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Adoption Process

Aubree Giddings

Thesis: In the past, children were raised mostly by their biological parents. In the rare case they were not, they had either to survive on the streets or live in orphanages. Times have changed, and today children can be raised in single-parent families, by grandparents, foster parents, stepparents, or other parenting figures—all this is due to the procedure of adoption, which has become common worldwide.

Adoptive Family

Several factors to Consider

  • adopt a baby or an older child?
  • adopt domestically or internationally?
  • adopt privately or through the state foster care system?
  • have any sort of communication with the birth parents?

Adoption Professional

Choosing an Adoption Professional

  • You want to interview the agency
  • Seek out who you feel comfortable with
  • Adoption Professional A's $20,000 fees to Adoption Professional B's $30,000 fees -- don't select agency because of price
  • You'll want to investigate
  • wait times
  • disruption rates
  • hidden fees
  • financial protection
  • amount of support, education and guidance, etc.

Active Family

Becoming an Active Family

  • Do not receive child immediately
  • Home study
  • background checks, interviews, financial information
  • Adoption Planning Questionaire
  • Helps determine a good fit, children you are interested in, contact with birth parents, medical conditions you are accepting of
  • Adoption Profiles
  • text and pictures about your family, a video to help birthmothers see what the child's life would be like as a member of your family

Adoption Opportunity

  • Still want to continue your life
  • Searching for a child to match with your home or a birth mom to say "yes"
  • Patience is key

Communication

  • Domestic: communication with birth parents
  • Conference call
  • email exchange
  • meet during placement
  • International: communication with orphanage
  • May show child pictures of family
  • Begin calling child by new name

Finalize Domestically

  • Complete ICPC (Interstate compact on placement of children)
  • Complete Post-Placement Visits
  • Attend finalization hearing
  • Once completed: family granted legal custody & birth parents are terminated of their rights

Finalize Internationally

  • Must have an immigrant visa for child to enter U.S.
  • Children with IR-3 and IH-3 automatically require citizenship
  • Children with IR-4 and IH-4 visas receive a green card and are later a U.S. citizen on the date of their adoption in the U.S.
  • Children with IR-2 visas automatically receive citizenship under 18, receive green card and permanent resident if older than 18

To Conclude

  • Many things to consider (domestic or international, open or closed, boy or girl, health issues)
  • A way to provide parenting care to children
  • Bio parents have no opportunities or desire to do so
  • Establishes a lifelong legally-recognized relationship
  • Adoptive parents take on all responsibilities

References

  • American Adoptions Resources
  • “Introduction to Adoption.” Royal Greenwich.
  • "Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms." Susan Golombok.
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