One of the biggest decisions when starting the domestic infant adoption process is selecting an adoption professional to help you. There are hundreds to choose from and it can take hours to get the information you need to make a good decision for your family.
Finances are a huge factor when selecting an adoption agency to help you. The following three adoption agencies have little or no upfront fees so I invite you to check them out for yourself. As with any adoption agency, make sure you ask lots of questions and you feel good about working with them.
This not-for-profit adoption agency was founded in 1998 and is based in Utah. They specialize in domestic infant adoption. Even though they are licensed in Utah, Florida, and New York, they work with families from all over the United States.
There is minimal application fee and all fees paid to the agency will roll info a new situation if the placement fails. They do summarize their fees in the section “answers to your common questions” for hopeful adoptive parents.
They will discuss your adoption budget with you before you start working with them, so you can let them know the level of fees you are comfortable with.
They will discuss all fees associated with each particular situation with you before they show your profile to any potential match situations.
Check out their frequently asked questions to find out more.
They accept home studies from other qualified agencies, so you don’t have to get your home study completed through them. They also have a blog where you can follow them.
2. Creating Christian Families and Mother Goose Adoptions
This agency is licensed in Arizona, Florida and Utah. They have a low application fee and no other upfront fees. You pay their agency fee only when you are successfully matched with an expectant mother. They offer a Full Service program and a Special Beginnings program.
The Full Service Program runs an extensive national advertising initiative to help identify pregnant women seeking to make an adoption plan for their unborn child. In this program, they assist with the location and coordination of your adoption plan.
The Full Service program fee includes, but is not limited to the following services:
- Review of home study
- Counseling (limited), support and education to our families
- Obtaining and reviewing proof of pregnancy, social/medical background information and medical records
- Notification to hospital regarding adoption plan and inquiry on hospital policies
- Identification of an attorney or agency local to birth family for execution of legal documents
- Coordination of legal plan ( see addendum to schedule of fees for details on these services)
Please note an entire fee package that covers the agency fee, as well as the anticipated legal and other cost, will be presented at time of match.
The Special Beginnings program is designed to help obtain families for harder to place children. This program gives you all the services from the Full Service program but families are granted 50% off the agency fee to offset cost.
As of this writing, their full service program is $23,000. You can review their adoption process, read FAQs and their About Us page on their site.
This is a licensed adoption agency that has a low upfront application fee ($750 at the time of this blog posting).
Their costs are spelled out on their Hoping To Adopt page so you can find out their current fees.
As with any agency you may potentially work with, please carefully review their contract to understand how they work before you sign on with them.
You should also look them up on the Better Business Bureau as well as checking their state licensing since every state’s adoption laws are different.
Need more help finding an agency?
Adoption agencies are not all the same. They can look the same, but operate much differently. How do you know what makes a great agency? Who can you trust? How do you find agencies? Google search?
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