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How do I start the adoption process?

Adoption.com is pleased to offer a free online guide for those considering adoption. The guide will walk you through the learning process, the actual steps to adoption, and give you tools... [more]

What is an adoption homestudy?

The homestudy is an assessment of your understanding of adoption and your readiness to bring an adopted child into your home. The cost, who can perform a homestudy, and other details will d... [more]

An Open Adoption

My husband and I were married on Valentine's Day in 1987. He was 42 and I was 20. There was quite an age difference; it mattered to some but not to us. Love is love -- no matter what. We w... [more]

Adopting in the Military & From Overseas

Adoption Statistics: Placing Children

2% of unmarried women at any age place their child for adoption. (ChildTrends, 1995) The percentage of premarital births placed for adoption has decreased since the 1970s. Analyses... [more]

Adoption Statistics: Hoping to Adopt

Since the end of World War II, interest in adoption primarily has focused on healthy, young infants. By the mid-1950's, the demand for healthy infants grew so significantly that it exceeded... [more]

Statistics on Cost of Adopting

Domestic public agency adoption: Zero to $2,500 Domestic private agency adoption: $4,000 to $30,000+ Domestic independent adoption: $8,000 t... [more]

The Adoption Photolisting

Internet photo listing of 3,000+ children awaiting adoption in U.S. foster homes and international orphanages.... [more]

stories.adoption.com

Adoption stories range from very brief expressions of emotion to full accounts of our experiences and longer detailed journals of events connected to adoption in our lives. Here you wil... [more]

laws.adoption.com

Adoption law differs from state to state, and federal laws also affect many procedures connected with the adoption process. It's important that adopting and placing parents, as well as thos... [more]

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