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Originally Posted by My kids are cool
Just got an email from my brother in law. They have been trying to adopt for the last three and a half years. They have finally been chosen by a birth mom, and she is in the hospital now, in labor. I'm so excited for them. Birth mom has three days after the baby is born to change her mind, but the birth mom's really young and her mother said that she (the birth mom's mom) will not help her with child. I am sad for the girl giving birth, but happy for the baby and my bro and sis in law because they are SPECTACULAR parents. They have one child and are the best parents I have ever seen.
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What an interesting system! Forgive me for being knowledge-seeker Mastodon, but I really want to know: I take it that a woman who is pregnant and doesn't want to keep her child can give it up for adoption within the country - but how are the adoptive parents chosen? Can people adopt over state borders, or is it just within the state? Are there agencies (I assume there are, it must make the process much safer and less haphazard)? Do adoptive parents have to pay anything? Apologies if that last is a rude question.
The only way Swedish people can adopt is from abroad - it's not possible for a woman to voluntarily give her baby up for adoption as far as I know. In families where the children are obviously maltreated, they are put in foster homes, but that's not considered a permanent solution, the children are supposed to return to their parents as soon as possible. As far as I know, again. It's rather a barbaric system if you ask me. Better to let people who want children get the chance to raise a kid with love, rather than forcing it on biological parents who are unsuitable and unwilling to be real parents.
Well, there is also family adoption, where a partner adopts their partner's biological kid(s) to make questions of inheritance less complex.
Oh, and I should have said - yay for your BIL!