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Choosing an Agency: Placing Mother and Birthmother Treatment
One factor to consider when choosing an adoption agency is how the agency treats its placing mothers and birthmothers. Does the agency pressure women into placing their babies for adoption, or does it...
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Choosing an Agency: In State or Out of State?
When choosing an agency in the United States, you need to decide whether you want to work with a local adoption agency or with an agency in another state. There are several reasons why you might...
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Adoption Process: Adoption Agencies, Attorneys, & Facilitators
From Adoption 101: How to Adopt a Child: 1. Contact the adoption agency, attorney, or facilitator. The very first step is to find an adoption agency, attorney, or facilitator. What is the difference...
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Adoption Process: Adoption Orientation
From Adoption 101: How to Adopt a Child: 2. Attend an adoption orientation. While not all agencies, attorneys, and facilitators hold adoption orientations, be sure to attend one if they do. You can...
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The Most Important Question to Ask
Robyn gave a fantastic list of questions to ask potential agencies just yesterday. (Seriously, if you haven’t read through the list and printed it, please go check it out.) She hit on one question,...
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Starting with the A’s
I just spent the last 2-1/2 hours starting with the A’s. No, not the baseball team. Let me explain… As soon as we got home with Jack, I started noting agencies that other people recommended. We used a...
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What’s the Deal with Agency Web Sites?
I’ve spent every night this week going through my list of recommended agencies. I’m in the P’s now. I have a list of 13 questions that I expect the web sites to answer. OK, maybe more like, I would...
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Getting Oriented
Tonight, my husband and I attended an orientation meeting by a local facilitator. We’re most likely going to sign with them in the very near future. Both of the presenters worked for the organization...
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Getting to Know You
This week, hot on the heels of attending an orientation meeting for the facilitator we’re going to sign with, I decided to do their “Getting to Know You” adoptive parent questionnaire. Each parent has...
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Adoption After Breast Cancer
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago, I was 32 years old, married, working on a career, and had yet to turn on the biological time clock. However, life changed after that fateful phone...
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