Category: Adopting a Child

Once you’ve decided you’re ready to start the adoption process, the application itself is often the first concrete step — and also one of the most intimidating, since it asks you to put your family’s...

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already decided you’re interested in adoption — you just don’t know what to actually do first. That’s normal, and it’s the right question to ask before...

Choosing an adoption agency is one of the highest-stakes decisions in the entire adoption process — it shapes your cost, your timeline, the ethical quality of your experience, and, in domestic infant adoption, the kind of...

Adopting a child touches almost every part of life at once — legal paperwork, a home visit, a background check, a budget, sometimes a training class, and then a waiting period that can stretch on with no fixed end date....

“Do I even qualify?” is almost always the first question behind a search for adoption requirements, and it’s a reasonable one to want answered before you invest months in a home study, an application fee, or an...

If you’re preparing to adopt, there’s a good chance the home study is the single step you’re most nervous about — and it’s also the one step every path to adoption in the United States requires, with no...

If you’re ready to grow your family through adoption, the process can feel like a maze of unfamiliar terms — home study, matching, post-placement supervision, finalization — strung across a timeline nobody will give you a...