The Mexican child welfare authority does everything in its power to provide programs that help remove stressors in families that can lead to risky parenting behaviors and to give biological parents family counseling and services to increase their parenting skills. Regretfully these strategic interventions are not always fruitful and other biological family members are not able to parent these children.
As a result, most of the children in this adoption program reside at a state run orphanage because the government terminated their biological parent’s parental rights due to neglect or abuse. Children at the orphanage benefit from multiple education and therapeutic services while they await new permanent families and a high staff to child ratio. CHSFS, therefore, is interested in finding homes for these children among families with strategies for dealing with children with these types of backgrounds.
Most of the children waiting for adoption are:
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