{"id":18200,"date":"2022-03-18T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=18200"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:16:52","slug":"how-do-i-ethically-adopt-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/03\/18\/how-do-i-ethically-adopt-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I ethically adopt a child?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aw031822-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"394\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aw031822-1.jpg\" alt=\"How do I ethically adopt a child?\" class=\"wp-image-18199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aw031822-1.jpg 394w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aw031822-1-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>How do I ethically adopt a child?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can either work through a state agency (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.gov\/adopting-from-dcf)\">mass.gov\/adopting-from-dcf)<\/a> to adopt foster children locally, a US organization to adopt from within the US, or an international adoption agency. Research adoption agencies carefully. I recommend this NY Times guide: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/18\/parenting\/guides\/adopting-a-child.html.\">https:\/\/nyti.ms\/3CQSxLO<\/a>. The US Dept. of Health &amp; Human Services also provides comprehensive information: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/HHS-Adoption\">bit.ly\/HHS-Adoption<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can either work through a state agency (e.g. mass.gov\/adopting-from-dcf) to adopt foster children locally, a US organization to adopt from within the US, or an international adoption agency. Research adoption agencies carefully. I recommend this NY Times guide: https:\/\/nyti.ms\/3CQSxLO. The US Dept. of Health &amp; Human Services also provides comprehensive information: bit.ly\/HHS-Adoption<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18212,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions\/18212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}