What Are My Options

Adoption

If, on the other hand, you choose adoption, we’ll help you to explore all the adoption options that are available: non-identified or identified adoption ; adoption by a two-parent family or by a single-parent family; adoption by a family of the same racial and/or ethnic background as you; or adoption by a family of a different background; or an international adoption.

Forever Families Through Adoption, Inc. will work with you to select an adoptive parent or parents with whom you are comfortable. We will actively recruit families for your baby throughout the United States and overseas, using our extensive network of contacts with other agencies, attorneys and parent support groups. We will do everything within our power to assure that all our children go directly into safe and permanent loving homes. Often birth mothers are reluctant to place their children locally – a specialty of FFTA is assisting birth parents in placing their children for adoption with an adoptive family residing out-of-state or even out of the country. If you like, we can facilitate your meeting with prospective adoptive families, or provide you with as much information as you need to come to a decision (within the confines of non-identified or identified adoption policies). And once you choose your child’s adoptive parent or parents, we can help you to feel comfortable with your decision through counseling, an open exchange of information, and even, if you desire, one or more face-to-face meetings.

In anticipation of the adoption, Forever Families Through Adoption will pay all of your legally approved pregnancy expenses directly from our escrow funds. In addition, Forever Families Through Adoption will assist you in locating medical care and prenatal services to help to ensure your health and the health of your unborn child. We regularly investigate and help birth parents obtain insurance coverage or Medicaid, if they’re eligible. In addition, we investigate the policies of the hospital in which you intend to deliver, to ensure that the hospital personnel and policies are sensitive to your needs.

As for the adoption, itself, FFTA’s staff prepares all of the consents and affidavits that are required, and reviews these documents with you to ensure that you have a complete understanding of the legal process. Once your baby is born, we are responsible for obtaining your consents, filing the documents necessary and accompanying you to Court. You will be given the option of either surrendering your rights to your child in court, which becomes irrevocable immediately, or out-of-court, which becomes final after (30) thirty days.

Once your baby is placed, we can provide you with post-adoption counseling through support groups, and individual or group counseling. If it’s desired by both the birth parents and the adoptive parents, we’ll arrange for periodic exchange of information and/or photographs. In addition, FFTA will continue to provide counseling services, including support groups and individual therapy, if either is needed by your child during any stage of his or her development, especially during the tumultuous times of adolescence. If such services can’t for some reason be provided directly by FFTA, they’ll be identified by us from within the community.