American Adoptions' Advantages

• Families are concerned about waiting times.
• Clients don’t want to endure many, or any, emotional or financial disappointments from adoptions that don’t work out.
• Families want to set a budget for their adoption and don’t want to have a bunch of variable, hidden or at-risk expenses.
• Every family wants to pay as little as possible, without sacrificing safety, time or service.
• Most clients want a healthy child with no special needs.
• Most families have race, age and/or gender preferences.
• Some clients want to help children overseas.
• Most families are concerned about birth parents changing their minds or countries closing their operations.
• Most want to work with an experienced professional who can guide and protect them through the adoption process.
• All families want to join an organization that is reliable, safe and stable. 

• Our agency monitors and balances the number of adoptions with the number of families joining.
• We spend over $1.5 million a year in marketing to reach out to pregnant women considering adoption.
• Accurate waiting times and cost estimates- We carefully track our waiting times and cost estimates to ensure accuracy. Families who don’t fully understand other adoption professionals can be fooled by lower cost/time estimates by other adoption professionals. Make sure you fully understand and evaluate the professionals you are considering.
• We complete over 300 adoptions a year.
• We aren’t confined to one state and therefore our adoption placements are consistent from year to year.  You can read the challenges of an adoption professional who works only in one state.
• Birth client accessibility- Women considering adoption for their baby are able to reach one of our counselors 24 hours a day. While this might seem insignificant, it is not. Thirty six percent of all initial birth mother inquiries occur after normal operation hours and our birth mothers are transferred directly to an on-call specialist. They don’t have to leave a message, which initial callers rarely do. Beyond initial callers, our adoption specialists are available to help our birth mothers through any emotions or thoughts 24 hours a day. You never know when they might go into labor or just need someone to help process their thoughts and feelings. 

• We have one of the lowest adoption disruption rates, which simply is when a birth mother changes her mind.
• We have one of the most experienced Social Service Departments in the United States. This wealth of knowledge helps better educate and prepares you for the adoption process. Furthermore, it allows us to better evaluate women considering adoption for their baby and their commitment adoption.
• Our Social Service Department helps birth parents identify their needs, prepare them for the emotions of choosing adoption, help them develop a solid adoption plan, select the best family for their baby and prepare them for the emotions once the baby is born and the adoptive placement is made.  You might find it help to read "Does every pregnant mother really need counseling?"
• We offer a very unique financial protection to our clients. Our agency fees absorb many of the financial risks families typically experience with other professionals. At American Adoptions, if a birth mother changes her mind, you will not lose any money in living expenses, medical expenses, counseling expenses and in many cases, will not lose legal expenses. With other professionals, your financial losses in adoptions that don’t work out can easily exceed $10,000 to $20,000. 

• You are able to set a fixed budget for their adoption.
• Our agency absorbs many of the financial risks associated with adoptions that don't work out, thereby protecting you from financial losses you will find with most other adoption professionals.
• We provide you an outline of all potential fees. 

• Our fees to clients are based on our costs to run an ethical, safe and solid adoption program. 
• Organizations that charge less for their services either cut essential services or put increased financial risk onto their clients. Since most clients don’t want a risky adoption, the reason why families join other adoption organizations with elevated risks is simply because they don’t know how to determine the riskier organizations from the safer ones.  One of the most important articles you can read is "How are Adoption Organizations regulated?" 

• Domestically, 99 percent of our adoptions are healthy newborns and infants.
• Families are able to select the race(s) which they are comfortable selecting.
• All birth parent social and medical history forms provided to us are given to the adoptive family.
• All medical records on the birth mother and child that are provided to us are given to the adoptive family.
• At the hospital, the adoptive family may run medical tests on the child.
• We offer a gender-specific option whereby clients can select their gender preference. 

• While adoption disruptions can never be eliminated, they can be reduced by a qualified Social Service Department. Without a qualified Social Service Department, birth parents are not emotionally prepared, educated or supported, which can lead to more failed adoptions.  Most prospective adoptive families are interested in learning about "preventing a disrupted or overturned adoption."
• In the last 10 years, our agency has completed more private domestic adoptions than any adoption organization in the United States. This experience helps us understand what our clients need.
• Personal Adoption Experience- American Adoptions was founded by an adoptee and his adoptive parents. We truly understand what it's like to be touched by adoption. Like our founders, our staff is also unique because many were adopted, placed a child for adoption or adopted a child. Many people turn to American Adoptions because they want to work with someone who has walked in their shoes. Our personal experience allows us to better understand what you will be experiencing during the various stages of the process. This fact is helpful and sometimes crucial in creating a successful adoption.
• Birth parent accessibility- Women considering adoption for their baby are able to reach one of our adoption specialists 24 hours a day. Our adoption specialists are available to help our birth mothers through any emotions or thoughts 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 

• Greater dependability and reliability- We are licensed in six states. We have six state government regulators who check our case files, personnel files, materials, financials and general operations to ensure we are following state regulations and laws. This type of regulation provides great security for you and all of the clients we serve. 
• Our industry-leading Social Service Department helps both birth and adoptive families.
• Staff with personal adoption experience
• Birth client accessibility is crucial for successful adoptions.
• Experience- In the last 10 years, no organization has completed more private adoptions across all 50 states. We understand many of the conflicts that can exist between various state laws. We work with top-notch legal professionals who complete the legal paperwork across these 50 states. Our experience helps our clients navigate successfully through the adoption process. Even when the process is bumpy, our experience helps our clients determine when it is time to get off the road and onto another.
• Marriage- We view our relationship with our families as a marriage. Together, we want to evaluate your needs with our services, so that we can be certain we are a good match. We will only serve clients that fully understand our agency’s strengths and limitations. We don’t want clients joining our agency expecting services that we don’t offer. It has to be a well thought out and appropriate marriage for us both.  
• You will have your own adoption advocate who supports you through the process. Our adoption advocates each originally worked with birth parents, completing each over 100 adoptions. This experience allows you to best understand birth parents and what is needed for a successful adoption.