Adopting Babies

Adopting babies is something thousands of individuals choose to do every year. Whether it's the right choice for you to look overseas, domestically, independently or with the facilitation of an attorney depends on the adopter, state laws and the kind of lifestyle and family dynamic an adopter envisions.

There are hundreds of thousands of waiting adoptable children in the U.S. in the foster system alone. Likewise there are thousands of children abroad who could use a better life and stable family to raise them. The majority of these children are greater than two years old. This doesn't necessarily qualify them as infants or babies. There are hundreds of future birth mothers who choose to place their infants after birth as well, however, they are significantly less in numbers and are more difficult to place with because of the great demand of adoptive parents who plan on adopting babies.

Future birth mothers who choose to participate in the placement process, as well as case workers and facilitators, are looking for traditional adopters. Favored adopters tend to be young, married couples who will be first-time parents with the adoption placement.

Adopting babies can have expenses that stay as low as a few thousand dollars to well over $40,000. Adoptive couples will need to create an adoption profile, pass a home study and pay for a variety of services primarily used to counsel and care for the birth mother during the adoption process.