Find Filipino Adoptive Parents for My Baby

You can make Filipino heritage and cultural connection important preferences when choosing an adoptive family for your baby. You may also consider the traditions, values, family relationships and other qualities you hope will be part of your child’s upbringing.

We can help you explore diverse, carefully screened prospective adoptive families from across the country based on what you are looking for. You decide which family you want to choose for your baby and which cultural connections are important to your search.

How to Find Filipino-American Adoptive Parents for Your Baby

Your search can start with a conversation about what you hope to find in your child’s future family. Tell your adoption specialist that Filipino heritage or cultural connection is a priority, along with any other qualities you want to consider. From there, you can:

• Describe What You’re Looking For: Share the cultural background, values, family life and other characteristics you want your specialist to keep in mind.
• Explore Prospective Families: Review available family profiles to learn about parents whose backgrounds and lives align with your preferences.
• Ask More Specific Questions: Talk with families who interest you to better understand their values, relationships and plans for your child’s upbringing.
• Decide Who Feels Right: Consider everything you have learned and choose whether a prospective family reflects the future you want for your child.

Sharing Filipino heritage may be important to you, but it does not mean you have to choose a family based on ethnicity alone. You decide which prospective parents feel right for your baby.

Choose the Filipino-American Family Connections That Matter to You

Filipino heritage can be represented differently from one family to another. As you think about your child’s future, you can decide which cultural and family connections you would like to see reflected in their everyday life. Those preferences might include:

Defining these preferences can help you look beyond whether prospective parents identify as Filipino and consider what their family life could offer your child.

Can I Choose Parents Who Speak Tagalog or Another Philippine Language?

Yes. If maintaining a connection to Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano or another Philippine language matters to you, you can make language part of what you consider when choosing an adoptive family. As you learn about prospective parents, you may want to consider:

• Which Language They Speak: Does the family speak the same Philippine language you hope your child will know?
• Who Speaks It: Is the language spoken by one or both parents, grandparents or other extended family members?
• How It Is Used: Is the language regularly spoken at home, during family gatherings or when communicating with relatives?
• Future Language Connection: How does the family hope to keep the language present in your child’s life as they grow?

Sharing these preferences with your adoption specialist can help clarify what kind of language connection you hope to find in your child’s future family.

Questions to Ask Filipino-American Adoptive Parents Before Choosing Them

Talking with prospective adoptive parents can help you understand what Filipino culture looks like within their family and how they hope to incorporate it into your child’s upbringing. Shared heritage may be important to you, but you can also consider the family’s values, relationships and plans for the future. Questions you may want to ask include:

• What Filipino traditions or celebrations are meaningful to your family?
• What relationships do you have with extended family and Filipino or Filipino-American communities?
• How would you help my child learn about and stay connected to their Filipino heritage as they grow?
• What role do food, language or other cultural traditions have in your family life?
• Which values from your own upbringing do you hope to pass along to my child?
• What do you hope your family life will look like as my child grows?

These conversations can give you a fuller picture of prospective parents and help you decide whether their family reflects the cultural connections, values and upbringing you want for your child.

Open Adoption Can Keep Your Child Connected to More Than One Family

Choosing Filipino-American adoptive parents and deciding what kind of relationship you hope to have after placement are separate parts of your adoption plan. You can consider both the cultural connections you want in an adoptive family and the ongoing connection you hope to have with your child.

Depending on the relationship you and the adoptive family agree on, an open or semi-open adoption may include:

An ongoing relationship can also give your child opportunities to know you and learn about their birth family, family history and personal background directly from you. Those connections can exist alongside the Filipino cultural traditions and relationships that are part of their adoptive family.

What If I Don’t Find a Filipino Family Who Feels Right?

Sharing Filipino heritage does not automatically mean a prospective family will reflect everything you want for your child. If the families you consider do not feel right to you, you do not have to choose someone based on cultural background alone. You can talk with your adoption specialist about different ways to approach your search:

• Revisit Family Profiles: Take another look at prospective families as you become clearer about what you want for your child.
• Clarify Your Priorities: Identify which cultural, family and relationship preferences you want to prioritize and where you may have more flexibility.
• Discuss Other Cultural Connections: Consider what would make you feel confident that a family could maintain meaningful connections to Filipino culture, such as relationships with extended family, language, traditions or community involvement.

You decide which qualities you want to prioritize and which prospective adoptive family you ultimately choose for your baby.

American Adoptions Can Help You Search Beyond a Small Local Pool

A specific preference such as Filipino heritage can narrow your family search. Our national reach allows you to consider carefully screened prospective parents from across the country, giving you a broader range of families to explore.

You can browse our waiting adoptive families to learn more about prospective parents currently available or talk with your specialist about the qualities you hope to find.

Tell Us What You Want in a Filipino Adoptive Family

Finding the right parents for your baby is about building the future you envision for them. If keeping your child connected to Filipino culture, values and family bonds is essential to you, you can make that the centerpiece of your adoption plan.

You do not have to commit to adoption to get answers. You can contact an American Adoptions specialist at any time to discuss your goals, ask questions about our screened families and see profiles that reflect the cultural future you want for your baby.

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