You didn't have a relative adopt them? That should always be option 1. I don't know how it works. Forgive my ignorance. When I was 11 or so, I moved to a new town. My new friend had another friend who's mom asked to adopt me. My friend said she "adopted" many of his friends. I think it was just to be placed in custody if anything happened to my parents.
My Father was going to, but he was diagnosed at that time with stage four pancreatic cancer which he would later die of. No other family would help, my mom wanted to also but she lived in Canada.
You didn't have a relative adopt them? That should always be option 1. I don't know how it works. Forgive my ignorance. When I was 11 or so, I moved to a new town. My new friend had another friend who's mom asked to adopt me. My friend said she "adopted" many of his friends. I think it was just to be placed in custody if anything happened to my parents.
My Father was going to, but he was diagnosed at that time with stage four pancreatic cancer which he would later die of. No other family would help, my mom wanted to also but she lived in Canada.