Search Results

Adoption Home Study: Becoming Legally Approved To Adopt

The adoption home study is the process where a licensed home study provider (typically an adoption agency) educates, prepares and evaluates the adoptive family to make sure there is a good match between a child’s needs and the family’s ability to meet those needs. Every family in the U.S. who plans...

Adoption In Other Religions

Many adoption agencies in the United States have a history of being founded by a particular religious organization, or even by one person who happens to be part of a major religion.Today, many adoption agencies are still affiliated with a particular faith or religion. Adoption agencies in religions...

Adoption Profile Videos – Do It Yourself vs. Hiring A Professional

Adoption profile videos can be one the best tools for reaching out and connecting with a prospective birthmother. Videos are easier than ever to create, edit, and share. You can watch videos from almost anywhere – from a TV, phone, tablet, or computer.This means expectant mothers who are considering...

Baby Adoption

There are many ways a family can adopt a baby, including working with an adoption agency, an adoption attorney, and even through foster adoption. Private domestic adoption through an agency or attorney is the most common way for families to adopt a newborn baby. Adopting internationally or through...

Catholic Adoption

Adoption services are often provided by religious organizations. Many hopeful adoptive families every year choose to work with agencies who are part of their faith. Many expectant mothers choose to place their children with families of their same faith.In the U.S., the two main Catholic adoption org...

Child Adoption Costs

When someone chooses to adopt a child in the U.S., it typically means adopting from the foster care system.Adopting from the U.S. foster care system involves children who are in the custody of their state department of child and family services. Thousands of children are currently waiting to be adop...

Closed Adoption

Many years ago, almost every adoption in the U.S. was considered closed. An adoption was called “closed” because the records of who the biological parents were (and even the original birth certificate) were sealed so no one could access them.The sealed records were meant to prevent the adoptee and t...

Co-Parent Adoption (Same Sex Partners)

There is much discussion and debate among agencies, social workers, and policy makers about same sex partners being able to adopt and foster adopt. In the U.S., there are an estimated 65,000 children who have been adopted by a same sex couple and another 14,000 children who are in same sex parent fo...

Domestic Adoption

Domestic adoption is the process of adopting a child from the country in which you live. In the United States, adoption is controlled by state specific laws. In other words, every state has its own law so what is legal in one state, may not be legal in another. Before a prospective adoptive family b...

Domestic Adoption Costs

With domestic adoption in the U.S., there are licensed adoption professionals who help make sure a child is safely placed with the right family.Domestic adoption costs will vary widely based on the type of adoption (newborn or foster) a family chooses. Adopting from the U.S. foster care system invol...

Foster Care Adoption

Foster care adoption is the process of adopting a child who is in the custody of their State or county's Department of Child and Family Services.There are over 400,000 children in the U.S. foster care system, which means they are in the temporary custody of the State while their parents are given th...

Free Adoption

While it may sound good at first glance, there is no such thing as a 'free adoption'.There are costs involved in every adoption. Of the many types of adoption (foster adopt, international, domestic, etc.), they can vary widely in cost. Adoptions through the foster care system come closer to ‘free’ t...