian children and one who is bi-racial Caucasian/African American. The great thing about our kids (other than the fact they are ours) is that we adopted three siblings.