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adopting
my friend abbie is 16 and we both live in pennsylvania. she is adopted and she hates living with her mom. her mom is just so rude and always complaining saying adopting abbie was a mistake...abbie has 2 underages and a caseworker. my dad wants to adopt her so she can live with me and my dad. is that possible? how do we adopt her? and etc? are we able to adopt her? will her caseworker allow it? i need as much infomation as possible! thanks!
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You may not have to go through anything as formal as an adoption. If your father and her mother can come to an agreement, she may simply be able to move in with you until she turns 18. Her mother would still be responsible for support and would have to authorize any medical treatment she'd need. Your friend may want to consider emancipation: here's a page on emancipation of minors in PA. [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
That way her mother won't have any hold on her. Your friend deserves to live in a place where she won't be considered a 'mistake'.
Hope this helps.
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Considering that it can take up to a year or two for a family to even be approved for adoption, no. By that time she would already be out of the system. And, since she is already adopted, you would have to convince the mother to relinquish her rights before you were able to adopt her.
On the other hand, a mother saying that having adopted her was a mistake is a terrible thing to do to a child that has been through the trauma of the foster system. You should encourage your friend to talk to her caseworker about that.
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It not unusual for teens and parents not to get along. Once adopted you become like any other child a person has of their own. Unless she is being abused by her parents, she is theirs until she is 18. Then, she can do as she pleases.
So, no. Your family cannot adopt her. She is no longer without parents. I don't even know why she would still have a caseworker, unless she is a problem child. Regardless, she will have to deal with a rude mother who doesn't understand her, just like millions of other teens.
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