Space requirements & house set up? - Adoption.com Forums
My partner and I (along with our 3 dogs) live in a 1 bedroom house. We have plenty of space: big bedroom, living room/dining room, large kitchen and backyard. We also have a large attic space upstairs with two big rooms, one I currently use for my home office and one that will be a guest room.
The attic is only accessible via a vertical ladder, so it's really not a safe option for a child's room.
We'll be like to be open to infants and kids up to the age of 5, but I can't imagine it's (for lack of a better term) appropriate for a 5 year old to set up camp in our bedroom. I know there are legal requirements for space, but I don't know what they are and at what ages.
We could conceivably move our bedroom up into the attic and turn the downstairs bedroom into a kid's room, but my worry is having a child alone on the ground floor of a house during the night. We live in a diverse neighborhood and our house is VERY secure, but still...
Help!
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