What are the steps in Giving Up A Teen for Adoption?

[TeenAdvocate]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas

The teenager is 14 and has caused considerable trouble for the family. The family would like to give the child up for adoption. How does this process work?

 

[justalayman]

Is there somebody wanting to adopt the child? If not, you don't just give up the child. If the child is considered to be incorrigible, you may be able to seek the states assistance. Children in such situations sometimes end up in foster care.

As the parent, you would still be liable for supporting the child (financially) at least until the child is adopted by another.

 

[Perky]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas

The teenager is 14 and has caused considerable trouble for the family. The family would like to give the child up for adoption. How does this process work?

Are you saying that someone wants to adopt the child, or that the parents want to give up their parental rights?

How are you advocating for the teen?

IMO, the parents should check out the resources available here before doing anything:

DFPS - About Prevention and Early Intervention

 

[CourtClerk]

Are you saying that someone wants to adopt the child, or that the parents want to give up their parental rights?

How are you advocating for the teen?

IMO, the parents should check out the resources available here before doing anything:

DFPS - About Prevention and Early Intervention

Perky,
Where you been??????????

 

[TeenAdvocate]

I am just asking the question that was posed to me. I cannot take the child as much as I would like to. I really want to help steer this family into doing the right thing that is best for the child. They are strongly wanting to give her up for adoption.

 

[Perky]

I am just asking the question that was posed to me. I cannot take the child as much as I would like to. I really want to help steer this family into doing the right thing that is best for the child. They are strongly wanting to give her up for adoption.

I think you mean they just want to give her up. Period. I don't think there are very many people out there looking to adopt 14 year olds.

Please have them check the resources posted above. They can move on from there.

 

[Perky]

Perky,
Where you been??????????

MIA, I guess, CC. Inundated with work stuff and some classes I took.

 

[Zigner]

Poor kid...

 

[cyjeff]

I am just asking the question that was posed to me. I cannot take the child as much as I would like to. I really want to help steer this family into doing the right thing that is best for the child. They are strongly wanting to give her up for adoption.

That is such crap.

The family is not in the least bit interested in what is best for the child.

 

[stealth2]

They are strongly wanting to give her up for adoption.

Then they suck. Sorry. Being a parent is hard work. If they're not willing to do it? They suck.

 

[dannyt]

you suck

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas

The teenager is 14 and has caused considerable trouble for the family. The family would like to give the child up for adoption. How does this process work?

then this family is no kind of family.because their daughter is being a typical stubborn hardheaded teen ( and i speak from experiance) they want to give up on her? what the hell kind of parents are they anyway? they dont deserve to be parents. how do you think she feels knowing her parents no longer want her?

 

[wrongsometimes]

thats why god made woods. Just drive her out to the middle of one and say "good luck"? Or go buy a cage for the wild kid. Or move to the middle of the woods where she cannot bother anyone. Or make her watch any obama speech 1000 times over. Nobody is going to adopt a 14 yr old unless they are a relative where the parents died in a car crash or something. Its your kid, you deal with the pysco you raised. You reap what you sow. The apple dont fall far from the tree ... etc..

 

[Ohiogal]

thats why god made woods. Just drive her out to the middle of one and say "good luck"? Or go buy a cage for the wild kid. Or move to the middle of the woods where she cannot bother anyone. Or make her watch any obama speech 1000 times over. Nobody is going to adopt a 14 yr old unless they are a relative where the parents died in a car crash or something. Its your kid, you deal with the pysco you raised. You reap what you sow. The apple dont fall far from the tree ... etc..

Okay now you just shush.

OP, you are not a teen advocate. Have the parents go to juvenile court and state that they are neglecting the child's needs. They can be found to be neglectful and the child palced in state's custody. Any other siblings can also be removed due to the neglect of THIS child's issues. Then the couple can go on as though they never had children. if they do not work a caseplan the state will terminate their rights to all the children and the children can be given a chance at having a healthy life.

Or better yet they can parent the child and attempt to get the child help for the child's issues. What are the child's issues? Has the child been evaluated by a psychologist or psychiatrist? Have the parents engaged in parenting classes? Has there been family counseling?

If not then the parents are a disgrace and YOU need a new line of work as you are NOT advocating for the teen.

 

[cbg]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas

The teenager is 14 and has caused considerable trouble for the family. The family would like to give the child up for adoption. How does this process work?

It doesn't.

If the 14 year old is incorrigible, what makes them think another set of parents will be willing to take her? If the 14 year old is not incorrigible, then the bio parents have no legal grounds to throw away their kid.

There are state services available to help if the child is really that much trouble. Adoption is not one of them. Foster care, possibly; a change of guardianship, possibly. Adoption? Don't bet the rent on it, cupcake.

 

[lady sheriff]

I disagree...

thats why god made woods. Just drive her out to the middle of one and say "good luck"? Or go buy a cage for the wild kid. Or move to the middle of the woods where she cannot bother anyone. Or make her watch any obama speech 1000 times over. Nobody is going to adopt a 14 yr old unless they are a relative where the parents died in a car crash or something. Its your kid, you deal with the pysco you raised. You reap what you sow. The apple dont fall far from the tree ... etc..

I disagree, I am dealing with a serious problem with my teenager whom has proved to be dangerous at times and is a ticking time bomb and isn't from a "psycho" family. He has beaten his sister with a rod from a window blind all down her back and legs till she was bleeding, he has smacked her in the back with a baseball bat, a broom stick he has tried to choke her and had left hand marks on her neck and punched her in the face. He was arrested for domestic abuse. He was then put into a juvenile center then later put into a place called Pressley Ridge for 9 months to help him. He then has came home and is now starting to continue this behavior once again. And he knows that he has been put on probation for 6 months. The schools have problems with him. This kid has been in counseling since he has been in the first grade. The problem is he never has remorse for his actions. He doesn't care who he has hurt. I can understand with what this parent is wanting to do, I don't know what else to do to help my son. We have never beat him or has he ever been in a violent home. Family members have tried to help him, churches, doctors, teachers Etc. Probation officer is ready to revoke his probation because it is such a continuance at home and other places and don't know what else to do for him