I had a friend go through this a few times with his sister. Each time, the mother's rights were immediately terminated and the baby placed in foster care. Family members were allowed to adopt the kids (mom was a druggie who was prostituting herself for drugs, so no dads were known). In my friend's case, he and his partner adopted the last three kids; the first they fostered for almost a year before the courts allowed them to adopt, this after the child had lived in a foster home for 6+ months. The next two were awarded to him more quickly, within a few weeks. All three kids have been adopted by him, the older siblings were adopted by other family members (I want to say there were 8 all together, but I'm not certain). I'm in Georgia, but each state is different. I know the second child they received was not born with drugs in her system because the mom flunked a drug test and was incarcerated for the last 6 months of her pregnancy, but her rights were terminated because of her history with drug addicted babies.