Family Connections, Inc. Blog

Hundreds of thousands of children are waiting in orphanages around the world for forever families.  Can you provide a loving family for an orphaned child?   

Once you have decided to place your unborn child into an adoptive family, you need to find an adoptive family whom you trust to love and care for your child.  There are thousands of adoptive families waiting to adopt who have infertility problems; their greatest wish is to parent a child. 

Starting the process of adoption begins by becoming a qualified adoptive parent.  To become an approved/qualified adoptive parent you must complete a home study investigation.  The home study process begins by contacting an authorized New York State adoption agency who can provide you with home study services.  Family Connections, Inc. is an authorized adoption agency who conducts home study investigations. Outlined below are the steps necessary to complete a home study investigation:

New York State allows and supports a birthparent(s) who choses an open adoption plan.

If you have an unplanned pregnancy and are trying to decide what is best for you and your unborn baby - You Have Options and Choices!  You can choose to parent the child or to place the child into a loving adoptive family.  There are three types of adoption options available to you. The decision is yours to make.

“You are a mom” – I will never forget those wonderful words spoken by my social worker when she called to let me know that my second daughter Pearl Mae Yu Rong was waiting for me in China. My daughter was seven months old and living in a Social Welfare Institute in the Guangdong Province. I couldn’t wait to hold her in my arms.

People say all the time how “lucky” my new little brother is. Imagine a three year old little boy living in a Russian orphanage, who didn’t know how to play with the simplest toys, and couldn’t eat with a spoon or fork. He wasn’t able to talk much and was so weak and skinny he could barley walk. Even though he was three, he only weighed a little over 20 pounds. He had never been held or tucked in to sleep. He didn’t have a mother to wipe his tears, or pick him up when he fell down. No one put his pictures up on a refrigerator and looked at them proudly. Worst of all, he had never really been loved.