i dont get it
2007-04-22 02:23:29 · 6 answers · asked by unknown 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Because foster care is considered a temporary situation and the child is usually cared for by unrelated adults. If the foster parents adopt the child legally, the child can have his name changed their last name. Also, sometimes the goal is to put the child back in the home with his birth family, so that would just require another name change.
2007-04-22 02:32:49 · answer #1 · answered by Stimpy 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because foster kids are just that, foster kids; they are not adopted. To foster a child is a short-term solution while a biological parents get their act together (whether it be the abused or neglected the children, are on drugs and/or alcohol or have a physical trauma, like a car accident, or in Parisian).
In cases where the biological parent(s) is/are deceased and there are no biological relatives that come forward to take care of the children, they can be placed in the foster system permanently, but that does not mean it will be with the same family for the duration of their childhood. A fellow I went to college with had been in 5 foster homes as a child in this situation.
2007-04-22 02:36:27 · answer #2 · answered by bottleblondemama 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My adopted son would have had to have his name changed 5 times. That is how many foster homes he had stayed in before I adopted him.
He was also in state run "shelters" as well. They are kinda like halfway houses between foster care and adoption placements. Like a holding area after being returned to the state by foster parents.
Do not believe any state allows the child to have his/her named changed in foster care without a legal adoption.
At the adoption hearing with the court, my son was given the choice of also changing his first and middle name. And he did change both and of course took my last name.
2007-04-22 05:35:55 · answer #3 · answered by mackjcsf 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most foster kids are only in the temporary custody of the State. Their parents still have rights. Until a court strips the parents of their rights, no one else can adopt the child. Once a child is eligible for adoption, the foster parents have the opportunity to do that...but it's their choice. Whether they adopt they adopt the kids or not is up to them. If they choose not to (which often has a monetary motive behind it), then the child is still a foster child and there is no name to change to until there is an adoption.
2007-04-22 06:06:44 · answer #4 · answered by GenevievesMom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Foster parents don't "adopt", their children, they just become their wards.
If they do "adopt" these kids then they would have a name change, but that is only if the birth parents are dead, or had their rights taken away.
2007-04-22 02:33:17 · answer #5 · answered by phanti 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an "Adopted person" now age 48,..7 years ago I had my name legally changed in a court of law, I could have done this when I was "12" but I didnt know I could, When my adopted Mother died, it seemed like a perfect time to change my name for My sake and for Her's,....I took my Real Father's name "Simmons" (had to look him up and go meet him & he was old and grizzled....) And after I found My real Mom,.....I had Her give Me back mMy birth name "Nathan"....I took My adopted Mom's Maiden name as my middle name. "Brown"....It took some time but when I got to court, " the judge" was one of, "Janis Joplin's drummers" from the past........way cool and he of course said "yes".what else would he say?.Hed is an old Hippy like me but a few years my elder.
2007-04-22 09:24:15 · answer #6 · answered by theoregonartist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋