Adopting a teen or adult after he/she has been shunned?

popcorn_eater

Anyone have any experience with this?

I was brainstorming the other day about what could be in our future. My young teen JW stepdaughter's mom and her new husband are extremely zealous JW. We have every hope and are seeing (maybe optimistically) early indications of her at some point giving up the religion. If she does this and is DA'ed or DF'ed for that reason, I'm sure her mother would shun her. She is baptized and lives in a high pressure JW home.

If this happens, would I be in a position to legally adopt her and become her mother? Even if she is an older teen or adult?

Diest

I dont see why not. I think one of the best charitable groups you could start would be a home for JW teens and young adults. Something to transition them into the real world with good social skills.

Iamallcool

thats good idea as long as he or she is 18 or older at least in the USA. If the teen is under 18, they would have to abide by their parents rules, etc...

finally awake

Adult adoptions are not common, but they are legal. If she's still under 18, you'd have to get bio-moms approval, or get a judge to terminate her parental rights. I saw a story a while back on the news about adult adoptions - you might try googling it.

Shawn10538

This happened to my ex-fiance', Joy Tr!ff. Social services actually took her away from her parents when she was about 15. She never went back home. She wasn't disfellowshipped but her mother was verbally and physically abusive to her and she called child services on her own. Her aunt, a Non JW stepped up and took her in. She became much closer to her aunt than she ever was to her mother. her mother was cruel and mean, even when we were dating. Her father was one of the annointed but one of the dumbest most clueless individuals I have even met. Shallow as a cookie sheet. Totally enabled the mother to be more cruel and abusive. Never fought for his daughter.

Be the sweetest most loving aunt you can be and she will gravitate to you. make her a special place in your house that she can run to to escape the pressures and disfuntions of being a JW. She will make the decision on her own.