How to Adopt in 2023
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
01/11/23
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Are you thinking about adopting this year? You don't want to miss this discussion of how to adopt and current trends in private infant adoption, foster care adoption, and international adoption. Our guests are Chris Peszka, MSW, Regional and District Supervisor at Adoptions From The Heart Adoption Agency, and Robin Sizemore, Executive Director of Hopscotch Adoptions.
In this episode, we cover:
- Domestic infant private adoption in the US
- What is the process?
- What are the reasons that pregnant moms are placing their child?
- Open adoption
- Expectant parent choice
- Special needs of children available
- How long does it take? What factors influence this time?
- How much does it cost? What factors influence this cost?
- Adoption agency and adoption attorney
- What is the first step prospective adoptive parents should take if they are interested in adopting a baby?
- Adoptions from foster care in the US
- What is the process?
- Adopting your foster child
- Adopting a waiting child
- What are the reasons that children are available for adoption from foster care in the US?
- What age and race of child is available for adoption from foster care?
- Special needs?
- How long does it take?
- How much does it cost?
- What is the first step prospective adoptive parents should take if they are interested in adopting from foster care?
- International adoptions to the US
- What is the process?
- What type of children are available for adoption from abroad?
- How long does it take? What factors influence this time?
- How much does it cost? What factors influence this cost?
- What is the first step prospective adoptive parents should take if they are interested in adopting internationally?
- What are some of the shifts in adoption in the last 5 or so years?
- What are some of the changes anticipated for 2023 and beyond?
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This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
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Making Peace with Living Child Free
January 4, 2023
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How do you know when enough is enough? What do you do when infertility treatment and adoption don't end up with you having a child. Join us to talk with Rebecca and Sallyann Majoya, co-authors of the memoir Uncertain Fruit, and Carole LieberWilkins, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist providing individual and couples counseling, as well as psychoeducational consultations, for those moving into alternative paths to parenthood and living child-free.
In this episode, we cover:
- Deciding to live child-free is becoming increasingly common in the US. Research has found that 30 percent of women of childbearing age identifying wanting to live child-free. However, that is not reflective of the people we are speaking to who have likely tried infertility treatment or adoption and it hasn’t worked for them.
- What is the right name: childfree or childless? Are you childfree by choice or childfree not by choice?
- Age is less of a biological cut off point than in the past and that complicates the decision of whether to stop trying to have a child.
- How do people know when it is time to stop trying? What are the signs that it is time to stop. How do you know when enough is enough?
- Is making the decision to live childfree ‘giving up’?
- Are there predictable steps for reaching the decision of when it is time to stop fertility treatment or adoption?
- Determining when you should stop.
- How to decide to stop?
- ‘Trying on’ the future
- Seeking new goal/vision
- Therapy
- How can “giving up the dream” of children impact a couple’s relationship?
- How to handle when both partners are not on the same page.
- Once you’ve made the decision, should you take steps to not get pregnant? The “not-try-but-not-prevent” approach.
- For many, the decision to live child free not by choice causes grief, but this loss is invisible. It’s hard for others to see or understand, so we mourn without the support of our community.
- What can people do to help themselves resolve the grief of not having kids?
- Writing a letter to the child you will never know.
- Giving this dream child a “funeral.” Doing something with the letter that is akin to a funeral. Concrete reminders that the person is gone.
- Create a ritual to say goodbye.
- Writing a memoir.
- Create a new life goal. A new vision for your future.
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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2022 Adoption Tax Credit
January 18, 2023
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Are you planning on claiming the Adoption Tax Credit when you file your taxes this year? If so, this is the podcast for you! We talk with two of the top experts in the US on the Adoption Tax Credit: Becky Wilmoth, an Enrolled Agent and Adoption Tax Credit Specialist with Bill’s Tax Service, and Josh Kroll, the Adoption Subsidy Resource Center coordinator at the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC).
In this episode, we cover:
- What is the Adoption Tax Credit for adoption being claimed on 2022 federal taxes?
- How to advocate for refundability?
- What is a “credit” and how does it differ from a deduction or some other form of tax savings?
- If you get a tax refund every year, how would you use the Adoption Tax Credit?
- If you don’t have any federal tax liability, should you still apply the credit to your federal income taxes?
- What types of adoptions are included or excluded? Stepparent adoption? Embryo adoption? Same-sex partner second-parent adoption? Unmarried heterosexual second-parent adoption? Surrogacy?
- Can you get credit for each adoption you complete even if completed in the same year? What about adopting siblings at the same time?
- What is a Qualified Adoption Expense for purposes of the Adoption Tax Credit 2022?
- When can you claim the Adoption Tax Credit?
- Domestic private adoption
- International Adoption
- Re-adoption in the US for international adoption
- Foster Care Adoption
- How does the Adoption Tax Credit work with kinship adoptions? What if the child never was involved with foster care?
- Special Needs Adoption: How does the Adoption Tax Credit differ for adoptions from foster care? What does the IRS accept as proof of “special needs”?
- $0 subsidy agreement
- Special needs child for international adoption
- Can you reclaim your expenses for an attempted adoption that did not result in a placement? How?
- What income level (Modified Adjusted Gross Income) is excluded from claiming the Adoption Tax Credit in 2022?
- How long can the credit be carried over?
- Are you able to amend the previous year's tax return to claim the adoption tax credit? Is the adoption tax credit something you can amend, and if so, how do you amend and how many years back?
- Will the Adoption Tax Credit offset self-employment tax?
- How does the Secure Act impact claiming the Adoption Tax Credit for 2022 taxes?
- What should you do if the child’s Social Security Number is not available when you file?
- Should you use an Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number (ATIN #) if you don’t have the child’s social security number?
- How does the Adoption Tax Credit work in conjunction with employee adoption benefits? For special needs adoption?
- Qualified Birth or Adoption Distribution from Qualified Retirement Plan without penalty. Under Secure Act.
- If you adopt, can you still get the Child Tax Credit?
- What do you need in order to get the Child Tax Credit for your adopted child?
- Do you need to send to the IRS any documentation for the Adoption Tax Credit when you file your taxes? What type of documentation should you keep in your records?
- How to find a tax specialist knowledgeable on the Adoption Tax Credit? https://adoptiontaxcredit.org
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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