While it is true that most of the info collected on a child put up for adoption is documented on the child's adoption records and these are typical of most states, which means an inclusion of comprehensive medical and genetic background details besides social, mental health, religious, ethnic and educational records, some states may require even more in-depth information.
This includes more detailed family history and racial origin details as well as dental history, vaccination and developmental health records and the mandatory academic progress records. At times, adoption records may also contain eligibility information or exclusivity outlines that indicate the states where the child can be adopted with federal adoption support, such as extended to citizens of the States of Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Texas, Vermont, Oklahoma and Rhode Island.
Apart from birth parent's history and background details, a home study also serves the purpose of enabling the adoption agency or state department with the opportunity to gather info on medical history, socio-economic background, the family's mental health history, spiritual inclinations and to what extent the child's parents are educated; all these details help determine a child's future and are included in the adoptive records.
Still other states ask for more detailed adoptive records that include description of parent's looks, skills, hobbies, career and medication that the birth mother may have been taking at the time of her pregnancy; other states exist that provide adoptive parents further identifying info about the birth parents and the child's background such as name and address (Colorado, New York and American Samoa are some examples.)
Adoptive records help prospective parents determine what kind of a family background they are willing to adopt a child from and also where vice versa i.e. help the birth parents and state/adoption agency ascertain whether the adoptive family's atmosphere and background will be suitable to the child concerned.
Thus, the home study also includes aspects of a couple's life that may affect the adoption of a child, such as a criminal background, instance of child abuse or history of the prospective parent's health, emotional maturity and stability of finances besides the social aspects.
Among the hardest states to adopt from, Montana is surely the one that tops the list, for they ask for occupational, drug or alcohol abuse and domestic violence history besides the racial- ethnic background details of the adoptive parents and some of these categories of information also need to be filled up by the states of New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, Arizona, Illinois, Vermont, Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, for their adoption records.
After the final documentation for the adoption records as required by these demanding states has been filed properly and is found to be in order, they are duly signed by the judge and depending on the type of adoption procedure the couple concerned have opted for, these are sealed and kept confidential or left open to the public. In the case of an adoption record that is kept confidential, it is kept this way till such time as the adopted child becomes an adult.
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