I'm fourteen. I have a perfectly fine home life. Can I be adopted by another family?

catsmeow

If your 14 you have plenty of "lifetime" left to find opportunities.I think you are being very selfish and inconsiderate of your parents.Truth is you sound like a brat !

Kell-o

You would give up your "perfectly fine home life" to go to a different school? Wouldn't you miss your mom and dad?! Wait till college, then you can go wherever you want and pursue acting at that time. You are too young to make a decision like that right now.

ladedamom

You could, HOWEVER-
1. your parents would have to consent to giving you up completely and would cease to be your parents forever. You can't place yourself up for adoption.
2. If your homelife is normal and stable chances are the state isn't going to step in and remove you or agree to.
3. You would have no idea how long you would have to wait to be matched to a family or adopted. At 14 you could age out of the system before an adoption would even happen. You would be living as a ward of the state and who knows where you'd end up living until the time to adopt came. It would be in your home state and very hard for someone out of state to adopt you once you are in your states system.

Your best bit before totally altering your life this way (not to mention upsetting the lives of your family and parents) I would check and see if there were host families for the school or if boarding opportunities were available. Is there a family member that lives near the school that you could live with during the school year?

I wouldn't tear your entire life apart on something like a school. This isn't the only school that will offer performing arts or the opportunities to study them.

Randy B

Before you could be adopted you would have to have your parents sign away their legal custody rights over you which is a big step. It would mean that legally they have no parental rights and as far as the courts and the world exist, legally, they are no longer your family. A pretty big step to take just for a school. It's permanent, it's for life and it's none revocable. If you ever wanted to "go back" it would require your new adoptive parent to legally sign away their rights and for your birth parents to adopt you again as their child. If one of those parties did not consent then you could be "stuck" where you are.

It could take a while IF all parties consent and it could cost quite a bit so I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.

Zebra

You don't need to be adopted, what you're asking about is boarding with another family to be near the school. Like going to a private boarding school only the school you're going to is just a regular one so you need to find someone to stay with. Have you asked your parents? My guess is they'll say no. Why on earth would you think you'd need to be adopted out to do this? You don't sound very loyal to your family if you were actually considering that, instead of just staying with another family as a paying guest. That is if your parents are will to pay for your room and board in someone elses house.

Amber Marie

Your parents would have to give you up, adoption is a legal thing and is very serious. You can only be adopted if you don't have parents... Have you considered a performing arts boarding school?

tricia123

why don't you have your parents look into a student exchange program or something.
It doesn't make sense that you would give up a perfectly fine home life for some school. Get a clue. You have a lot of time to take your performing arts to another level.

shirley n

tell you the truth yes you can be adopted again because i was adopted twice so yeah you can and to be honest my adopted mom said that some paents dont want older kids like me so Im lucky and for me it took 2 yrs to get my parents now and im 13 and adopted when i was 1 and went in foster care when i was 7 and adopted again at 9. also it will change you alot.

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