adoption agencies
Child-matching services
Adoption agencies are organizations that facilitate the placement of children with adoptive families.
They may be public (government-run) or private, and handle tasks like matching children with prospective parents, conducting home studies, and managing legal paperwork.
They went through an adoption agency rather than pursuing a private adoption.
- kinship careRelatives raising displaced children
- social workersProfessionals helping struggling individuals
- legal guardianshipCourt-appointed care authority
- parental rightsLegal power over children
- background checksInvestigation of someone's past
child protection services · relinquishment · eligibility criteria · attachment theory · foster care · identity formation · custody agreements · court proceedings · home study · waiting children · case management · grief counseling · birth certificate · caseworker · family dynamics · paperwork · domestic · screening
- orphan careorphanages, orphans, foundlings, foster care, foster homes
- Social Programswelfare office, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, TANF, family allowances
- support servicestherapy, counseling, tutoring, mentoring, coaching
- adoptionadoptive parents, birth parents, adopted child, adoptive parent, birth parent
- Children's CharitiesSave the Children, UNICEF, Boys Town, St. Jude, Ronald McDonald House
- legal systemattorney, landmark cases, criminal cases, lawyers, legal precedents
adoption agenciesnatural conception
Pregnancy achieved without fertility treatment
biological parents · fertility clinics · birth parents · natural childbirth · procreation
adoption agencieschild protective services
Agency investigating abuse and neglect
adoption agenciesfoster care system
Temporary guardianship for displaced children