Adoptions

The number of couples choosing to grow their family through adoption continues to grow each year. As of the 2000 Census, there were 1.5 million children under the age of 18 (2 percent of all children in the U.S.) who joined their family through adoption.

Choosing Adoption
Today's domestic adoptions places pregnant women in control of their adoption plan. Not only are they able to personally select an adoptive family for their child, but they also have the opportunity to see their child grow through pictures and letters. Closed adoptions - in which the birth mother was not given any information regarding the adoptive family or information about her child as they grew up - are now rare as more and more studies have proven that closed adoptions have many negative effects. Today, many adoptions are semi-open in nature, meaning pictures and letters are shared between the birth mother and the adoptive family through a third party, usually an adoption agency. Open adoptions are also becoming more popular, in which both the birth mother and the adoptive family maintain contact with one another, without the assistance of a third party.

Pregnant and Considering Adoption? Learn how adoption may be the choice for you.

More Couples Choosing Domestic Adoptions
Just as more pregnant women are choosing to place their child for adoption, more and more couples are choosing to focus on growing their family through adoption. Although Hollywood stars have made recent headlines by adopting internationally, the truth is that infant domestic adoption is alive and well in the U.S. Domestic adoptions continue to grow each year as more couples turn away from adopting internationally due to recent reports of corruption and other illegal activities involved in some international adoptions.

Want to adopt a child? Learn more about domestic adoptions.