The Dept contacted us today to advise that we are now required to pay for our assessment. Assessment is where an adoption case worker (social worker) interviews Aaron and I over a period of time and writes a report on our suitability as adoptive parents. Pretty darn suitable, I hope!
We submitted our workbooks and profiles to the Dept today. What a relief! They were a long time coming, not that there's a great rush - still 8 months til I'm thirty. In any case, we completed graphs, charts, responses to readings, family trees, financial statements and our life stories.
Some of the questions we each had to write about included the following toughies:
How has your position in the family (eg. youngest/third/middle child) influenced your roles and attitudes?
Describe your most recent disagreement with your partner - what was it about and how was it resolved?
Can you identify any patterns in the way in which you manage stresses?
What three things do you like and dislike about your partner?
What do you look forward to most as a parent?
In what circumstances could you see yourself allowing a child to win an argument?
and the absolute corker:
Why do you want to have children?
