Open Adoption
Support for You and Your Child
If you are thinking of making an open adoption plan for your baby or child, we are here to help you find out more. Know that you have many choices and rights in making an open adoption plan, including choosing the adoptive family for your child and remaining in contact.
OPEN ADOPTION
Support for You and Your Child
If you are thinking of making an open adoption plan for your baby or child, we are here to help you find out more. Know that you have many choices and rights in making an open adoption plan, including choosing the adoptive family for your child and remaining in contact.
You Make the Choices
Lifetime Adoption, OpenAdoption.com’s parent company, has been promoting domestic adoption for over 35 years. Providing services to people nationwide, our program is tailored both for adoptive families and birth parents. Excellent adoption services are something that Lifetime Adoption has an exceptional reputation for. Lifetime is one of the few adoption organizations in the country that is a member of the Better Business Bureau.
View Lifetime Adoption’s Better Business Bureau report here.
If you are thinking of making an open adoption plan for your baby or child, Lifetime is here to help you find out more. Know that you have many choices and rights in making an open adoption plan, including choosing the adoptive family for your child and remaining in contact. If you have questions or need help now, please call or text Lifetime at 1-800-923-6784.
Those dreaming of adopting a baby or child into their home will find a wealth of information here at OpenAdoption.com. Wondering “what is open adoption?” or about open adoption vs. closed adoption? Take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions About Open Adoption page or our Adoption Articles page.
We’ve assisted many in realizing their dreams of starting or building their family via open adoption. If you have questions about how to start your journey towards adopting, feel free to visit Lifetime Adoption for more information or call (727) 493-0933.
Thinking about Open Adoption for your Baby or Child?
For birth parents we offer confidentiality, guidance and encouragement during and after the adoption.
We care about what you want and need and have been helping birth families of all ages nationwide with their adoption plans for over 25 years.
You can view hopeful adoptive parents, and when you are interested in speaking to or emailing them, you can contact one of our qualified adoption coordinators. We work with birth parents to help them find just the right match in adoptive parents. We will help you make an adoption plan for your baby. Each coordinator is a caring woman who desires to help birth parents facing unplanned pregnancies with parenting choices or adoption. We have many resources to help and we never charge birth families for these services. Click here to view a current listing of waiting adoptive families.
You Make the Choices
Lifetime Adoption, OpenAdoption.com’s parent company, has been promoting domestic adoption for over 35 years. Providing services to people nationwide, our program is tailored both for adoptive families and birth parents. Excellent adoption services are something that Lifetime Adoption has an exceptional reputation for. Lifetime is one of the few adoption organizations in the country that is a member of the Better Business Bureau.
View Lifetime Adoption’s Better Business Bureau report here.
If you are thinking of making an open adoption plan for your baby or child, Lifetime is here to help you find out more. Know that you have many choices and rights in making an open adoption plan, including choosing the adoptive family for your child and remaining in contact. If you have questions or need help now, please call or text Lifetime at 1-800-923-6784.
Those dreaming of adopting a baby or child into their home will find a wealth of information here at OpenAdoption.com. Wondering “what is open adoption?” or about open adoption vs. closed adoption? Take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions About Open Adoption page or our Adoption Articles page.
We’ve assisted many in realizing their dreams of starting or building their family via open adoption. If you have questions about how to start your journey towards adopting, feel free to visit Lifetime Adoption for more information or call (727) 493-0933.
Facing an Unplanned Pregnancy?
Thinking about Open Adoption for your Baby or Child?
For birth parents we offer confidentiality, guidance and encouragement during and after the adoption.
We care about what you want and need and have been helping birth families of all ages nationwide with their adoption plans for over 25 years.
You can view hopeful adoptive parents, and when you are interested in speaking to or emailing them, you can contact one of our qualified adoption coordinators. We work with birth parents to help them find just the right match in adoptive parents. We will help you make an adoption plan for your baby. Each coordinator is a caring woman who desires to help birth parents facing unplanned pregnancies with parenting choices or adoption. We have many resources to help and we never charge birth families for these services. Click here to view a current listing of waiting adoptive families.
What does open adoption mean for adoptive families?
Open adoption means raising your adopted child with honesty. It also means sharing that their birth family loved them enough to choose life and choose adoption for them. It means knowing your child’s birth family medical history when available, a very valuable asset in an adoption. And it means being proud adoptive parents. Treasuring your baby or child knowing you have been chosen to parent this little one for a lifetime.
Open adoption gives comfort to both birth parents and adoptive families in so many ways. For the child, the end result of an open adoption is that there are more people in their life to love them. Love is something we can never have too much of.
Open Adoption Information for Those Hoping to Adopt
What does open adoption mean for adoptive families?
Open adoption means raising your adopted child with honesty. It also means sharing that their birth family loved them enough to choose life and choose adoption for them. It means knowing your child’s birth family medical history when available, a very valuable asset in an adoption. And it means being proud adoptive parents. Treasuring your baby or child knowing you have been chosen to parent this little one for a lifetime.
Open adoption gives comfort to both birth parents and adoptive families in so many ways. For the child, the end result of an open adoption is that there are more people in their life to love them. Love is something we can never have too much of.
What is Open Adoption ?
Decades ago, closed adoptions were more commonly practiced, and adoption was more of a secret. Today, adoption is based on trust and an honest relationship between the adoptive parents and the birth parents. Open adoption is now based on trust and an honest relationship between the adoptive parents and the birth parents. The blessing of an open adoption is shared with children from their earliest days.
Women facing an unplanned pregnancy today have many choices with open adoption. Creating an open adoption plan involves the choice of personally choosing your child’s adoptive parents, meeting the adoptive family in person if you wish, deciding on the type of openness and the level of future contact you as a birth mother or birth parent wants.
We are seeing other members of the birth family becoming involved in the adoption plan process. This often includes the parents of the birth mother. Birth fathers are welcome to be as involved as they like, working with the birth mother on adoptive parent selection and decisions about degrees of openness for the adoption. Birth parents have many choices in developing the adoption plan.
Today, only about 25% of birth fathers are involved in the adoption planning process. However, this figure is growing as open adoption is becoming more requested and more women are choosing adoption for their babies and older children.
Please feel free to call or text the adoption answer line at 1-800 923-6784 to speak to an adoption coordinator. That line is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so you’ll always be able to have your adoption questions answered by a real person.
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Questions and Answers
(We protect the privacy of our Birth Parents and do not share their names)
We are so happy for this family, they are the SWEETEST!!! They have been through some really bad fall-throughs. This was a drop in the lap (1-week old) baby girl. In their same state, only 2 hours away. With the attorney they already had from a previous fall-through, no other legal fees had to be paid this time. The adoptive family also decided to keep the name the birth mom gave her baby….”Miah”
Here are a few nice messages from both adoptive family and birth mom.
From adoptive mom:
“We are just finishing up with the signing and are headed back home. Everything went perfectly! We are so overjoyed 💓Thank you so much for everything we appreciate you and the staff at lifetime!”
“Absolutely it’s couldn’t have been more perfect! It all was more than worth it…we are so grateful!”
From birth mom:
“Everything was great ! I really am satisfied with my choice of parents for my daughter. I know they are gonna love her and take great care of her.”
“I’m so thankful & glad. Thank you for your help throughout this process.”
Questions and Answers
What is Open Adoption?
Christian couples who hope to expand their families may have questions about open adoption. Read More…