Adopting a child from the United States (domestic adoption) can be rewarding. There are newborn babies, toddlers, preschoolers, school age children, and adolscents who need loving ad
optive families. There are children of every ethnic hertiage. There are children who are healthy and developing normally. There are children with special medical and/or developmental needs. All the children deserve a forever family.
There are three main types of domestic adoption:
- Domestic Private Agency Adoption: Families may adopt a baby with the support and guidance of an authorized/licensed adoption agency. The authorized agency, for example Family Connections, Inc., will a) investigate and approve the family for adoption, b) outreach to potential birth families, c) match the family with a birth family (via birth parent choice), d) support the development of a relationship between the birth and adoptive families, e) orchestrate the hospital plan for the two families, f) provide for the surrender and placement of the child (via adoption attorneys), and g) support the birth parent(s) and adoptive parents post-adoptive placement (life-long support). The birth parent(s) voluntarily surrender their custodial rights to the adoption agency who then provides the adoptive parents with physical custody of the child. The adoptive family receives legal custodial rights to the child upon adoption finalization in the courts. The majority of adoptions are of newborn or young infants.
- Domestic Private Independent Adoption: Families may adopt a child privately through an agreement between a birth parent(s) and adoptive family. The adoptive family matches with a birth family by themselves and makes arrangements for the adoption with private attorneys. The birth parent(s) voluntarily surrender their custodial rights to the child and the adoptive family is granted guardianship. The majority of adoptions are of newborn or young infants.
- Domestic Public Adoption: Families may adopt a child(ren) from the foster care system whose parents' custodial rights were terminated by the Court and whose foster parents do not wish to adopt them. The majority of children in need of families are children with special medical (physical and mental health) and/or developmental needs (e.g. Cerbral Palsy, chromosomal disorders, ADHD, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, visual impairment, etc). or older children (6 years and older). All the children have a history of abuse and/or neglect in their birth families. To learn more about the children waiting for families visit the national photolisting of waiting children at www.adoptuskids.org.
Family Connections, Inc. supports families who wish to adopt a child(ren) through a private agency adoption, private independent adoption, or public adoption. The agency has a private domestic infant adoption placement program. The agency also provides home study and post-placement supervision services for families adopting from the public foster care system or through a private independent adoption. Family Connections, Inc. would be glad to support your adoption plan. You can contact us at 607-756-6574 or renee@adoptfamilyconnections.org.
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