Adoptions and Orphans

Whether you are considering doing an agency or independent adoption, one of the first things that you will have to do is to work with an agency to complete a Home Study. The Home Study is comprised of information that you give to the agency in the form of questionnaires, interviews and forms. For many [...]

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What will we face when adoptees ask their birth parents, "Why did you put me in a gay home instead of with a heterosexual family? Was it because the gay couple paid a higher fee to an attorney or the birth mother?" Many professionals and birth parents are concerned with what the long term effects [...]

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International adoption is a very positive alternative for couples who’ve endured disappointing fertility results and failed domestic adoption attempts. International adoption differs from domestic adoption because of the sheer number of orphans available for adoption from around the world.
The availability of orphans means that you generally get to exert more control over the process of [...]

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International Adoption - The Basics of Adopting from another Country
By Patrick Phillips
The issue of “Foreign Adoption”, “Overseas Adoption”, “International Adoption”, “Intercountry Adoption”, call it what you will or prefer, has been raised a great many times. The common misconception of a well meaning family from the developed world carrying a suitcase full of cash and [...]

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Domestic Adoption
 
Domestic adoption is the process of adopting a child from your home country.  Statistics show that less than half of all adoptions are domestic while more than half are International adoptions. If you decide to adopt domestically expect to wait a little longer, on average, for a child than if you were adopting from [...]

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