Types of Adoption

If you are considering placing your child for adoption, you should take a few minutes to read the information below.  It will explain your choices and will help assure you that what you do is best for you and your baby.

Open and Closed Adoptions are frequently misunderstood not only by birth mothers and birth fathers but also by adopting families. This site will allow you to fully understand an open adoption and a closed adoptions and gives you some valuable help in custom-designing the arrangements so that they meet with your wishes and desires.

Agency Adoption versus Private Adoption

Agency vs Facilitator adoptions have become such an important concern that the U.S. government has warned birth mothers, birth fathers and adopting families to work with an agency and avoid adoption facilitators. This site will explain the differences between using an agency and a facilitator and offer guidance to a birth mother and birth father.

Explains the major Types of Adoption: agency and private, open and closed, and intrastate, interstate, and international adoption. Understanding these can help a birth mother and birth father develop a meaningful adoption plan for their child.

This site will give a birth mother and birth father specific tips on how to select the agency that is best for you and tour baby.

If you have decided to work with a licensed adoption agency, you do not need to worry about Selecting Attorney.  This is a valuable site to help a birth mother and birth father if they have decided to retain and attorney.

In order to make sure the family that adopts your child is indeed the type you want, and to help assure a safe environment for your baby, every family needs to be carefully screened and evaluated.

Provides information and help is you are thinking of placing your child with a relative.