An agency adoption is an adoption that is coordinated with the help of a licensed child adoption agency, such as Adoption
Services. The most important factor in selecting an
adoption agency is that the agency is licensed to provide you with a full range of professional services.
You may find that there are adoption facilitators or non-licensed programs that will attempt to make themselves look like a legitimate licensed adoption agency. To check if an agency or organization is
licensed, contact them and ask for the phone number of the licensing authority and then you call the authority and confirm that the agency is licensed and has a good reputation.
A private adoption is takes place through an attorney, physician, facilitator, other other private individual or referral service. This kind of child adoption can be very risky for you as the birth parent
and for your child. Without a licensed child adoption agency supervising the process, adoption can be a nightmare. When you read a horror story in the news, it is typically a private child adoption.
Based on almost 40 years of experience and after helping hundreds of birth mothers, birth fathers, and adopting families get out of horrible situations, I very strongly recommend you proceed only with a licensed child
adoption agency.
Click on the following link for more detailed information on agency and private adoption.
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