Domestic Adoption




We provide the following services to Adoptive Families:

  • Orientation, assessment, and preparation of the prospective adoptive family
  • Education and support in pre-placement planning and services
  • Facilitation of birth parent and adoptive parent matching system
  • Preparation of legal documents and supervision of the placement, including post-placement court reports
  • Maintenance of records on the child study and family as required by state laws and licensing rules
  • Ongoing pre and post placement counseling and support to birth parents.

Embrace A Child
Many children today need adoptive homes. Adoptive families offer birthparents facing an unplanned pregnancy a way to choose life for their child. Through adoption these birthparents can give their child the security and nurturance of a stable two-parent family. Most of the children entrusted to Bethany for adoptive placement are infants and young children. Some are healthy children of Caucasian, African-American, Hispanic, Asian, or multi-ethnic heritage. Other children have special physical, mental, or emotional needs. They all need the love and guidance that caring, mature, adoptive parents can provide.

Enrich Your Family
Thousands of people who have adopted children through Bethany have found that adoption is a positive, practical way to build a family. Some people who come to Bethany are childless, while others simply would like more children in their family. By reaching out to a child who needs a home, adoptive families find their lives immeasurably enriched. They experience the intense satisfaction of giving a child a secure and loving home and watching that child grow and develop.

How Bethany Can Help
For more than 60 years Bethany has helped build families through adoption. Recognizing that adoption involves the emotions and expectations of many people, Bethany’s professional staff balance the needs of birthparents and adoptive parents. We assist birthparents who desire an active role in choosing their child’s adoptive parents. We help adoptive parents understand and prepare for adoption. Through the entire process we work to achieve our mutual goal of a secure placement in the best interest of the child. Bethany’s staff guides adoptive parents through all the steps of the adoption process and provides continuing support services following placement.

Domestic Adoption Plans at Bethany

Adoptive parents will work with their social worker to become educated on the different types of adoption plans. Birth parents will be matched with adoptive parents who desire a similar type of adoption plan.

On the continuum of openness, we encourage each adoption plan to be unique and specific to the needs of each member of the adoption triad, therefore there are many different types of adoption plans.

  • Open Adoption - allows an exchange of identifying information and includes visits or contact between adoptive family, child, and birth family
  • Semi-Open Adoption – allows an exchange of letters and pictures between , with Bethany facilitating this contact as long as you wish
  • Confidential Adoption – Birthparents and adoptive parents exchange only non-identifying information
  • Independent Adoption - You and the adoptive parents find each other on your own, and Bethany helps with counseling and legal arrangements

If you would like more information about our domestic infant adoption program, please contact us at 517.336.0191

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