When my wife and I adopted, we basically said, "If we foster this kid only to have her taken away and replaced in her biological family, we don't know if we could do it a second time."

When you engage in an legal-risk (or fost-adopt) adoption, you risk not ending up with the child you have taken into your home, begun to nurture, and hopefully have helped give a leg up in the world.

Are you a foster-adoptive parent? Have you lost a child that you were foster-adopting? Did the risk of losing the child that was placed into your home factor into your decision to fost-adopt or not?